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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (43330)	9/17/2002 2:02:23 AM
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Another ploy.. Iraq accepts inspectors!!Unexpected support from Saudi Arabia for a UN-sanctioned attack against Iraq tightened the screws on Baghdad on Monday to comply with UN resolutions on weapons inspections. President Saddam Hussein chaired a third meeting of Iraq's top leadership in just 24 hours amid signs Baghdad was preparing its response to mounting diplomatic pressure for a climbdown to prevent a US-led war, sources reported on Tuesday. The latest meeting gathered Saddam's top aides -- Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan, vice-chairman of Iraq's ruling Revolutionary Command Council Ezzat Ibrahim, Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz, Baath Party command member Latif Nassif Jassem, Information Minister Muhammad Said al-Sahhaf and acting foreign minister Hammam Abdel Khaleq, the official INA news agency said. "The meeting focused on the current political situation which witnesses American threats against Iraq," the news agency said without elaborating. Britain cautious over Iraq weapons pledge LONDON: British Prime Minister Tony Blair's office Tuesday gave a cautious response to Iraq's pledge to readmit UN weapons inspectors without conditions, saying Saddam Hussein had a "long history of playing games". "Saddam's regime has a long history of playing games," a Downing Street spokeswoman told to foreign news agency, shortly after United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan announced Iraq had agreed to let the inspectors back into the country. "His regime has flouted a whole raft of (United Nations) resolutions. Let's see what they are offering," the spokeswoman added. Blair is the European leader who most strongly backs US President George W. Bush's hard line on Iraq, although his government has put more emphasis on reviving UN arms inspections than on Saddam's ouster. The White House dismissed Baghdad's offer as a "tactic that will fail" to prevent strong UN Security Council action to disarm Iraq.