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To: epsteinbd who wrote (2935)	11/12/2002 5:59:37 PM
From: calgal	Respond to of 8683

Bush Warns Saddam to Obey U.N. Plan 1 hour, 47 minutes ago URL:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=542&ncid=71... By BARRY SCHWEID, AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - With a deadline days away, President Bush (news - web sites) warned Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) on Tuesday that "there's no more time" and he must obey a U.N. demand to disarm Iraq. If Saddam should ignore the ultimatum, "We will lead a coalition to disarm him," Bush said. "The man must disarm. He said he would disarm; he now must disarm." "This kind of deception and delay — all that is over with," the president said. In renewing his warning about forcibly disarming Iraq, Bush scoffed at the Iraqi parliament's recommendation that the unanimous resolution adopted last week by the U.N. Security Council should be rejected. Bush called the assembly in Baghdad "nothing but a rubber stamp for Saddam Hussein," and White House spokesmen said only the Iraqi president could decide whether to cooperate with the United Nations (news - web sites). Even with the tough rhetoric, Bush administration officials were keeping their options open on what the response to might be if Saddam were to reject the U.N. deadline. Some of the president's advisers consider rejection a trigger for U.S. action, but others were not certain, White House officials said on condition of anonymity. The U.N. resolution does not deal specifically with consequences should Iraq say no, they said. Iraq also is stockpiling supplies of antidotes to nerve agents, suggesting Saddam is trying to protect his armies if he uses such weapons on the battlefield, a Bush administration official said Tuesday, also speaking on condition of anonymity. Iraq has imported significant quantities of the antidotes atropine and obidoxime chloride during the past two years, the official said, supporting a report Tuesday in The New York Times. The administration is trying to stop future deliveries of the antidotes, but sanctions rules do not restrict them. Some of the imports have come from Turkey, a NATO (news - web sites) ally supporting sanctions-enforcement flights over Iraq. "We have talked to Turkey about procurements by Iraq," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said. He said acquisition by Iraq of great quantities of antidote could indicate an intention to use chemical weapons. Boucher said he could not confirm the report that Turkey was selling atropine to Iraq, and Turkish officials said in Ankara they had no knowledge of such transactions. Gen. Tommy Franks, who would command any U.S. military action in Iraq, said Tuesday it was up to Saddam whether Iraq's disarmament would be voluntary or forced by the U.S. military. Franks said the military is methodically preparing for the possibility of war. "We won't be quick. We will be prudent," Franks said. "The president of the United States has not made a decision to go to war in Iraq," the general said at a luncheon in Florida. "The president of the United States has made a decision that a continuation of cheat, retreat, fail to abide by Security Council resolutions ... will not stand." Behind the scenes, Bush has approved tentative Pentagon (news - web sites) plans for invading Iraq should a new U.N. arms inspection effort fail to rid the nation of weapons of mass destruction. On the diplomatic front, Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) are conferring on a potential showdown with Iraq. Annan, at a news conference in New York before going to Washington, said he was hoping for a positive response from Baghdad. For Annan, how Iraq responds to the Security Council resolution is a test of the effectiveness of the United Nations. U.N. chief inspector Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei of the International Atomic Energy Agency will take on the twin tasks of hunting for hidden chemical and biological weapons and for a nuclear weapons program. They will set the pace of the search and could set the stage for war with Iraq if the inspectors conclude Iraq is concealing weapons. Rolf Ekeus, the Swedish diplomat who led U.N. inspections after the 1991 Persian Gulf War (news - web sites), questioned whether the 60 days set aside by the Security Council — Dec. 23 until Feb. 21 — would be enough time to discover hidden weapons. "I think the inspectors can find all the weapons," Ekeus said Tuesday at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, "but it will take considerable time." In 60 days "nothing substantially will be found," Ekeus said at forum held by the private research group. "It might take two years." The State Department's Boucher agreed that it would take "a very long time" to verify that Iraq had been disarmed. But he said Saddam's intentions should become clear fairly quickly. After Friday's deadline for Iraq to promise cooperation, Iraq would be required to list all parts of its chemical, biological and nascent nuclear weapons program by Dec. 8. Weapons inspectors would have until Dec. 23 to resume their search for the first time in four years.

To: epsteinbd who wrote (2935)	11/12/2002 6:01:05 PM
From: calgal	Respond to of 8683

Agreement Reached on Security Bill 25 minutes ago URL:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=512&ncid=716&e=3&u=/ap/20021112/ap_on_go_co/congress_lame_duck By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House and congressional leaders agreed Tuesday to begin pushing a bill to create a Homeland Security Department through Congress this week, moving toward a major legislative victory for President Bush (news - web sites). AP Photo Congress Freshmen Learn D.C. Ways (AP Video) Officials said the Republican-run House could approve the measure as early as Wednesday while the Democratic-controlled Senate would begin debating it the same day. Possible procedural delays by Senate opponents could delay final passage there until next week. Either way, approval would give the president one of the key parts of his plan for responding to last year's terrorist attacks. It would also suggest the political muscle he gained from last week's Election Day wins by congressional Republicans. According to a description circulating on Capitol Hill, the measure would include a provision allowing airline pilots to be armed in cockpits. Initial versions of similar legislation have already passed both the House and Senate, but the two chambers have not finished a compromise bill. The overall legislation would include language taking a small step to address complaints by Senate Democrats that the new agency's 170,000 workers would lack sufficient job protection. It would require the department to negotiate any workplace changes with the employees' union and require federal mediation if no agreement was reached. But in the end, the department could make whatever changes it wanted — flexibility that administration officials have argued they will need.

To: epsteinbd who wrote (2935)	11/12/2002 7:50:10 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 8683

In this new tape, he says he wants to kill more Israeli's, and he praises the efforts naming the recent terrorist attacks around the world, he also mentions the hostage incident in Russia... his voice is weak, but it sounds authentic... he's probably very sick and in the final stages of renal disease, but he can't get his own dialysis machine without it being traced directly to him... he's probably so jaundiced that he looks yellow... a yellow skin in Islam means the gods have turned against him, this would be very bad for his campaign, so he only sent an audio tape... GZ