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To: Tulvio Durand who wrote (10000)	1/28/1998 2:16:00 PM
From: Teddy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

OT Iraq 11:36 AM ET January 28, 1998 CIA Says Iraq Hiding Deadly Weapons WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The Central Intelligence Agency has concluded that Iraq is continuing to hide deadly weapons-production gear and material from United Nations inspectors, CIA Director George Tenet told Congress Wednesday. "We assess that Iraq continues to hide critical WMD (weapons of mass destruction) production equipment and material from U.N. inspectors," he said in a prepared statement to the Senate Intelligence Committee. "Iraq, under (President) Saddam (Hussein), continues to pose a serious threat to U.S. forces, interests and allies," Tenet told the panel's annual hearing on current and projected national security threats. "Our principal aim must be to ensure that Saddam does not have weapons of mass destruction or the capacity to regain any he has lost" since the U.S.-led coalition drove Iraq from Kuwait in the 1991 Gulf War, he added. The CIA assessment of the perceived Iraqi threat squared with warnings from the United States that it was preparing to use military force unless Iraq complies with U.N. Security Council efforts to scrap any hidden nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs. "While its military forces continue to slowly deteriorate under U.N. sanctions and the arms embargo implemented after the Gulf War, Iraq remains an abiding threat to internal oppositionists and smaller regional neighbors," Tenet said.