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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (19725)	4/20/1998 4:36:00 PM
From: Captain James T. Kirk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

U.S. faults Iraq on arms compliance Citing U.N. report, Washington says sanctions will remain REUTER WASHINGTON, April 20 - The United States on Monday accused Iraq of failing to cooperate with U.N. weapons inspectors despite an agreement with the United Nations that defused threats of a U.S. military attack. State Department spokesman James Rubin said a new report to the Security Council suggests the time was "far away" when tough U.N. sanctions on Iraq could be lifted. [</Site_Elements/complete_story.gif>] <#BODY> [</Site_Elements/dotblack.gif>] [</site_elements/RelatedLinks/lnk_Head_MSNBCCoverage.gif>] [Interactive: </Site_Elements/lnk_INTERACTIVES.gif>] Detectives of death: UNSCOM in Iraq <http://www.msnbc.com/modules/inspectors/default.htm> [Interactive: </Site_Elements/lnk_INTERACTIVES.gif>] Risks and rewards: Clinton's options in the Gulf <http://www.msnbc.com/modules/commander/default.asp> [</news/art/lnk_HEAD_Iraq.gif>] [</Site_Elements/dotblack.gif>] Iraqis `continue to lie and hide the truth regarding the existence of long-range ballistic missiles, VX and sarin chemical weapons and anthrax and other biological weapons.' - JAMES RUBIN U.S. State Department spokesman THE REPORT "PRESENTS CLEAR and disturbing evidence that Iraq has failed to cooperate in coming forward with the information needed to allow the United Nations to conclude Iraq has indeed destroyed the weapons it says it has destroyed," he said. The report by U.N. weapons inspectors last Friday made "the case that Iraq has not complied with U.N. Security Council resolutions in any area of substance," he told reporters. The United States was "especially disturbed" by non-compliance after last February's Iraq-U.N. memo of understanding, which ended the recent crisis with Baghdad and defused a threatened U.S. military strike, he said. Rubin said while Iraq may have complied with its promise to let U.N. inspectors examine Baghdad's presidential palaces, Iraqis "continue to lie and hide the truth regarding the existence of long-range ballistic missiles, VX and sarin chemical weapons and anthrax and other biological weapons." This "shows how far away they are from the time the U.N. could declare them in compliance with the relevant provisions of the relevant (U.N. Security Council) resolutions," he said. Last Friday, U.N. weapons inspectors said they made almost no progress over the past six months in verifying that Iraq had destroyed any remaining weapons of mass destruction, a key condition for lifting sanctions. Richard Butler, the chief arms inspector, said in a report to the Security Council that a series of crises when Iraq repeatedly disrupted the work of the inspectors had made it impossible for his experts to do their work. "A major consequence of the four-month crisis authored by Iraq has been that, in contrast with the prior reporting period, virtually no progress in verifying disarmament has been able to be reported," he said. As a result, he was no closer to giving Iraq a clean bill of health than when he issued his last major report in October. Security Council members planned to discuss the report this week. Clashes between the inspectors and Iraqi officials began in June and escalated in October. In February, Secretary-General Kofi Annan went to Baghdad to open up all sites to Butler's inspectors and prevent Iraq from banning searches altogether. Butler, chairman of the U.N. Special Commission (UNSCOM), must certify Iraq has no more ballistic, chemical or biological weapons before the Security Council can ease sweeping sanctions imposed on Iraq after it invaded Kuwait in August 1990. As if anticipating Butler's negative report, Iraq on Thursday warned of a new crisis if the embargo on oil exports were not lifted. Reuter contributed to this story. [</site_elements/clear.gif>] [Top 10 Voting: </site_elements/banbot_numbers.gif>] [</site_elements/banbot_swoop.gif>] [Logos: </site_elements/banbot_Logos98.gif>] Cover </news/default.asp> \| Quick News </news/summary.asp> \| News </news/news_front.asp> \| Business </news/com_front.asp> \| Sports </news/spt_front.asp> \| Local News </pfp/LocalJump.asp> \| Technology </news/tech_front.asp> \| Living & Travel </news/liv_front.asp> \| On Air </news/oa_front.asp> Opinions </news/op_front.asp> \| Weather </weather.asp> \| The Microsoft Network <http://free.msn.com/start/default.asp?campaign=0J2P-RS-2VJ0&sharedsite=www.msnbc.com> \| Find </find.asp> \| About MSNBC </aboutmsnbc.asp> \| Help </help.asp> \| Personal Toolkit </toolkit.asp> Write Us </feedback.asp> \| Index </news/contents.asp> \| Advertising on MSNBC </ad_benefits.asp> \| Terms, Conditions, and Privacy </cpyright.asp> [</site_elements/banbot_