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To: Bazmataz who wrote (20407)	4/26/1998 10:20:00 AM
From: Captain James T. Kirk	Respond to of 95453

Thursday April 23 5:11 PM EDT Iraq: Sanctions Will Bring Heavy Price By Hassan Hafidh BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's cabinet said on Thursday its enemies would pay a heavy price if sanctions were maintained, the Iraqi news agency INA reported. A cabinet statement issued after a meeting headed by President Saddam Hussein and carried by the agency said a "new state of affairs" would be created if the embargo was kept on. "The world now has two options - either to lift the embargo or maintain it," INA quoted the cabinet statement as saying. "The first will lead to some sort of relationship, understanding, and cooperation, while the second will lead to a new state of affairs. Iraq has been under trade sanctions imposed by the United Nations since its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The statement did not say what the new situation would be but it recalled a statement issued by the Revolutionary Command Council a week ago in which it warned there could be a new crisis if the embargo dragged on. "Iraq has offered all it has, or in fact it has offered things impossible for the Iraqi mind to accept in order to give an additional chance to its partners in the world to boost the just position pertaining to the embargo imposed against Iraq," it said. The U.S. has threatened to strike Iraq if it continues to bar UNSCOM inspectors access to all sites in Iraq, including eight so-called presidential sites. A February deal with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan defused the crisis and averted a military strike but U.S. forces remain in the Gulf. The statement accused the United States and U.N. chief weapons inspector Richard Butler of working to prevent the economic sanctions against Iraq from being lifted. "The aim of the U.S. attempts is to maintain the embargo on the Iraqi people in order to facilitate its conspiratorial mission against the world, the Arab countries, and the Middle East," INA reported. "We have no alternative but to make our enemy feel that it has to pay a heavy price if it decides to maintain the embargo on our people," the statement said. The U.N. inspectors, accompanied by 20 senior diplomats, concluded earlier this month the first round of inspections of the presidential compounds. Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz on Wednesday accused Butler of being a U.S. "agent" over his latest report stating that no progress had been made in the past six months in scrapping Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Aziz, addressing a conference in Baghdad of Arab Labor Unions, also urged Arab states collectively to break the U.N. trade embargo. Aziz was reacting to a report by the U.N. Special Commission (UNSCOM) chief on Friday that Iraq's repeated disruption of the work of inspectors made it impossible for his experts to work in Iraq. In the report to be debated by the Security Council early next week, Butler stated that "virtually no progress" was made in the last six months in verifying that Iraq has destroyed its weapons of mass destruction. I THINK IRAQ SHOULD BE GLAD THAT MY FINGER IS NOT ON THE BUTTON, or THEY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE ANY COMMENTS. I SEE MORE THAN SUMMER HEAT AHEAD. WILL THEY PULL ONE OVER ON THE U.S. AGAIN ?