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To: Starlight who wrote (31565)	11/6/1998 4:32:00 PM
From: Captain James T. Kirk	Respond to of 95453

Iraq Criticizes U.S. Threats By WAIEL FALEH Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - An influential Iraqi newspaper on Friday accused the Clinton administration of knowing ''nothing but the language of threats,'' and pledged the country would defend itself against attack. The editorial in Al-Thawra, which is published by President Saddam Hussein's ruling Baath Party, came after the U.N. Security Council voted Thursday night to demand that Iraq resume cooperation with U.N. weapons inspectors. The United Nations must certify that Iraq has dismantled all weapons of mass destruction before trade sanctions - imposed after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait - can be lifted. But the vote left the council still divided on whether to authorize military force to ensure Saddam complies. President Clinton has said that ''no options are off the table,'' suggesting the United States had not ruled out military action to try to force Iraq to cooperate. But Russia reiterated Friday that attempts to use force would lead to ''most unpredictable consequences,'' and expressed hope that Iraq would let weapons inspectors resume their work. The Foreign Ministry warned in a statement that any armed actions against Iraq are ''fraught with most unpredictable consequences for peace and stability in the region and in the Middle East as a whole.'' Iraq announced last Saturday that it would no longer work with the U.N. Special Commission, which oversees the destruction of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons as well as long-range missiles. Al-Thawra said in a front-page editorial Friday that the administration ''knows nothing but the language of threats. ... We are fully ready for any fight and any sacrifice.'' Iraq's vow of non-cooperation came after the United Nations pledged to review Iraq's compliance with U.N. arms inspectors but failed to guarantee that the punishing sanctions would be lifted.