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To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (32895)	12/16/1998 10:53:00 AM
From: Captain James T. Kirk	Respond to of 95453

All U.N. arms inspectors now out of Iraq - U.N. (Adds details, background, clarifies Cross remarks para 3) MANAMA, Dec 16 (Reuters) - All of the United Nations' international weapons inspectors evacuated abruptly from Iraq on Wednesday have now left the country, a U.N. official said. ''All UNSCOM staff are out of Baghdad,'' said Goran Wallen, chief of the U.N. Special Commission's field headquarters in Bahrain, after 92 inspectors and support staff flew to Manama from the Iraqi capital. UNSCOM spokeswoman Caroline Cross said earlier that all U.N. international staff were now out of Iraq, but U.N. officials explained later that she was referring only to UNSCOM personnel. Witnesses in Baghdad said around 40 U.N. humanitarian workers and dependents left U.N. headquarters in the city for Jordan after being told to evacuate. But border monitors employed by the United Nations from the Dutch firm Saybolt to check Iraqi oil exports remained at their posts, an industry source familiar with the company's operations said. The U.N. weapons inspectors left Iraq after issuing a critical report on Tuesday which Baghdad condemned as a pretext for Western military action. Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister, Tareq Aziz, said the report by UNSCOM chairman Richard Butler charging Iraq with obstructing the inspectors' disarmament work was ''ill-intentioned and in particular aimed at justifying American and British military aggression against Iraq.'' The United States and Britain have both warned Iraq that they could launch air strikes without warning if they judge it has reneged on a pledge -- which narrowly averted the threat of military action last month -- to comply fully with UNSCOM. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------