IRAQ: IRAQ HAS SAID THAT ALTHOUGH IT ACCEPTED UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION 1441 AND THE RETURN OF INSPECTORS THE AMERICANS WERE STILL AMASSING TROOPS IN THE ARAB GULF

Record ID: 338270

  • Title: IRAQ: IRAQ HAS SAID THAT ALTHOUGH IT ACCEPTED UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION 1441 AND THE RETURN OF INSPECTORS THE AMERICANS WERE STILL AMASSING TROOPS IN THE ARAB GULF
  • Date: 21st January 2003
  • Summary: (W4) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JANUARY 21, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV VICE-PRESIDENT TAHA YASSEN RAMADAN HEADING TO MEET A GATHERING FOR ARAB TEACHERS 0.07 2. SLV OF THE ARAB TEACHERS GATHERING CHANTING, "WITH SOUL AND BLOOD, WE SACRIFICE FOR YOU IRAQ" 0.10 3. MCU/LV RAMADAN AT THE ARAB TREACHERS GATHERING 0.18 4. MCU (Arabic) RAMADAN SAYING: "In spite of our acceptance to deal with the resolution 1441 and our acceptance of the return of inspectors, we are not convinced that this prevent the aggression, we know well the virulent American-Zionist intentions." 0.36 5. SV CAMERAMEN 0.38 6. MCU (Arabic) RAMADAN SAYING: "It is up to the international community to ask the United States why there is such a build-up and beating drums of war, you said if Iraq accepted the return of inspectors there would be no aggression, either the inspectors or aggression. Iraq accepted the resolution 1441 and cooperated with the inspectors, but the build-up and beating drums of war has not changed, this is the responsibility of the international community to ask the United States, why such build-up. Masses all over the world and European areas start saying this and responding America why such drums of war." 1.09 7. SV REPORTERS 1.13 8. MCU (Arabic) RAMADAN SAYING: "The aggression will take place at any moment, they are not caring for the inspectors, the American administration doesn't pay attention to its agents (in the region) nor its clients, they are the cheapest for them." 1.29 9. SV CAMERAMEN, RAMADAN LEAVING (2 SHOTS) 1.40 10. SV IRAQI WOMEN CHANTING BEFORE THE UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP) 1.45 11. CU WOMEN DEMONSTRATORS CHANTING ANTI-AMERICA AND WAR SLOGANS 1.48 12. CU SIGN SAYING:"UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME, UNDP" 1.51 13. SV EXTERIOR OF THE UNDP BUILDING AND UN FLAG 1.55 14. MCU WOMEN RAISING BANNERS CONDEMNING THREATS 1.59 15. SV WOMEN CHANTING "WE WILL NEVER GIVE UP NEITHER IRAQ NOR SADDAM" (2 SHOTS) 2.10 16. SLV U.N. HEADQUARTERS 2.13 17. SLV/SV WEAPONS INSPECTORS PREPARING TO START ANOTHER DAY OF INSPECTION (5 SHOTS) 2.44 18. SV GUARD 2.47 19. SLV INSPECTORS' CARS HEADING FOR THEIR DESTINATION (2 SHOTS) 3.05 (W4) ASKANDIRIYA 70KM SOUTH OF BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JANUARY 21, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 20. SLV GUARD AT AL-MU'TASIM PLANT BELONGING TO THE MILITARY INDUSTRIALIZATION COMMISSION 3.09 21. SLV GUARDS CLOSING THE DOOR 3.14 22. LV OF INSPECTORS CAR 3.18 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 5th February 2003 12:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA1BRNSRY0VM60HGWEJVJVZAC5N
  • Story Text: Iraq has said that although it accepted United Nations
    resolution 1441 and the return of inspectors, the Americans
    were still beating drums of war and amassing troops in the
    Arab Gulf.

    U.N. weapons inspectors continued their work a day after
    the visit to Iraq by Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix
    and U.N. nuclear agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei.



    Iraqi Vice-President Taha Yassen Ramadan lashed out at
    the United States on Tuesday (January 21).

    "In spite of our acceptance to deal with the resolution
    1441 and our acceptance of the return of inspectors, we are
    not convinced that this prevent the aggression, we know well
    the virulent American-Zionist intentions," he said to a
    delegation of Arab teachers.

    Since the United States started its build-up of troops in
    the Arab Gulf, Iraq has been witnessing visits made by many
    delegations coming to voice solidarity with the people of
    Iraq, one of the visiting delegations are the Arab teachers.

    "It is up to the international community to ask the United
    States why there is such a build-up and beating drums of war,
    you said if Iraq accepted the return of inspectors there would
    be no aggression, either the inspectors or aggression. Iraq
    accepted the resolution 1441 and cooperated with the
    inspectors, but the build-up and beating drums of war has not
    changed, this is the responsibility of the international
    community to ask the United States, why such build-up. Masses
    all over the world and European areas start saying this and
    responding America why such drums of war," the vice president
    said.

    "The aggression will take place at any moment, they are
    not caring for the inspectors, the American administration
    doesn't pay attention to its agents (in the region) nor its
    clients, they are the cheapest for them," he added.

    Meanwhile Iraqi women took to the streets in the downtown
    of Baghdad, and marched towards the United Nations Development
    Programme (UNDP), chanting anti-war slogans and voicing
    support to President Saddam Hussein.

    Dozens of U.N. arms experts combed more Iraqi sites for
    possible biological, chemical and nuclear weapons on Tuesday,
    while Washington and London continued with plans to launch war
    against Iraq.

    Experts from the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and
    Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and the International Atomic
    Energy Agency (IAEA) drove to at least nine sites from south
    to north of Iraq, Iraqi officials said.

    An UNMOVIC biological team visited an agricultural college
    at Abu Ghraib 17 km (10 miles) northwest of Baghdad. Another
    team searched a nearby agriculture research centre. Missile
    teams went to the al-Mu'tasim facility, a missile plant 70 km
    (42 miles) southwest of Baghdad and al-Amiriya in Fallujah.

    A chemical team visited al-Qaqaa facility which belongs to
    the Iraqi Military Industrialisation Commission.

    An IAEA team headed to the southern city of Basra while
    another went to the al-Tuweitha compound, the main site of
    former Iraqi nuclear programmes. A multi-disciplinary team
    went to undisclosed sites in Basra.

    In Mosul, 375 km (225 miles) north of Baghdad, the
    inspectors visited a private factory for producing building
    plaster. The inspectors maintain a base in Mosul.


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