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Iraq says it has neutralised UN Resolution 1441 on disarmament
Baghdad, Jan 05: An official Iraqi newspaper said today that Baghdad had succeeded in neutralising UN Resolution 1441 on disarmament and proving to the world it has no weapons of mass destruction.
Baghdad, Jan 05: An official Iraqi newspaper said today that Baghdad had succeeded in neutralising UN Resolution 1441 on disarmament and proving to the world it has no weapons of mass destruction.
Iraq has "pulled the teeth of Resolution 1441, neutralising it by being credible and giving assurances," ‘al-Iraq’ said. "Baghdad never feared the UN inspection teams and has proved to the world that it was saying the truth" about alleged prohibited weapons programmes, it said.
The paper, in reference to cooperation between Iraqi authorities and UN arms experts, denounced statements by US President George W Bush on the potential danger Iraq still posed for the world.
"We do not see and the world does not see any type of anger Iraq could pose to the world," it said, saying that Bush's words reflected the "state of confusion in which his administration finds itself after its and Britain's bets have been shown to be losing ones."
Ath-Thawra, mouthpiece of the ruling Baath Party in baghdad, blasted as a "hysterical campaign" statements by Bush that the United States was ready to attack Iraq if it did not disarm. The daily also expressed surprise at the UN Security Council's silence over "us threats against Iraq and the deployment of us forces in the region that threaten the whole Arab world."
Al-Qadissiya, for its part, accused Bush of "stupidity and having hallucinations," dubbing as contradictory the American president's claims that a war would harm the US economy but his insistence that Iraq was a threat to his country.
Bureau Report
Iraq has "pulled the teeth of Resolution 1441, neutralising it by being credible and giving assurances," ‘al-Iraq’ said. "Baghdad never feared the UN inspection teams and has proved to the world that it was saying the truth" about alleged prohibited weapons programmes, it said.
The paper, in reference to cooperation between Iraqi authorities and UN arms experts, denounced statements by US President George W Bush on the potential danger Iraq still posed for the world.
"We do not see and the world does not see any type of anger Iraq could pose to the world," it said, saying that Bush's words reflected the "state of confusion in which his administration finds itself after its and Britain's bets have been shown to be losing ones."
Ath-Thawra, mouthpiece of the ruling Baath Party in baghdad, blasted as a "hysterical campaign" statements by Bush that the United States was ready to attack Iraq if it did not disarm. The daily also expressed surprise at the UN Security Council's silence over "us threats against Iraq and the deployment of us forces in the region that threaten the whole Arab world."
Al-Qadissiya, for its part, accused Bush of "stupidity and having hallucinations," dubbing as contradictory the American president's claims that a war would harm the US economy but his insistence that Iraq was a threat to his country.
Bureau Report