Saturday, December 07, 2002

Inspectors Angered by US Claims Over Iraqi Weapons
"Demetrius Perricos, the Greek head of the team searching Iraq for chemical and biological weapons, strongly rejected American attempts to dictate the pace and style of inspections. Frustrated White House officials had marked the end of the first week of the new inspection regime, which has uncovered next to nothing, by calling for more intrusive inspections. But Mr Perricos retorted: ?The people who sent us here are the international community, the United Nations. We?re not serving the US. We?re not serving the UK. We?re not serving any individual nation.? Breaching protocol, which dictates that UN officials should remain non-political, he also challenged the Bush Administration to share its intelligence if it wanted the inspectors to uncover banned weapons."

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