Friday, January 3, 2003 Posted: 2:43 AM EST (0743 GMT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The director of Iraq's monitoring agency has said five weeks of U.N. inspections prove that Iraq is credible in its declaration that it no longer has weapons of mass destruction.
The inspections have been "intrusive and surprising," said Gen. Hossam Mohammed Amin, who heads Iraq's National Monitoring Directorate, the agency that cooperates with the United Nations in assessing the country's inventory of weapons programs.
"All those activities prove that the Iraqi declarations are credible and the American allegations are baseless," Amin said Thursday. "They are lying for political reasons."
Amin said the inspectors found no prohibited activities or items in the 230 sites they have visited so far.
"We hope that this is a start point [to] think correctly and give the Iraqi people their rights to live without embargo, without sanctions," he said.
So... if no weapons are found? What's Bush's next move? A stealth attack on Saudi Arabia ~ blaming Iraq? A biological attack in the US ~ blaming Iraq? Fabricate a false alliance between Iraq and North Korea ~ attack them both... because of the known unknowns?
Bets will be taken for 25 days, or until all hell breaks loose.
Report due January 27
Looks like it's nearly time for Bush to play his ace.
What could it be?
The only sure thing is that there will be fullscale physical war with Iraq. A country that's going down the shitter economically cannot and would not invest this much time and money into something without an anticipated profit. They're going in no matter what, and they won't be coming away empty handed.
Obviously Saddam knows these things aswell. He has worked closely with these guys in the past. He knows how they operate. So can can only assume that he is jumping through their hoops for as long as he can, to give himself time to prepare.
