April 02, 1999
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| The Koreas Former chief UN inspector says Iraq no longer a threat Baghdad - The former chief United Nations weapons inspector, Scott Ritter, said Iraq has already been disarmed and no longer poses a threat to its Persian Gulfneighbors, reported the Saudi-owned, London-based Arabic language newspaper Al-Hayat. Ritter, who quit in August after saying the UN and U.S. President Bill Clinton had stymied his disarmament efforts, said Iraq does not have factories producing chemical or biological weapons and added that they have all been destroyed. The former U.S. marine said the UN Security Council should lift the economic sanctions imposed on Iraq since its invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the report said. Economic sanctions against Iraq can't be lifted until the UN verifies the country is free of weapons of mass destruction, although UN weapons inspectors have been banned from the country since U.S.-led air strikes against Iraq in December. (Bloomberg/Al Hayat) | |||||||||
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