Den første meldinga nedanfor hevdar at siste advarsel er overlevert til
Irak, med 3 vekers frist.
Nedanfor denne følger ei AFP-melding frå i dag, der powell hintar om at
Irak er neste mål. Og som også kan fortelje at 80% av folket i USA
innbiller seg at dette ville vere "effektivt" i kampen mot terrorismen.
Asgeir Bjørkedal
Final US ultimate warning to Iraq
Iraq-USA, Politics, 11/5/2001
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/011105/2001110505.html
The Kuwaiti daily al-Seyash issued on Sunday quoted sources at the British
house of commons as saying that the British prime minister Tony Blair asked
the Jordanian King Abdullah II during his visit to Amman to convey a final
warning from the US administration to Iraq on the need of accepting the
return back of the UN inspectors to Baghdad within three weeks, otherwise
the next station of the war against terrorism after Afghanistan will be Iraq.
The sources indicated that Iraq was told about the warning through an envoy
in the Jordanian royal court.
The sources also told the paper about information reported from Moscow
that the Russian foreign minister Igore Ivanov conveyed to the Russian
administration following his meeting with the US secretary of state Colin
Powell about a conviction formed within himself that a British- American
attacks at Baghdad has become very near.
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US could turn attention to Iraq after
Afghanistan: Powell
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/011108/1/1puwx.html
US Secretary of State Colin Powell has warned the United States
could turn its
attention to Iraq after achieving the goals of its military campaign
in Afghanistan.
"We must end Osama bin Laden's terrorist threat to the world, and
deal with the
Taliban regime, who has given them haven," Powell told reporters
Wednesday,
after talks with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Shaykh Sabah al-Hamad Al
Sabah.
He said that after the goals of Operation Enduring Freedom are
achieved, the
United States will turn its attention to terrorism throughout the world.
"And nations such as Iraq, which have tried to pursue weapons of mass
destruction, should not think that we will not be concerned about
these activities,
and will not turn our attention to them," Powell pointed out.
An opinion poll by Zogby International revealed Wednesday that 80
percent of
Americans believed that launching military strikes against Iraq and
removing Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein from power would be an effective move in
the war
against terrorism declared by President George W. Bush.
Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz was quoted Sunday by a Lebanese
newspaper as saying that Kuwait had always been a part of Iraq.
But Powell dismissed the remarks as inconsequential.
"Well, Mr. Tareq Aziz has been making these rather ridiculous and
threatening
statements for many years, so I take them all with a grain of salt,"
the secretary of
state said.
The Bush administration has been under increased pressure from
Republicans in
Congress to move against Iraq in the wake of the September 11
attacks, even
though administration officials have repeatedly said there is no
credible evidence
implicating Baghdad in the terrorist act.
Late last month, Aziz told The Sunday Telegraph of London that the
United States
and Britain planned to launch 1,000 missiles at 300 Iraqi targets in
a bid to topple
Saddam Hussein under the pretext of waging war against terrorism.
British officials have denied the charge.
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