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Iraqi Press Blasts U.S. Over Military 'Threats' BAGHDAD - Iraqi newspapers Sunday blasted suggestions that the United States might target
Iraq in its war against terrorism and said
Washington itself was a threat to world
stability.
The official al-Qadissiya newspaper condemned
``U.S. threats against the so-called rogue nations''
which include Iraq.
``The Americans have once again repeated their threats ... American officials have repeatedly
threatened Iraq and other nations saying that
these countries threaten their stability, while
Washington is the one which threatens world
stability,'' it added.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Burns said on Saturday the United States had yet to
decide whether to use military force against Iraq
and that Washington planned to discuss the issue
with its allies from the 1991 Gulf War.
Speculation has intensified that the United States could start a new phase in its war on terrorism
after Afghanistan by attacking such countries as
Somalia, Iraq or Sudan.
Iraq, which is on a U.S. list of states sponsoring terrorism, denies any links to international terrorism.
President Bush recently warned that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein would ``find out'' the consequences
if he did not allow the return to Baghdad of United
Nations weapons inspectors, triggering speculation
that Iraq might be the next target of U.S. forces.
The ruling Baath party newspaper al-Thawra said Washington wanted to use the issue of weapons
inspectors as a pretext to attack Iraq.
``Accusations by U.S. officials that Iraq is developing weapons of mass destruction are false
and aim at achieving other goals,'' the paper said
in a front-page editorial.
The U.N. inspectors left Iraq in December 1998, shortly before a U.S.-British bombing campaign,
and have not been allowed to return since.
Iraq, still under international sanctions over its 1990 invasion of Kuwait, says it has no weapons of
mass destruction and wants a complete end to the U.N.
embargo.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri did not answer a question posed by Iraqi television Saturday night on
whether Iraq would allow the inspectors to resume work.
Sabri was quoted by the pan-Arab al-Hayat newspaper on Wednesday as saying that his government was studying a
Russian proposal to allow the inspectors back in return
for suspending U.N. sanctions and gradually lifting them.
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