UN inspectors must return to Iraq: Russia

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.hipakistan.com/en/detail.php?newsId=en44160&F_catID=&f_type=source

MOSCOW: Russia, a staunch opponent of the US-led war in Iraq, said on Wednesday international inspectors must be allowed to hunt for the banned weapons Washington cited as the key reason to depose Saddam Hussein.

The call echoed comments by Mohammed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), whose inspectors found no evidence of illegal weapons in Iraq before US-led forces invaded the oil-rich country.

UN Inspectors, who were pulled out on the eve of the invasion in March, have not been admitted to Iraq since.

"The question of Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) cannot finally be closed, while UNMOVIC (monitoring agency) and the IAEA have not reported, as is required in Security Council resolutions, that WMD and the means of their delivery are absent," a foreign ministry statement said.
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But... Pooty-poot's Dubya's Buddy?

[Laughing Mirror]

1. US was banking on this "issue" being swept under the rug

but the powerful Russian, German and French vacuum cleaners will keep sucking it out until a way is found to dispose of it properly and in a timely manner