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Saturday, January 2, 1999 Published at 17:37 GMT


Iraqis ready to 'rip apart' UN teams

Iraq has renewed its attack on the UN arms inspectors, warning that Iraqis could "rip apart" any inspection team that attempted to enter their territory. The following are excerpts from a commentary by Iraqi state radio.

A person may ask: "Why has the UN Security Council not yet reached a decision on or come up with a result from the talks, which have been going on for days, regarding Iraq and its issue, as they call it?"

The real answer - which is known by all and which the Security Council does not want to know - is that Unscom's military operations, which were carried out by the US-British troops, have ended the embargo, the inspection and even the no-fly zones.

These objectives were achieved - without the knowledge of Blair and Clinton - when they announced that the mission was over and that the objectives have been achieved.

In the context of the saying that something bad might produce something good, all the Iraqis believe that there will be no return to the inspection teams ... He who does not know the Iraqis will not know that the Iraqis can rip apart these teams if they attempt to step on Iraq's soil.

'Flying ravens'

If the airspace can protect their flying ravens, the Arab and international masses can put pressure on this council, which has become a US tool in the hand of a cowboy.

These masses can put pressure on the Security Council to stop all violations, which encroach upon and undermine Iraq's sovereignty.

The Iraqi and Arab political parties and masses stand in one trench as a result of the anger and wrath caused by the unjust missiles, particularly since the anger of a patient person is sharper than a sword, in fact, stronger than all wars .

The Security Council, therefore, cannot say that the sanctions will not be lifted, because, under the current circumstances, they can be lifted by one party and by countries that were disregarded by the United States when it took its unilateral war decision against Iraq.

Also, the Security Council cannot return the inspection teams because their military operations ended with the bombing of peaceful Iraqi cities.

It also cannot agree on the continuation of the no-fly zones, which the Security Council did not make any decision on in the first place.

Therefore, the Security Council is revolving in the whirlpool of US injustice and Iraqi rights.

Eventually, the people will certainly triumph.

BBC Monitoring (http://www.monitor.bbc.co.uk), based in Caversham in southern England, selects and translates information from radio, television, press, news agencies and the Internet from 150 countries in more than 70 languages.



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