1. And Murtha said most members of Congress agree that forcing Saddam to admit U.N. inspectors in suspected storage sites is well in the national interest. 2. Butler said the Iraqi Defense Ministry was among the sites to which inspectors were admitted, but gave few other details. 3. Iraq, which opposes continued supervision of oil sales and wants sanctions lifted without admitting arms inspectors, threatened again to cut off oil sales. 4. Annan negotiated an agreement with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to admit U.N. inspectors, accompanied by a team of diplomats. 5. At least four other inspectors were admitted, but the diplomats and U.N. official did not know their nationalities. 6. Baghdad has rejected a U.S. warning to admit the inspectors or face the consequences. 7. Butler said the inspections would go ahead as planned Monday, but they have been scrubbed for three straight days because Iraq refused to admit American inspectors. 8. Iraqis have apparently tampered with surveillance cameras and moved sensitive material out of view since it refused to admit American inspectors, a senior U.N. official said Wednesday. 9. On Friday, the Iraqis refused for a fifth straight day to admit American inspectors. 10. Saddam said he would not admit the inspectors, Anatolia reported, adding that the Iraqi leader called for the lifting of U.N. sanctions on his country. |
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