1. After the vote, President Clinton repeated that threat, warning Iraq against blocking the inspectors from carrying out their work. 2. By blocking the inspectors, she said, the cease-fire resolution was automatically suspended. 3. By last month, Saddam was again blocking weapons inspectors at eight large sites. 4. Iraq has blocked the inspectors from entering the facilities, which are suspected repositories for chemical, biological and nuclear weapons research and components. 5. Iraqis blocked U.N. inspectors five times in the last three weeks as they searched for biological weapons there, he said. 6. On Friday, Iraqi guards blocked U.N. inspectors from entering the Ministry of Irrigation. 7. Russia had submitted its own resolution condemning Iraq for blocking U.N. inspectors, but without any punitive measures. 8. That paragraph calls on Unscom to draw up a list of Iraqi individuals guilty of blocking weapons inspectors from carrying out their mandate. 9. Only two months ago, the inspectors were blocked from entering sensitive sites, and Butler had given a string of media interviews criticizing Iraq. 10. Baghdad has blocked inspectors from gaining access to eight so-called presidential sites, arguing they represent symbols of Iraqi sovereignty. |