21.   We will not allow Iraq to threaten its neighbors or to intimidate the United Nations as it insures that Iraq never again possesses weapons of mass destruction.

22.   American forces fired automatic weapons and artillery rounds during desert war games Friday designed to send a message to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein not to threaten his neighbors again.

23.   British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said Friday that international sanctions against Iraq must be maintained to prevent Saddam Hussein from rebuilding his military and threatening his neighbors.

24.   Despite the bombing, no one expects Saddam to throw up his hands and give in to demands that he stop threatening his neighbors and persecuting Iraqi Kurds.

25.   That would help the United Nations determine whether Iraq has lived up to demands that it destroy missiles capable of threatening its neighbors.

26.   The subtle shift does not mean that the international community would stand by in the face of an egregious Iraqi action, such as threatening its neighbors.

27.   The targets chosen, therefore, are targets connected with his military capability, his weapons of mass destruction capacity and his ability to threaten his neighbors.

28.   The United States, however, sees sanctions as key to preventing the Iraqi government from threatening its neighbors.

29.   He also reiterated that the United States would be ready to strike should Iraq threaten its neighbors again.

30.   Clinton earlier told cheering soldiers in the northern Kuwaiti desert that Iraq would never again be allowed to threaten its neighbors.