1. An end to the disarmament phase of nuclear accounting in Iraq would still leave the atomic energy agency with considerable powers to inspect any suspect Iraqi sites. 2. After all, the intelligence community has a long list of suspect sites it would love to see north of the DMZ. 3. Butler repeated Security Council calls for unfettered access to all suspect sites. 4. He cited a report Saturday from the leader of the U.N. inspection team, Richard Butler, that Baghdad continues to block access to suspect sites. 5. Iraq repeatedly blocked UNSCOM from inspecting suspect sites. 6. Last year it began excavations for what appeared to be a new reprocessing plant and then demanded increased food assistance for allowing inspection of the suspect site. 7. Lately, the Iraqis have been putting many suspect sites off-limits, even though this has further stalled efforts to complete the investigation. 8. President Clinton issued his own new warning to Iraq on Friday to give U.N. weapons inspectors access to all suspect sites or face military strikes. 9. The break came when the Iraqis stopped a team of biological arms experts from visiting a suspect site because one of the experts was an American. 10. The report credits Iraq with opening access to all suspect sites since June and helping to inventory and tag equipment to prevent its diversion to weapons work. |