February 11, 2000

IRAQI LEADER: NO WEAPONS INSPECTION TEAM ALLOWED

     Iraq will not allow a United Nations weapons inspection team into the country to start disarmament activities, a top Iraqi leader said Thursday. “There shall be no return of the so-called inspection teams. We reject the infiltration by spies using such cover,” the official Iraqi News Agency quoted Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan as telling a visiting Russian envoy...

USA TODAY