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The game is over, Bush tells Iraq Washington, February 7 “No doubt he will play a last-minute game of deception. The game is over,” Mr Bush said in a statement at the White House. He said Saddam Hussein had made Iraq into a prison, poison factory, and a torture chamber for patriots and dissidents. “Saddam has the motive and the means and the recklessness and the hatred to threaten the American people. He will be stopped,” Mr Bush said. He made these comments after complimenting US Secretary of State Colin Powell over his presentation before the Security Council.
Pressuring reluctant UN Security Council members to get tough on Iraq, the US President said he would welcome a new resolution on disarmament if it would highlight the world body’s resolve. “All the world can rise to this moment. The community of free nations can show that it is strong and confident and determined to keep the peace,” he said. Mr Bush demanded that the council should show whether its words had any meaning. “Having made its demands, the Security Council must not back out when those demands are defied and mocked by a dictator,” he stated. Mr Bush reiterated his resolve to disarm Iraq using force if the UN failed to do so. “The USA, along with a growing coalition of nations, is resolved to take whatever action is necessary to defend ourselves and disarm the Iraqi regime,” Mr Bush said. He, however, did not respond when asked whether he would set a deadline for the UN to act, even as many analysts expect that war will begin not long after the next report by UN inspectors. Mr Bush’s warning to Saddam comes a day after Mr Powell laid out the American case against Iraq before the UN Security Council, presenting audio tapes and satellite photos as evidence that Iraq was involved in the development of weapons of mass destruction. Mr Bush said the USA would welcome and support a new UN Security Council resolution as long as it endorsed its previous demands for Iraqi disarmament. He also accused the Iraqi leader of authorising his forces to use chemical
weapons, “the very weapons the dictator tells the world he does not have.” Mr Bush said the Iraqi regime’s violations of Security Council resolutions was evident. “The regime is pursuing an elaborate campaign to conceal weapons materials and to hide or intimidate key experts and scientists, all in direct defiance of Security Council resolution 1441,” he said. Echoing Mr Powell’s presentation, Mr Bush said Baghdad was home to several Al-Qaida accomplices.
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Iraq trying to cooperate: Blix Vienna, February 7 Asked about yesterday’s interview with an Iraqi biologist, the first scientist who has consented to be interviewed by experts searching for weapons of mass destruction, Mr Blix said: “I think it seems they are making an effort.” But he added: “We want to see a lot more this weekend,” when he and chief nuclear inspector Mohamed El-Baradei will meet senior Iraqi officials. Mr Blix spoke to CNN on his way to address inspectors being trained at the United Nations complex in Vienna, where El-Baradei’s International Atomic Energy Agency has its headquarters. The United Nations confirmed that a private three-hour interview had taken place with a biologist at the Al-Hayat hotel in Baghdad, where the inspectors reside, a senior UN official said. UNITED NATIONS: Despite continued resistance from veto-wielding members of the UN Security Council, the UK may introduce a new UN resolution authorising the use of force against Iraq, British and US diplomats said. Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said on Friday that there was still time to find a political solution to the Iraq crisis. France and Russia oppose the use of force against Iraq and both have the veto power.
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Indo-Pak talks on power project fail Islamabad, February 7 “Due to the reluctance of India to resolve the issue at the level of the Permanent Indus Commission, in accordance with Article 9(1) of the Indus Water Treaty, Pakistan is left with no option but to invoke Article 9(2)(A) of the treaty for the appointment of a neutral expert to resolve the problem,’’ the Pakistan Government said in a statement here. This would be the first time since the treaty came in force that a neutral expert would be called to resolve an issue. The delegations of the two countries, led by their respective Water Commissioners, held divergent views and failed to reach a consensus at the special meeting of the Permanent Commission of Indus Waters, which ended yesterday. Pakistan’s contention was that it would be deprived of 6,000 to 7,000 cusecs of water per day due to the design of the project. Pakistan’s Water Commissioner Syed Jamaat Ali Shah said some structures in the present design were not there in the preliminary design of the project that Islamabad had approved. However, India’s Water Commissioner A C Gupta held the view that the changes in the project, due to be completed next year, were in accordance with the treaty and would not affect the flow of water to Pakistan. Under the treaty, brokered by the World Bank in 1960, Pakistan has the right to use water from the Indus, Jhelum and Chenab, while India has the right over the waters of the Ravi, Sutlej and Beas.
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3 LTTE men blow themselves up Colombo, February 7 Spokesman for the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) Teitur Torkelsson said the Sri Lankan navy intercepted two LTTE trawlers 4.4 nautical miles off the Delft Island in Jaffna peninsula yesterday afternoon. When they went ahead to inspect, the LTTE cadres on board threatened to swallow cyanide. The navy informed the SLMM, which sent their two representatives to get in touch with the rebels. The rebels finally relented. However, the LTTE cadres blew themselves up.
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Lanka talks skip sensitive issues Berlin, February 7 When talks started this morning, both parties agreed to further defer volatile military matters and address less contentious humanitarian issues instead.
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Mystery shrouds death of cloned sheep Sydney, February 7 An independent autopsy failed to determine what killed Matilda, who died over the weekend, South Australian Research Institute said. “On Saturday, when she was last inspected, she was remarkably healthy,” institute director Rob Lewis said. Her body was found early on Sunday. “The animal had been particularly sprightly and her death was very unexpected,” he said. Scientists cloned Matilda in April 2000 using a technique similar to that used for the world’s first cloned sheep, Dolly, in Scotland in 1996.
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