Powell: Not So Fast on Inspections

(FOX News) - Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday that weapons inspectors should not be allowed to return to Iraq without a tough, new UN resolution. Sending inspectors back to Iraq now after a lapse of nearly four years would risk further deception by Saddam Hussein. Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix reached agreement with Iraq earlier Tuesday in Vienna to resume the inspections, but Powell said, "Our position is that he [Dr. Blix] should get new instructions in the form of a resolution."


2002-10-02 00:00:00

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