BAGHDAD: As the United Nations Security Council continues its “open debate” on Iraq, an influential member of Iraq’s governing Ba’ath Party has told Iraqjournal.org that Baghdad will not accept the Bush administration’s draft resolution, characterizing it as a virtual occupation agreement. “This Iraq resolution was definitely written not to be implemented,” said Dr. Abdul Rezak Al Hashimi, a former federal minister. “The intention of the American administration is to issue a resolution Iraq cannot comply with, so bombs and rockets start to come. That’s what they are planning.”
The resolution calls for an armed security force to accompany weapons inspectors should they return to Iraq “to protect them.” It also reserves the right to impose additional “no-fly/no-drive zones, exclusion zones, and/or ground and air transit corridors, (which shall be enforced by U.N. security forces or by member states).”
The resolution calls for an armed security force to accompany weapons inspectors should they return to Iraq “to protect them.” It also reserves the right to impose additional “no-fly/no-drive zones, exclusion zones, and/or ground and air transit corridors, (which shall be enforced by U.N. security forces or by member states).”
Several sections of the resolution provide authorization for Washington to send in its own operatives, outside of the U.N. weapons inspection framework, with carte blanche rights to go anywhere they choose. Iraq says this could provide the justification for Washington to openly send in spies to develop target lists for future attacks on the country, as the Clinton administration did covertly in 1998.
The draft resolution says that if Iraq refuses to “comply fully” with these demands, that “all necessary means” can be used to “restore international peace and security.”
The draft resolution says that if Iraq refuses to “comply fully” with these demands, that “all necessary means” can be used to “restore international peace and security.”