More evidence of what Vladimir Putin said was more cooperation from Saddam in the matter of disarmament:
One scientist who met with the inspectors this week was so frightened, it took an hour for him to stop shaking, according to U.N. sources. “Iraqi scientists and researchers are under a lot of pressure and influence by the Iraqi authorities,” the Iraqi defector told ABCNEWS. “They were scared and threatened in different ways, including threatening to go after their families if they leave Iraq to meet with inspectors and going after their relatives if their families go with them and going after them even if they were in exile. “For these reasons, the scientist or researcher becomes scared to tell the secrets, even though he knows it’s a way to lift the difficult, miserable conditions the Iraqi people are living under.”
There will be no disarmament so long as the thug from Tikrit is in power in Baghdad. After twelve years, there can be zero doubt about that.
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