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World & Nation
Wednesday, January 29, 2003 University Press Page 3
U.N. report leaves White House unfazed
Inspectors’ report fails to slow U.S. march toward Iraq showdown
AP photoselect
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Bush administration is refusing to tip
its hand on when it might go to war to
disarm Iraq, although top officials
are immersed in weeklong efforts to
get the U.N. Security Council to
endorse the use of force.
Secretary of State Colin Powell is
suggesting that the tug-of-war with
Saddam Hussein is nearing an end.
“What we can’t do is just keep
kicking the can down the road in the
absence of a change in policy and
attitude” in Baghdad, Powell said
Monday. “We will have our discus-
sions and consultations this week,
and then we will announce next steps
at an appropriate time.”
Following up on a weapons
inspectors’ report to the United
Nations, President Bush consulted
with Spanish Prime Minister Jose
Maria Aznar and Dutch Prime
Minister Jan Peter Balkenende on
Monday.
Bush also had meetings on tap
later this week with prime ministers
Silvio Berlusconi of Italy and Tony
Blair of Britain, the closest U.S. ally.
The United States intends to
provide U.N. inspectors with more
evidence next week in support of its
contention that Saddam has hidden
thousands of chemical and biological
weapons in palaces, mosques and pri-
vate homes, White House spokesman
Ari Fleischer said.
A U.S. official, speaking on con-
dition of anonymity, said the adminis-
tration might go along with inspec-
tions for about two weeks.
The U.N. inspectors credited Iraq
in a report Monday with only limited
cooperation. “Inspections only work
in the presence of cooperation, active
cooperation,” Powell said.
In an interview with the
Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Iraq’s
deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz,
denied that Iraq has anthrax and
insisted that the government had
fully cooperated with inspectors.
In the meantime, Powell, U.N.
Ambassador John Negroponte and
other American diplomats will lobby
the 14 other members of the Security
Council to implement the “serious
consequences” the council threat-
ened Iraq with in November.
Asked Tuesday if the administra-
tion supports returning to the council
for a second resolution before going
to war, Fleischer said, “It’s desirable
but it is not mandatory.”
Germany opposes going to war
under any circumstances.. France,
Russia and others have been skepti-
cal that a case for war has been made.
But on Tuesday, Russian President
Vladimir Putin said that Moscow
could soften its insistence on a diplo-
matic solution if Baghdad hampers
U.N. weapons inspectors.
“If Iraq begins to make problems
for the work of the inspectors, then
Russia may change its position and
agree with the United States on the
development of different, tougher
U.N. Security Council decisions,”
Putin said during a visit to Ukraine.
Bush will try to prepare the
nation for war in his State of the
Union address Tuesday night, aides
have said, but will withhold an
announcement of an attack that
many members of Congress object
to and polls indicate does not have
the support of the American people.
“What people want to hear is the
comprehensive logic” of going after
Saddam, Karen Hughes, an adviser to
the president, said on NBC’s “Today”
program Tuesday.
White House communications
director Dan Bartlett, appearing on
the same program, said Bush “will
clearly state why Saddam Hussein is
a threat to the American people, why
he is a threat to the world.”
Powell said the administration
Secretary of State
Colin Powell
speaks about
Iraq during a
press conference
at the State
Department
Monday, in
Washington.
had “some basis” for assuming Iraq
had links to the al-Qaida terror net-
work, accused in the Sept. 11 attacks
on the United States.
“The information that we can
divulge in greater detail we will be
divulging in the days ahead,” he said.
Later, a senior Bush adviser,
speaking on condition of anonymi-
ty, said Bush would cite U.S. claims
of Iraqi links to al-Qaida in his
speech and that Powell would
reveal evidence of the ties and
more about hidden Iraqi weapons
next week.
Previous administration claims
about Iraqi al-Qaida links proved
inconclusive.
The Pentagon pushed ahead
with war preparations that point to
more than 150,000 troops and four
aircraft carrier battle groups, each
with more than 70 warplanes, in the
Persian Gulf region by the end of
February.
Brothers
charged
with murder,
decapitation
of mother
SANTA ANA, Calif (AP) —
Two young men killed their mother
and tried to cover their tracks by
chopping off her head and hands the
way they saw it done on “The
Sopranos,” authorities said Monday.
Jason Bautista, 20, and his 15-
year-old half brother, who was not
identified because of his age, were
arrested over the weekend for inves-
tigation of murder, Sheriff Michael
Carona said.
Carona refused to say where
Jane M. Bautista, 41, was killed but
said a preliminary autopsy showed
she was strangled. Her head and
hands were found in the apartment
she shared with her sons in Riverside,
east of Los Angeles.
“I don’t know what motive you
could possibly give for killing your
mother,” Carona said.
The family, originally from
Illinois, moved to California six years
ago and had moved into the
Riverside apartment about six
months ago.
According to the sheriff
Bautista was killed and dismem-
bered Jan. 14. The sons allegedly tried
to dump her body in Oceanside the
next day, but were spotted by a secu-
rity guard and ended up throwing the
body in an Orange County ravine.
The guard gave police the license
number of Jason Bautista’s car.
Jason Bautista, a desk clerk at a
Holiday Inn in Ontario, was arrested
at California State University in San
Bernardino on Jan. 24. He allegedly
told investigators he and his brother
lived with their mom but they hadn’t
seen her for weeks, but soon con-
fessed.
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