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Iraqis sceptical about Garner

Russia insists on UN arms inspectors declaring Iraq free of WMD

STAR DESK
Jay Garner, the retired US general overseeing Iraq's reconstruction, arrived in Baghdad yesterday to see for himself the devastation suffered by the capital.
But his promise to work all out to repair the damage failed to convince Iraqis who faced the worst nightmare during the US-led bombardment.
In a sign of tensions with Iraqi leaders emerging after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Garner's team said the United States did not recognise the authority of an Iraqi who has declared
himself governor of Baghdad. And not all Baghdad residents welcomed the US-led team tasked with rebuilding their country.
"What better day in your life can you have than to be able to help somebody else, to help other people, and that is what we intend to do," Garner, head of the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA), told reporters on arrival.
Garner visited a hospital ransacked by looters and deprived of electricity, and an abandoned sewage treatment plant.
He said his priority was to restore
basic services such as water and electricity. Asked what the greatest challenge was, he said: "Everything is the challenge."
At the Yarmuk hospital in southern Baghdad, Garner was led through dark, dusty corridors littered with broken glass and shown wards stripped by looters of everything except beds.
"What we need to do from this day forward is to give birth to a new system in Iraq," he told doctors at the hospital. "It begins with us working together, but it is hard work and it takes a long time. We will help you as long as you want us to."
But not all were convinced. "I want to cry, because these are only words," said a doctor who gave her name as Iman. "If they give us anything it is not from their own pockets. It is from our oil," she said.
"Saddam Hussein was an unjust ruler, but maybe one day we could have got rid of him, and not had these foreigners come in to our country." RUSSIAN INSISTENCE
Russia will insist on UN arms inspectors declaring Iraq free of weapons of mass destruction before sanctions against it can be lifted, Itar-Tass news agency quoted a senior foreign ministry official as saying.
The unnamed official said the chief weapons inspector Hans Blix, who headed UN inspectors in Iraq prior to the US-led invasion of the country, should be allowed to return and quickly finish the work.
Further strife is looming between Washington and Russia, which fiercely opposed the US-led war, after senior US defence adviser Richard
Perle said in an interview that Moscow was likely to lose rights to Iraqi oil contracts signed under Saddam's regime.
FACING PROSECUTION
As American forces hunt some 50 most wanted from Iraq's toppled regime, there are potentially thousands more former government assassins, torturers and other enforcers of Saddam Hussein's rule who also remain at large.
Catching these lower-level operatives -- and ultimately putting them on trial -- promises to be a massive and lengthy undertaking.
The administration is planning prosecutions for alleged war crimes committed during this war as well as the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Cases also are expected to be pursued for alleged atrocities committed over decades by Iraq's government against its citizens. TOXIC AGENT
US military experts hunting for illegal weapons in Iraq have found precursors to a banned toxic agent and say it is the most important such discovery since the start of the US-led war, the New York Times reported yesterday.
A US military team found the substance buried in the sand thanks to information provided by an Iraqi scientist who said he had worked in Iraq's chemical weapons' program for more than a decade, the daily said.
The report described the chemicals as "precursors for a toxic agent that is banned by chemical weapons treaties," and said the scientist claimed to have buried them in his backyard and elsewhere as evidence of Iraq's weapons programme.
GRAVES
Nearly 1,000 political prisoners lie buried in secret graves at a cemetery on the western outskirts of Baghdad, the cemetery's manager and a gravedigger told AFP while displaying remains of the corpses.
"The Baath regime has gone and now we can talk freely with you," the manager, Mohymeed Aswad, told AFP.
"They are all political. Ten to 15 bodies would arrive at a time from the Abu Ghraib prison and we would bury them here," he said, adding that the last corpse interred there was number 993.