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Iraqis breathe sigh of relief while Hamdoon predicts another crisis
BAGHDAD. Nov 23: Cafes were crowded Saturday along Baghdad's main shopping drag. Iraqis drank tea. smoked cigarettes and played cards but the talk was mostly of one thing relief that the conflict was over, reports AP.
Iraq has been on alert of military attack from the United States for three weeks, since Saddam Hussein ordered the expulsion of American UN inspectors searching Iraqi military sites for weapons of mass destruction.
To prepare for war. people stockpiled food — cans of beans and tuna — and lined up for gasoline under government-ordered rationing: for private cars, just 40 litres (10.4 gallons) for four days. They dismantled factories, carrying machinery to hiding places to protect it from bombing.
With the inspectors back in Baghdad, the worst of the tension seems to have passed. A US warship is still in the Gulf, and extra US fighter planes are still in Kuwait, just over the border. Iraq is still on alert.
But — for the moment — Iraqis say they are satisfied
I consider this the end of the embargo, and it is a diplomatic victory of Iraq." said Mazen
Ahmed, a 28-year-old labourer.
In exchange for the inspectors’ return. Russia promised to fight for the easing of sanctions on oil exports, imposed after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
The sanctions have devas-tated Iraq's economy, and those few people willing to speak to reporters expressed optimism that recent events mean the embargo may be over.
Anger toward the United State was rife, with the slogan "Down with America" scrawled on walls, buildings and streets all over the city. Last week, the speaker of parliament urged school children to write the slogans. setting an example by writing the slogan in chalk on a sidewalk.
Many people are sick of having UN inspectors searching Iraq's factories and warehouses for weapons and chemicals, and seeing American U-2 spy planes soaring overhead.
They are about to take the Iraqi flag down and put their own flag instead." Baghdad resident Saeed Jasim said Saturday. expressing a comment heard from many others.
With rationing still in place, few cars were on the streets and lines were long at gas stations. Many more people have been
riding the boats that run regularly on the Tigris River through the city's centre.
Few people were shopping Saturday, after buying up all the emergency supplies and food they need over the past weeks. The cafes were crowded primarily because people aren't working, with many factories closed.
But some have been reassembled. including the nation's biggest oil refinery, which sits in the middle of Baghdad. Like a giant candle, the tall pipe of the Douna refinery blazed with fire as usual on Saturday, a message to Iraqis for miles around that the crisis was coming to an end.
Another report from UN says, after Russia failed to convince the United Nations to make changes in the Iraq weapons inspection programme. the Iraqi UN ambassador is warning that another showdown with the international community is likely.
Nizar Hamdoon. appearing Saturday on CNN's "Evans and Novak" show, was asked whether a "repeat performance" of the events of the last three weeks was possible, meaning a standoff between the Iraqis and UN inspectors trying to enter
sensitive Iraqi sites.
"T don't wish that to happen, obviously," Hamdoon said. But it's clear here that if the people of Iraq, the 22 million people of Iraq, continue to die silently. I don't think that they will stay quiet for a long time.
Hamdoon added that "if nothing is resolved because of the American pressure on the Security Council members, then In a while — I don't know when — in weeks or months, we could get back Into a similar situation."
Hamdoon appeared on the programme shortly after the Security Council met to discuss a report by the emergency meeting of the UN Special Commission, which performs arms inspections in Iraq.
Russia hoped to use the meet Ing to make changes in the programme and accelerate the process for certifying Iraqi compliance with UN disarmament resolutions in the fields of nuclear and long-range missiles
But the plan backfired, and the commission produced a set of recommendations and observations which were virtually Identical to the Anglo-American view of the situation.
The commissioners said more information was needed
before Iraq could be declared in compliance with |he resolutions governing its nuclear and long-range missile programmes.
They also repeated allega lions — which Iraq has denied — that Baghdad has mounted a concealment campaign to hide proscribed weapons and materials and pressed again for permission to base fixed wing surveillance aircraft on Iraqi territory.
Before the television programme. Hamdoon told reporters at the United Nations that the Special Commission report failed to reconcile the difference between the UN's de mand to enter any site it chooses and its acceptance of Iraqi sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Most of the standoffs have occurred at sites which Iraq says are unrelated to its weapons of mass destruction programme but which are vital to national security and the protection of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Iraq says the UN teams have sought to enter those sites as part of an American campaign to topple Saddam under the cover of the inspection programme.