Washington: Equating the United Nations with the "coalition of willing", which the US
is putting together, Washington has warned the world body that if it fails to disarm
Iraq, another international group will do so.
"If the UN fails to act, that means the United Nations will not be the international
body that disarms Saddam Hussein. So this will remain an international action - just
the United Nations will
have chosen to put itself in the sidelines," White House
Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said.
"So Saddam will be disarmed by an international group," he said, adding "but from a
moral point of view, as the world witnessed in Rwanda (where a million people were
massacred), and as the world witnessed in Kosovo, the UN Security Council will have
failed to act once again."
The White House is "furious" over the decision of UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix to
include the discovery of unmanned aerial vehicles and munitions that can fire
chemical and biological weapons in an annex to his report, where few noticed it,
instead of in his main speech, CBS and NBC TV networks said.
Both Secretary of State Colin Powell and Fleischer mentioned what they regard as
Blix's failure on that score, the networks said.
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