The Bush administration is pressuring UN weapons inspectors to kidnap Iraqi scientists, spirit them out of the country and hand them over to U.S. intelligence for interrogation. This latest scheme to concoct a pretext for war—in defiance of every tenent of international law and democratic rights—is a devastating self-exposure of the war camarilla in Washington.
According to administration officials, the scientists, together with their families, would be taken from Iraq—if necessary, against their will—and placed in a “witness protection program.” Thus the U.N., at the bidding of Washington, would treat Iraqi civilians as criminals.
This proposal—worthy of Mafia gangsters—should be taken by world public opinion as an indication of the type of “democracy” the U.S. intends to establish, at the point of a bayonet, should it succeed in invading and occupying the country.
In a meeting in New York on December 2, Bush’s national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, reportedly prodded chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix to push ahead with the plan to abduct scientists. “Some American officials want the U.N. team to be aggressive in identifying scientists and demanding that they leave the country, perhaps without their permission,” the New York Times reported Friday. “Mr. Blix is said to be arguing that the U.N. cannot, in effect, abduct people against their will.”
According to administration officials, the scientists, together with their families, would be taken from Iraq—if necessary, against their will—and placed in a “witness protection program.” Thus the U.N., at the bidding of Washington, would treat Iraqi civilians as criminals.
This proposal—worthy of Mafia gangsters—should be taken by world public opinion as an indication of the type of “democracy” the U.S. intends to establish, at the point of a bayonet, should it succeed in invading and occupying the country.
In a meeting in New York on December 2, Bush’s national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, reportedly prodded chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix to push ahead with the plan to abduct scientists. “Some American officials want the U.N. team to be aggressive in identifying scientists and demanding that they leave the country, perhaps without their permission,” the New York Times reported Friday. “Mr. Blix is said to be arguing that the U.N. cannot, in effect, abduct people against their will.”