The Independent reports:
"Bill Clinton ... ordered Operation Desert Fox, the last big air offensive
against Iraq, after the eviction of UN weapons inspectors in December 1998."
(Rupert Cornwell, 'United States - President calls for support inside and
outside America,' The Independent, September 5, 2002)
The Daily Telegraph is of course on-side:
"Saddam... refused UN weapons-inspectors access to sites such as his
presidential palaces - then expelled them from Iraq." (Editorial, 'Convince
us, Mr Blair,' Daily Telegraph, March 31, 2002)
The BBC's Jane Corbin stated on Panorama that "the inspectors were thrown
out... and a divided UN Security Council let Saddam get away with it."
(Panorama, The Case Against Saddam, BBC1, September 23, 2002)
On the BBC's Lunchtime News, James Robbins reported that inspectors were
"asked to leave" after relations with Iraq broke down. (BBC1, September 17,
2002)
"Bill Clinton ... ordered Operation Desert Fox, the last big air offensive
against Iraq, after the eviction of UN weapons inspectors in December 1998."
(Rupert Cornwell, 'United States - President calls for support inside and
outside America,' The Independent, September 5, 2002)
The Daily Telegraph is of course on-side:
"Saddam... refused UN weapons-inspectors access to sites such as his
presidential palaces - then expelled them from Iraq." (Editorial, 'Convince
us, Mr Blair,' Daily Telegraph, March 31, 2002)
The BBC's Jane Corbin stated on Panorama that "the inspectors were thrown
out... and a divided UN Security Council let Saddam get away with it."
(Panorama, The Case Against Saddam, BBC1, September 23, 2002)
On the BBC's Lunchtime News, James Robbins reported that inspectors were
"asked to leave" after relations with Iraq broke down. (BBC1, September 17,
2002)