Saddam Hussein said Monday Iraq would consider cooperating with a new U.N. resolution on arms inspections as long as it was not merely a pretext for the United States to attack it.
and in totally unrelated news,
Yemen said Tuesday it was investigating the cause of a car blast that killed six alleged al Qaeda members after a U.S. official said the vehicle was destroyed by a missile fired from a U.S. drone.Monday Yemen said the six, including a key suspect in an attack on a U.S. warship two years ago, were killed when the car they were traveling in exploded in eastern Marib province, but officials have refused to comment further.
"The investigation into the car blast is still under way," a Yemeni government official told Reuters.A U.S. official in Washington said Monday the missile was fired by an unmanned U.S. CIA (news - web sites) aircraft.
While good for a grin, these two events are unrelated. Hussein's offer is more of his doublespeak, couched in the same vague restrictions we've heard time and again. Of course, the EUros will buy into it, as they continue their accelerating slide into irrelevancy.
Posted by Rich at November 5, 2002 11:37 AM