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Article: Arab League leader urges U.S. to give U.N. inspections a chance.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- September 20, 2002
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Byline: Stephen Franklin
CHICAGO _ Amid intense global politicking over the Iraq crisis, the leader of the Arab League called Friday for the United States not to gear up for war and to wait for United Nations arms inspectors to return to Iraq to learn the state of Saddam Hussein's weapons stockpiles.
"Give the mechanism of the United Nations a chance. That is all we are asking for," said Amr Moussa, the Arab League's secretary general, who is briefly visiting Chicago on a tour of major Arab-American communities.
Moussa, who helped lobby the Iraqis into inviting the U.N. arms inspectors back, warned that an attack on Iraq would feed "anger and ...