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Article: Iraq: Stepped-Up Scrutiny?(United Nations considers monitoring of nuclear weapons developments in Iraq)(Brief Article)
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- August 22, 2005
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Byline: John Barry
In case a future Iraqi leader decides that Iran's nuclear ambitions next door mean Iraq should restart Saddam Hussein's nuclear-, chemical- or biological-weapon program, what kind of inter-national monitoring should the country be subject to? "The question is starting to bubble up," says a British official who is not allowed by his government to speak for attribution.
Demetrios Perricos, head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, the agency probing Iraq's WMD work before the U.S. invasion, raised the issue in the United Nations Security Council in June. France and Russia both indicated that they ...