[Seattle-editorial] Fwd: [snow] "Iraq Dossier and U.S. Response:contacts for interviews"

[anarch3m]

do we want to do some phone interviews?  It would take a little space set up, my cell phone is only u.s.  freecalling zone....but hell....That gives us Western Legal!!!!

I wou;ld want some tech advise to mic this...

walt
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DATE: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:37:36
From: larry ebersole <wordheath at yahoo.com>
To: erie1917 at attbi.com, The Good Guys <snow at lists.riseup.net>

Fyi for anyone wanting contact info with technical
experts who can address more of the concerns about
disarmament.   Details follow.  Thanks, Larry Ebersole
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         PM Tuesday, December 10, 2002

Iraqi Documents and U.S. Response: Interviews
Available

HANS VON SPONECK, 011-41-22-77-44440, mobile:
011-41-797-45-5040, 
von_sponeck at yahoo.com, http://www.transnational.org
Former head of the United Nations oil-for-food program
in Iraq, Von Sponeck 
was recently in Iraq and is currently in Geneva. He
said today: "The U.S. 
government's actions amount to a campaign of severe
political harassment. 
They should give Hans Blix the time to assess the
documents. Bush 
disparaging Iraq when it is complying with total
access for the weapons 
inspectors shows a disregard for the reality on the
ground. The U.S. 
controlling of documents and sharing them with only
the permanent members 
of the Security Council and not the 10 rotating
members further intensifies 
the existing caste system within the UN Security
Council."

JAMES PAUL, (212) 557-3161, (212) 724-1572,
james.paul at globalpolicy.org, 
http://www.globalpolicy.org
Executive director of the Global Policy Forum, which
monitors policy-making 
at the United Nations, Paul is author of a series of
papers on Iraq.

JACQUELINE CABASSO, (510) 839-5877, cell (510)
306-0119, 
wslf at earthlink.net, http://www.wslfweb.org
Executive director of Western States Legal Foundation,
a nuclear 
disarmament advocacy organization, Cabasso recently
led a "Citizen Weapons 
Inspection Team" to the gates of the U.S. nuclear
weapons laboratory in 
Livermore, California. She said today: "The Bush
administration's claim 
that it has 'evidence' of continued development of
Iraqi weapons of mass 
destruction appears to be the last refuge of
scoundrels. While UNMOVIC and 
IAEA weapons inspectors are reporting full cooperation
from the Iraqis, 
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is alleging that the
inspectors won't be 
able to find evidence of Iraqi WMD programs.... The
U.S. determination to 
wage war against Iraq is becoming more transparent
with each passing day. 
And U.S. hypocrisy is at an all-time high given its
own dismal record on 
international treaty obligations and nuclear use
plans."

JOHN R. MACARTHUR, [via Giulia Melucci] (212)
420-5791, giulia at harpers.org
Author of "Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in
the Gulf War," 
MacArthur said today: "Virtually everything the Bush
administration does is 
calculated and much is based on lies and half truths.
The administration 
repeated over and over that there was a meeting
between Mohamed Atta and an 
Iraqi official. There is no evidence for this, but
according to a poll by 
the Council on Foreign Relations, a majority of
Americans still think this 
is true.... [During the Gulf War] the most spectacular
charge then was that 
Iraqi soldiers had pulled babies from incubators in
Kuwaiti hospitals, and 
stolen the incubators. The story was false, but wasn't
completely refuted 
until well after the Gulf War. Likewise, in August
1990, the White House 
asserted the existence of military satellite
photographs that showed Iraqi 
troops massed on the Saudi Arabian border --
preparing, said the White 
House, to invade that kingdom. These photos have never
been made public, 
probably because they don't exist. Genuine
commercial-satellite photographs 
of the Kuwait-Saudi Arabia border from that time,
published in the St. 
Petersburg Times, showed no Iraqi troops along the
frontier.... Recently, 
Bush cited an IAEA report that Iraq was 'six months
away from developing a 
weapon. I don't know what more evidence we need.' The
IAEA responded that 
not only was there no new report, 'there's never been
a report' asserting 
that Iraq was six months away from constructing a
nuclear weapon...."

For more information, contact at the Institute for
Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020, (202) 421-6858; or David
Zupan, (541) 484-9167

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