From MIM Notes 180  PART I  FEBRUARY 15, 1999

U.$. secretly spying on Iraq

Dear MIM:

The U.S. government admitted that it has secretly 
used the UN weapons inspection system to spy on Iraq 
[See article this issue.--MIM] This came about from 
information released by Kofi Annan and Scott Ritter.

Since the Gulf War our government has said that 
these inspections are necessary to keep track of 
Iraq's weapon's of mass destruction. This, however was 
just a ploy to monitor Iraq's internal communications, 
to track the movements of it's leaders and to keep the 
sanctions in place.

Clinton hoped that he could use this information to 
assassinate Iraq's political and military leaders with 
the air strikes he launched last December. Butler's 
report then was just the excuse and not the reason for 
war. 

There's a quote in Henderson's book from the war 
college report. The quote was made before Aug 1990. It 
talks about taking the initiative away from Iraq 
during some war in the future. Clinton's no fly zone 
serves this purpose. Before Desert Fox U.S. bombers 
could fly into Iraq under the guise of patrolling the 
no fly zone and get real close to their targets. The 
Iraqis wouldn't be aware of any hostile intent until 
bombs were dropped. This happened last summer when no 
fly zone jets fired a missile at a new water treatment 
facility near Basra. 

--a friend in the east January, 1999