Secretary blames lack of Iraqi cooperation in search process
Secretary of State Colin Powell says time is running out for Iraq. NBC's Rosiland Jordan reports.
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Jan. 26 — Secretary of State Colin Powell, citing Iraq痴 lack of cooperation with U.N. inspectors, said Sunday he has lost faith in the inspectors・ability to conduct a definitive search for banned weapons programs. A U.S.-led war to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, however, is not imminent, Powell told business and political leaders, and he did not explicitly call for the inspections to end.
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POWELL SAID in his address to political and business leaders at the World Economic Forum that only a strong international response will deter Saddam from sharing his weapons with terrorist groups or using them himself.
Even though Iraq has responded to weeks of inspections “with evasions and with lies,” the secretary said, “We are in no great rush to judgment tomorrow or the day after, but clearly time is running out.”
Powell said Iraq should not be in doubt that “if it does not disarm peacefully at this juncture, it will be disarmed at the end of the road.”
