US Accepts Iraqi Offer,
Sends In 50,000 Heavily Armed Weapons Inspectors With Air Support
President Bush has finally accepted
Iraq's latest offer to allow weapons
inspectors back into the country
and has ordered 50 regiments of weapons
inspectors to be deployed immediately.
The president told reporters: "As
there is a significant risk to personal safety
over there, I have decided that
each weapons inspector will be equipped with
M-16 rifles, grenades, machine guns,
sidearms and survival kits. They will also
be escorted by armoured vehicles
with special, weapons-inspecting helicopter
gunships providing back-up."
He added: "I personally wanna kick Saddam's ass, but if the UN says
we have
to inspect it first, I'm okay with that too."
--BUSH:
Ready
In addition to weapons inspectors
on the ground, the recently renamed aircraft
carriers the U.S.S. Weapons Inspector
and U.S.S. Passive Observer have also
set sail for the Gulf, complete
with 22 F-16 weapons-inspecting fighter
bombers and over a hundred special,
weapons-inspecting cruise missiles.
The 101st Airborne Weapons Inspectors
have also been told to be at full
readiness for mass deployment by
parachute.
"They're obviously taking this weapons
inspecting thing quite seriously," said
Robert Flynn of Jane's Defence Weekly.
Saddam Hussein was unavailable for
comment.
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