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  Thank you David Muller for your humanitarian work to help the people
  of Iraq in their struggle against the unjust embargo.
  Ibrahim Ebeid


  *US readies for Iraq strike*

  South news nov 7           David Muller <itscom@alphalink.com.au>

  US sends four F-16s,  tanker  plane  to airbase in  Turkey as  the
  Turkish daily Hurriyet quoted Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz as saying
  the United  States has asked Turkey to allow the use of an airbase
  for possible air raids against Iraq.

  Mr  Yilmaz said  Washington has  asked for restrictions on flights
  from Incirlik to be eased.  The Incirlik  base was used for bombing
  raids on Iraq during the Gulf War and is currently used by American
  and British warplanes patrolling the no-fly zone over northern Iraq.

  Meanwhile  the Pentagon  said it was  keeping the aircraft carrier
  Nimitz at sea in the Gulf, postponing a scheduled port call in the
  United  Arab Emirates  this weekend. Pentagon  spokesman Ken Bacon
  said Marine Corps Gen. Anthony Zinni, head of the U.S. Central Com-
  mand,  had decided  to delay  the port call  by the  Nimitz, which
  carries  more than  50 attack  planes,  "in  light  of the current
  situation.''

  Iraqi  Deputy Prime  Minister Tariq Aziz also lashed out at Butler
  today, accusing him of trying to "mislead the Security Council and
  to escalate the situation with the aim of misleading international
  public opinion."  Aziz's  statement  was  carried by  the official
  Iraqi News Agency.

  In  a letter  to the  Security  Council,  Iraqi  Foreign  Minister
  Mohammed  Saeed al-Sahhaf blamed UNSCOM for its failure to conduct
  inspections for more  than a week.  The inspections  were scrubbed
  after Iraqis -- for a fourth straight day -- refused to admit Ame-
  rican members of the team.  "Iraq did  not prevent  the monitoring
  groups from conducting their inspection visits. Rather it requested
  the Americans not enter,''  al-Sahhaf said. He said Butler ``bears
  full responsibility for ... preventing  the inspection  teams from
  conducting their functions.''

  Al-Sahhaf also  said one surveillance camera was damaged Wednesday
  during an explosion while the Iraq military was testing two short-
  range  missile engines. Short-range missiles are not banned by the
  United  Nations.  He acknowledged  moving some equipment, but said
  Baghdad  took the action  only because it feared a U.S. air strike
  was imminent.  ``Therefore, we have taken some measures, which are
  precisely to move to distant sites the equipment that may have been
  subject to military attack,'' he said.

  He said  the equipment  would be returned to the original location
  and  the United  Nations would  be allowed  to inspect it once any
  threat of  an air  strike ends. ``We stress  that these equipments
  will not be  used for any proscribed military activity during this
  period,'' he said.

  In the  West Bank,  Palestinian youths demonstrated against Israel
  and in support of Iraq Wednesday.  ``Why are U.N. Security Council
  resolutions imposed on Iraq but not Israel?'' chanted schoolchild-
  ren near  Dheisheh refugee  camp in the  Bethlehem area. ``Yes to
  President Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi leadership!''


  Wachtberg, 10.11.1997         I. Musa / Forum for Palestine