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How Are Bush's Comments Playing Out in Iraq?
Aired January 22, 2003 - 05:02 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Turning to President Bush's harsh comments on Iraq and Saddam Hussein, it appears Mr. Bush is moving closer to ordering an attack. In comments to a reporter he says Saddam Hussein is not meeting the U.N.'s demand to give up weapons of mass destruction.
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GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: He's not disarming. As a matter of fact, it appears to be a rerun of a bad movie. He's delaying, he's deceiving, he's asking for time. He's playing hide and seek with inspectors. One thing is for certain, he's not disarming.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: So, how are those comments playing in Iraq, where weapons inspectors are still going about their business this morning?
For that, let's go live to Baghdad and Rym Brahimi -- good morning, Rym.
RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
Well, on this end, many Iraqis have been complaining or voicing, at any rate, complaint about this inspection process. Today, the information ministry brought forward to reporters a man who calls himself private citizen Sabah Anwar Mohammed. Now, he runs a chicken farm on the outskirts of Baghdad and he complained to reporters that the inspectors forced him to tear down a wall that was protecting equipment, broke locks and literally pressured him into complying with their demands.
Here's how he put it.
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SABAH ANWAR MOHAMMED, IRAQI FARM OWNER: Is it possible that these locks would cause an international crisis? This is a pretext to be laid on Iraq or on me. These were broken by the inspectors themselves.
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BRAHIMI: Now, the farm owner, who is also an industrialist, someone who comes from a prominent industrial family here in Iraq, says he is suing. He's going to file a lawsuit through the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs asking for compensation, both material and moral compensation -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Rym Brahimi reporting live from Baghdad this morning.
Thanks.
We're going to wake up our State Department correspondent Andrea Koppel in the next hour of DAYBREAK and ask her about the controversy over Iraq.
And 24 hours a day we've got the latest on Iraq, those inspections and the U.S. military buildup right here on our Web site. It's easy. Click onto cnn.com, AOL keyword: CNN.
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Aired January 22, 2003 - 05:02 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Turning to President Bush's harsh comments on Iraq and Saddam Hussein, it appears Mr. Bush is moving closer to ordering an attack. In comments to a reporter he says Saddam Hussein is not meeting the U.N.'s demand to give up weapons of mass destruction.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: He's not disarming. As a matter of fact, it appears to be a rerun of a bad movie. He's delaying, he's deceiving, he's asking for time. He's playing hide and seek with inspectors. One thing is for certain, he's not disarming.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: So, how are those comments playing in Iraq, where weapons inspectors are still going about their business this morning?
For that, let's go live to Baghdad and Rym Brahimi -- good morning, Rym.
RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
Well, on this end, many Iraqis have been complaining or voicing, at any rate, complaint about this inspection process. Today, the information ministry brought forward to reporters a man who calls himself private citizen Sabah Anwar Mohammed. Now, he runs a chicken farm on the outskirts of Baghdad and he complained to reporters that the inspectors forced him to tear down a wall that was protecting equipment, broke locks and literally pressured him into complying with their demands.
Here's how he put it.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SABAH ANWAR MOHAMMED, IRAQI FARM OWNER: Is it possible that these locks would cause an international crisis? This is a pretext to be laid on Iraq or on me. These were broken by the inspectors themselves.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BRAHIMI: Now, the farm owner, who is also an industrialist, someone who comes from a prominent industrial family here in Iraq, says he is suing. He's going to file a lawsuit through the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs asking for compensation, both material and moral compensation -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Rym Brahimi reporting live from Baghdad this morning.
Thanks.
We're going to wake up our State Department correspondent Andrea Koppel in the next hour of DAYBREAK and ask her about the controversy over Iraq.
And 24 hours a day we've got the latest on Iraq, those inspections and the U.S. military buildup right here on our Web site. It's easy. Click onto cnn.com, AOL keyword: CNN.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
