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Muted response in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- As expected, the U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution to send arms inspectors back to Iraq. CNN's Rym Brahimi reported from Baghdad on how Iraq prepared for the vote. BRAHIMI: There have been indications that Iraq is tending towards accepting that resolution. On Thursday the main ruling party newspaper was saying that it was in Iraq's interest to accept the resolution, or rather that it was not in Iraq's interest to reject or violate the resolution from the Security Council as Iraq says other countries do. (More on U.N. vote) Interestingly enough, this morning on Baghdad radio there was no word at all about any resolution and there hasn't been anything in the newspapers this morning beyond the usual rhetoric saying that this is a resolution that doesn't aim to disarm Iraq, but aims at giving the U.S. international legitimacy for a military attack against Iraq. A cartoon in one newspaper shows the U.N. muffled by the U.S. and Britain. This is typical of the rhetoric being heard here over the past few weeks. Iraq believes that the U.S. and Britain have pressured other countries to impose a resolution in order to allow them to perpetrate war. The fact that there hasn't been any comment is probably more significant of that fact that it leaves the margin open for the Iraqi leadership to decide what it's going to say. There are indications that they are going to accept (the resolution), but probably the way they are going to accept it is what they are working on now. This we will probably only hear about if and when the resolution is adopted later this evening.
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