R
'Send in troops with inspectors' By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor (Filed: 07/09/2002) http://www.news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/09/07/wirq07.xml
Tony Blair will urge President [sic] George W Bush today to deploy tens of thousands of troops on Iraq's borders, ready to help United Nations inspectors to force their way into suspected weapons sites.
As the Prime Minister prepared to fly to Camp David, Whitehall sources said he believed that only UN backing for "coercive inspections" would convince Washington hawks to build an international coalition rather than go it alone against Iraq.
The two leaders will also discuss whether the UN Security Council should deliver a four-week ultimatum for Iraq to admit weapons inspectors after an absence of four years.
Mr Blair is expected to urge Mr Bush to promise to "knock heads together" to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian dispute after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
The US-British call for tough action will be strengthened by the latest revelations that Iraq has carried out suspicious new construction at its nuclear facilities.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said that commercial satellite pictures showed the presence of several new buildings at one site, which it did not identify.
continued ....
-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20020906/9da625e0/attachment.htm>