17-3-02-ko-talabani-us-attack-sep11

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*Talabani: US Will Replace Saddam By Next September

(The Kurdistan Observer) Mar 17, 2002. In an interview with the London based Al-Hayat today, the PUK leader Jalal Talabani disclosed that the United States will force the removal of President Saddam Hussein before next September.

Mr. Talabani acknowledged that "there is a law called the Iraq liberation law
passed by the US Congress and President Bill Clinton. The new American
administration is determined to implement it, as we were told during our
meetings with US officials. I believe that the conflict between Washington
and Baghdad is far deeper than the return to Iraq of UN inspectors. The
Bush-the son administration wants to complete what the Bush-the father did
not complete. Therefore, I believe that Baghdad's agreement for the
return of inspectors could delay (a military attack) or reduce the scale of the
hostility to the Iraqi regime, but changing this regime is an American law that
any American administration has to apply".

Mr. Talabani added that "there are three scenarios to remove Saddam:
a military coup, intensive aerial bombing following by army officers seizing
power, or an invasion from outside followed by US cooperation with the Iraqi
opposition".

When asked if an invasion would be carried out from the north [Southern
Kurdistan], the PUK leader said "from the north and south. The Americans
want a democratic power in Iraq under which all religious and ethnic
communities would be represented".

In his response to a question about Iraqi army maneuvers along its
border with Kurdistan, Talabani said that Iraq had always troops along its border with Kurdistan and that the Iraqi army maneuvers are of a defensive nature.

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