Nation & world briefing
Iraq resentfully agrees
to new U.N. inspections
Diego Ibarguen
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
WASHINGTON — With a U.S.
gun to his head, Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein on Wednesday ac
cepted a U.N. demand to open his
country to weapons inspections
without conditions.
Iraq’s U.N. ambassador delivered a
rambling, angry nine-page letter to
Secretary-General Kofi Annan agree
ing to abide by the tough inspection
terms set last Friday when the U.N.
Security Council voted 15-0 to order
Iraq to submit to new inspections.
The letter was signed by Iraqi For
eign Minister Naji Sabri, but he clear
ly was speaking for Hussein, who as
dictator has total power.
The letter denounced the U.N. ac
tion as unjust, denied that Iraq has any
weapons of mass destruction and at
tacked the United States and Great
Britain, the co-sponsors of the resolu
tion, as liars. Nevertheless it conclud
ed that “the important thing is trying
to spare our people any harm” and
said Iraq was “prepared to receivethe
inspectors within the assigned
timetable.” The Security Council had
given Iraq until this Friday to respond.
An extensive U.S. military buildup
continues around Iraq. President Bush
has made it clear that if Iraq does not
disarm, he will unleash a U.S.-led mili
tary coalition to invade the country.
Iraq’s decision to accept Security
Council Resolution 1441 clears the
way for Monday’s arrival of chief U.N.
weapons inspector Hans Blix and Mo
hamed ElBaradei, head of the Interna
tional Atomic Energy Agency. Blix is
to focus on chemical and biological
weapons; ElBaradei is charged with in
spectingfor nuclear weapons.
Iraq’s letter got a cold reception at
the White House. President Bush made
no reference to it in comments he
made at the start of an Oval Office
meeting with Annan. Instead, he con
gratulated the United Nations for last
week’s unanimous Security Council
action. Earlier Wednesday, after a
meeting with his Cabinet officers, Bush
repeated his near-daily call to Hussein
to disarm or face the consequences.
“We hope that he disarms. We
hope that he will listen to the world.
The world has spoken. ... If he
chooses not to disarm, we will disarm
him,” Bush said. “There’s no negotia
tions with Mr. Saddam Hussein.
Those days are long gone. And so are
the days of deceit and denial. And
now it’s up to him.”
The next test comes Dec. 8, a dead
line the U.N. resolution set for Iraq to
submit a “currently accurate, full and
complete” report of its military and
civilian chemical, biological and nu
clear programs and on other weapons
systems, such as ballistic missiles and
unmanned aerial vehicles.
The resolution warns of “serious
consequences” for failure to comply
and says Iraq has been and remains in
“material breach” of previous U.N. res
olutions —- diplomatic parlance often
used to authorize military force.
€> 2002, Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.
Catholic bishops approve
revised sex abuse policy
Donna (jehrke-Wmte
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
MIAMI — U.S. Roman Catholic
bishops Wednesday overwhelmingly
approved revisions to their clergy sex
ual abuse policy that would allow bish
ops to conduct preliminary investiga
tions in private and set up church
tribunals to judge accused priests.
In voting 246-7 for the policy, with
six bishops abstaining, the bishops said
the measures would still keep accused
molesters away from children in the
church. A priest found guilty of a single
offense — even from years ago — still
would be relieved of ministerial duties.
“The new norms make very clear
that sexual abuse and molestation by
priests will not be tolerated by the
Roman Catholic Church,” Phoenix
Bishop Thomas J. O’Brien said.
Victims’ advocacy groups remained
unconvinced. They noted the new
charter calls for keeping preliminary
investigations of accused priests confi
dential, limits lay review boards to an
advisory role, and requires accusers to
file complaints by age 28.
It is a real setback for the church
as a whole,” said David Glohessy, na
tional director of the Survivors Net
work of those Abused by Priests. “It is
going to deepen the divide between
the bishops and their flock.”
Especially troubling is the confi
dential preliminary investigations,
Glohessy said. “The secrecy is what
got us into this mess.”
The Rev. Thomas J. Reese, editor of
the national Jesuit magazine America,
was particularly critical of keeping the
review boards’ work confidential. “If
you are trying to restore credibility, you
have to be open and transparent. ”
Still, Reese said, the revisions do
“have a clearer procedure for determin
ing who is innocent and who is guilty.”
When the U.S. Conference of
Catholic Bishops met in Dallas in
June, the group adopted a policy that
said a priest accused of sexual mis
conduct would be barred from any
work connected to the church.
The Vatican balked, saying accused
priests deserved due process protec
tion. Under the new charter, the bish
ops would decide whether to remove a
priest while the preliminary investiga
tion is conducted. If the bishop deems
the allegation credible, the accused
priest would be put on leave, then go
before a clerical tribunal.
The Vatican must approve the new
policy before it can become church law
for the more than 190 Catholic dioce
ses across the nation. Rome will likely
approve it, as the revisions resulted
from a committee of four U.S. bishops
and four Vatican officials.
“We are now much further along
to a final conclusion to this terribly
painful scandal,” Chicago Cardinal
Francis George said.
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