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U.S. propaganda

Sir, — Your Washington Correspondent says that the United Nations inspectors were thrown out of Iraq in 1998 (`Iraqi declaration full of holes', Dec. 14). This is untrue. The then chief weapons inspector, Richard Butler, withdrew the inspectors on the eve of the unauthorised bombing of Iraq by the U.S. and British warplanes. The Iraqi authorities had earlier warned the U.N. that the inspectors would not be allowed in if they chose to withdraw. The then U.S. Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, said it did not really matter because the inspectors were not getting anywhere.

I regret that your correspondent has been taken in by American propaganda whose aim is to soften international opinion on the looming American invasion of Iraq.

S. Nihal Singh,

New Delhi

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