Iraq 'playing tricks' on inspectors - Powell

Recent improvements in Iraq's behaviour toward UN weapons inspectors are not enough to bring the country into compliance with…

Recent improvements in Iraq's behaviour toward UN weapons inspectors are not enough to bring the country into compliance with disarmament demands, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said.

Mr Powell dismissed the moves as "tricks" designed to fool the international community into believing that Iraq was complying by co-operating only in process and not in substance.

"That is all process, it is not substance," Mr Powell told the UN Security Council. "These are all tricks that are being played on us."

AFP