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The Guardian had a misleading chronology, which reported correctly that on 31 October 1998 Iraq ended all cooperation with UNSCOM, but not including the information that UNSCOM then withdrew itself/was withdrawn by the UN before the US/UK bombardment (also featured in chronology) ('Battle for Gulf supremacy', 17 Feb, p. 3) The Guardian also misreported the issue of the legality of the no-fly-zones, saying that the southern and northern NFZs were 'originally designated by the United Nations but enforced now only by the US and Britain' ('Allied planes bomb Baghdad', 17 Feb, p. 1) letters: letters@guardian.co.uk corrections: reader@guardian.co.uk You may wish to point out that on UNSCOM the Telegraph got it right on p. 1 - 'UN inspectors pulled out before a series of intensive American and British raids in December 1998 and Iraq has refused to allow them to return' (final para.) and the FT got it right on p. 6 - '... Iraq has blocked UN armaments inspection teams, which evacuated the country ahead of the last significant US attack in December 1998, from returning.' ('Raid may deepen split within UN') -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk Full details of CASI's various lists can be found on the CASI website: http://www.casi.org.uk