Iraq disarmament crisis: The Turkish speaker of Parliament voids the vote accepting U.S. troops involved in the planned invasion of Iraq into Turkey on constitutional grounds. 264 votes for and 250 against accepting 62,000 U.S. military personnel do not constitute the necessary majority under the Turkish constitution, due to 19 abstentions. [1]
Under U.N. supervision, Iraq begins destroying four of its Al Samoud missiles.
The United Arab Emirates calls for Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to step down to avoid war. The sentiment is later echoed by Kuwait and Bahrain.
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(New York, March1, 2003) Human Rights Watch today called on the Egyptian authorities to arrest and prosecute two visiting senior Iraqi officials implicated in crimes of genocide, mass murder and torture.
Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, vice-chairman of Iraq's ruling Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) and deputy commander-in-chief of Iraqs armed forces during Iraq's 1988 campaign of genocide against the countrys Kurdish population, is attending an Arab statessummit meeting in the Egyptian city of Sharm al-Sheikh scheduled to be held on Saturday, March1.
In 1970 he sat on a special court that sentenced forty-two persons to immediate execution for their alleged roles in a coup attempt against the government.
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