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U.N. resolutions require that sanctions remain in place until Iraq destroys its capacity for creating chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons . Last December, the United Nations eased up on the sanctions, allowing Iraq to sell $2-billion worth of oil every six months on the condition that the profits go toward food for Iraq's people and war reparations to Kuwait.
Neither this designation nor UN sanctions had much additional practical effect; the sanctions were easily circumvented, and there were no multilateral mechanisms to ensure that other countries' financial systems were not used as conduits for terrorist funding.
The Washington Post leads with a lengthy article on the reasons--stated and unstated--that U.S. special forces help train foreign troops, even in countries under U.S. sanctions.
Clinton asked the group to withdraw its support for legislation aiming to reduce religious persecution overseas by imposing sanctions because he said such bills put enormous pressure on whoever is in the executive branch to fudge an evaluation of the facts of what is going on."
Security Council is near agreement on a resolution that would suspend the nine-year-old sanctions against Iraq in exchange for its compliance with international arms inspections.