MEMBERS OF THE BAATH PARTY MARCH AFTER A MILITARY EXERCISE IN BAGHDAD, 2003-02-05 (photo)

Members of the ruling Baath party march after a military exercise in Baghdad February 5, 2003. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that the United Nations risked irrelevance if it did not act in response to alleged Iraqi violations of U.N. resolutions. In a presentation that included U.S. intelligence from spy satellites, telephone intercepts and Iraqi defectors, Powell argued that Iraq had concealed equipment from its suspected weapons programs to flout the U.N. inspectors searching the country for evidence of chemical, biological and nuclear arms. REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber FK/WS