(2002-09-08) -- As Saddam Hussein celebrates more than a decade of ignoring United Nations sanctions against Iraq, the U.N. today threatened him again by counting to three. However, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan counted quite slowly, stretching out the pronunciation of each number, then pausing after "2" to say, "I mean it this time."

When the counting failed to spark action, Annan tried the time-tested 'saying of the full name': "Saddam Patrick Hussein, I'm not going to tell you again."

However, Annan did tell him again, and the Iraqi leader plugged his ears with his index fingers and shouted "LA-LA-LA-LA I can't hear you!"

Monday, the U.N. Security Council will take up the issue of "time out" for the entire nation of Iraq.

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