Original sentence: Western charges of Iraqi resistance to UN access to suspected weapons increased tensions between 1997 and 1998, culminating in intensive U
Edited sentence: It now appears more likely that Iraq was playing a game of bluff, hoping to convince the Western powers and the other Arab states that Iraq was still a power to be reckoned with, than that Iraq was hiding significant stockpiles of prohibited materials.Some speculated that it was in retaliation for Iraq's sponsorship of a plot to kill former President George H.Western charges of Iraqi resistance to UN access to suspected weapons were the pretext for crises between 1997 and 1998, culminating in intensive U