Saddam Hussein and his Iraqi counterparts aren't dumb, that's for sure.

However, if Iraq doesn't "produce results" before the U.N. Security Council meets on Friday, his country will be smarting in the near future.

Iraq has been playing Russian Roulette with the United States, Great Britain and other allies in recent weeks by playing a shell game with nuclear weapons, reports on such weapons and by hiding Iraqi scientists.

Now that the U.N. has demanded answers on the latest games that Iraq is playing, Saddam and his cohorts will likely find a different shell game for the Security Council and countries like Germany, France and Russia to play.

If the leaders of those countries don't think Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, they have their heads in the sand.

Fortunately, the U.N. is finally demanding the same answers the United States has been seeking all along.

Where are the weapons? How involved were Iraqi scientists in the development of these weapons? How many are there?

These are questions that chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix must have answers to in the coming days.

If not, grave consequences will be brought against a country that continues to be a thorn in the side for the rest of the free world.