Word: blix
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...Powell behind-the-scenes: At a closed-doors lunch after Friday's meeting with the U.N.'s chief weapons inspectors, Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei, Powell made an emotional last appeal for support, telling the other ministers that the U.S. would never have come to the U.N. to begin with if it were hell-bent on war. Powell's speech may have softened the hearts of wavering member states: one U.N. ambassador at the lunch told TIME Powell's speech "inspirational...
...than any risk posed by going to war; the world, and Iraq in particular, will be a better place without Saddam's regime. But given the timing of the press conference - on the eve of yet another presentation to the divided UN Security Council by chief weapons inspector Hans Blix - the key question he left unanswered was asked early on: Why do so many people around the world differ with Washington's view of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, and how to deal with it. Because it is that difference that has frustrated the administration's attempts...
...reason President Bush was out there in the visibly uncomfortable setting of a press conference is precisely that he knows that Blix plans to deliver yet another ambiguous report on Friday: Iraq has failed to cooperate to the extent demanded by Security Council Resolution 1441, but mounting pressure has produced important and encouraging moves towards complying, and inspections should be given more time and intensified. Blix will cite Iraq's destruction of a medium range missile that exceeds UN-imposed limits for Iraq, some unimpeded interviews with scientists and production of further evidence on chemical and biological programs. Bush...
...when Blix says Iraq is cooperating only to the extent that it feels compelled by the military buildup, the U.S. claims vindication of its view that Saddam has no real intention of disarming, and must therefore be forcibly removed. But the antiwar coalition at the Security Council sees the same report as evidence of the effectiveness of containment - that Saddam's behavior is being conditioned by the threat of force. Extending inspections and even setting new specific demands on Iraq, in this view, offers a chance of peacefully disarming Iraq, and functions as a deterrent on prohibited weapons programs...
...diplomatic dance among the U.S., its allies and Iraq, one man stands right in the middle--United Nations chief weapons inspector Hans Blix. So last Thursday, nine days before he was to deliver an update on his search for Iraqi weapons to the Security Council, a group of TIME writers and editors visited Blix at his U.N. office for an exclusive interview. Going beyond the customary diplomatic rhetoric, Blix spoke frankly about the Iraqis, saying "Of course, they have no credibility...