Word: blix
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...White House would be better served to give inspectors the time they need to do their job. Chief weapons inspector Hans Blix has declared there remain many outstanding questions regarding Iraq’s weapons programs. If the U.S. puts its intelligence resources behind inspections, as others on the Security Council are urging, the U.N. may be successful in disarming Iraq peacefully. If a peaceful solution is not possible, then finding a smoking gun during an inspection is still the only way the U.S. can legitimize its calls for war to the rest of the world. We understand the CIA?...
...UNMOVIC [U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission] expected to get records of production, destruction, physical evidence of where remnants of some of the stuff has been destroyed. The declaration [and inspections so far] shed no new light on any of these issues. So that's why [UNMOVIC chief Hans] Blix keeps saying, "I don't have any evidence, but I cannot exclude the possibility." In light of the Iraqi past record of concealment and deceit, that's obviously not good enough for the Security Council. The uncertainty is too wide for the council to accept...
...confused with its determination to wage one--seemed to slip. An assortment of forces sought to throw the U.S. off its appointment in Baghdad. The mushrooming crisis in North Korea clamored for Bush's attention. There were Thursday's reports from the chiefs of the U.N. inspection teams, Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei, that while Iraq has not made "a serious effort" to comply substantively with inspectors' requests, the teams probably will not produce a smoking gun by Jan. 27. That disclosure emboldened several key states to wobble, including faithful Britain. Its ambassador to the U.N., Jeremy Greenstock, told reporters...
...with the names of 500 experts involved in banned research, but that is a woefully inadequate number, since U.N. officials say they know of at least 2,000 who have been involved in past nuclear programs alone. The U.S. has its own target list, which officials plan to hand Blix soon. Some Bush aides expect Iraq to refuse access to its best experts, which would constitute a damning material breach of Resolution 1441. "Blix will have to ask to interview them; otherwise he's not exercising the mandate given to him," says a Pentagon official. "If Iraq complies, Bush gets...
...factor that determines the timetable of a war against Iraq. The U.S. and Britain have not allowed the vagaries of the inspection process to delay their troop deployments, and by mid-February they plan to have as many as 250,000 soldiers stationed in the region. Blix and the UN will use their presence to impress on Iraq the importance of doing the inspectors' bidding, and Arab governments will use it to make the case for Baghdad going along with an as-yet unspecified eleventh-hour diplomatic solution. Domestic political and economic concerns, the state of uncertainty in the world...