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...comply. Even as the inspectors have upgraded their technology and know-how, of course, Saddam has spent the past four years conjuring new ways of keeping his most prized weapons out of reach. "The case of Iraq has stimulated all these new [inspection] techniques," chief weapons inspector Hans Blix, 74, the Swedish head of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), told TIME. "The troubling thing is that those who want to hide things are also becoming aware. The question is, Who is ahead...
...test begins with the arrival in Iraq of Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is based in Vienna and is responsible for tracking Iraq's nuclear capabilities. The two diplomats will be accompanied by about 25 advisers and logistics staffers, who will reopen and begin outfitting the former Baghdad offices of the U.N. inspectors who left Iraq in 1998. Under the rules approved by the Security Council, Iraq must provide the U.N. with a full inventory of any weapons of mass destruction by Dec. 8. Though Saddam says he doesn't possess...
When is a flat tire simply a flat tire and when is it an act of sabotage that could ignite a war? As head of UNMOVIC, the U.N. inspection team charged with overseeing Iraqi disarmament, Hans Blix arrived in Baghdad last week to face such momentous questions. After touching down at Saddam International Airport, Blix fielded reporters' questions before being whisked away to the Al Rasheed Hotel. Iraqi Lieut. General Amer al Saadi later hosted talks with Blix and praised the Swedish diplomat's "integrity and impartiality." Blix thanked him for his "warm welcome," but added a sly reference...
...heard that Hans Blix is soft. I'm not a pacifist. Diplomacy has to be backed by force...
...Blix, 74, has been entrusted with judgment calls that could delay or hasten war. He downplays the difficulty of his job - knowing when Iraq is trying to thwart his inspectors, he says, will "be a matter of common sense." Until last week the closest Blix had come to Baghdad in recent years was the satellite photo of the Iraqi capital that dominates one wall of his spartan office at U.N. headquarters in New York. The space reflects both Blix's low-key personality as well as the fact that nobody took UNMOVIC that seriously until two months ago, when President...