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That fits the diplomatic timetable too. Hans Blix, the head United Nations weapons inspector, who returns from Baghdad this week, will report to the U.N. Security Council on Feb. 14 on the degree of Iraqi disarmament and cooperation. On the good assumption that Blix will not give Saddam Hussein's regime a clean bill of health, Security Council members are beginning to consider the shape of a final resolution, though no drafts have yet been circulated...
...After Blix reports, deliberations in New York City are bound to take a week or so. And it's a given that Saddam will try to pull some diplomatic stunts to avoid an invasion, as he did in 1991, although President George W. Bush last week made it plain that the U.S. would not tolerate such a "last-minute game of deception. The game is over." So it will probably be sometime during those moonless nights at the beginning of March that the diplomatic phase will finally end and the military one begin. The timing of that endgame has apparently...
...several sources, French Foreign Minister de Villepin was openly agitated--"shrill," said one observer--at the meetings in New York last week. ("All you talk about is war. That's all you want to talk about," de Villepin said to Powell at a lunch after his speech.) But if Blix returns from Baghdad with a report damning Saddam, he will give the French a ladder to humbly climb down, the U.S. will have its resolution, and Saddam will have a few days to figure out whether to save his hide in exile or face the might of American armed forces...
...believes the old evidence is good enough to justify action. Administration officials argue that the issue of proof has gone topsy-turvy. They say Saddam has to prove he doesn't have banned weapons, but skeptics insist the U.S. needs to prove he is, in fact, hiding them. Hans Blix, the chief inspector hunting biological and chemical weapons, provided the White House with an unanticipated boost when his Jan. 27 report to the Security Council gave Saddam's cooperation low marks and complained that Iraq had shown no "genuine acceptance" of full disarmament. That played beautifully into the Administration...
...months ago, they were hoping to finish the job of dismantling Saddam's weapons. They have searched for any trace of biological, chemical or nuclear munitions. They have found 12 empty warheads, among other suspect items. While Iraq has opened the doors to Saddam's palaces, chief inspector Hans Blix says they are still playing hide-and-seek. --By Mitch Frank...