Word: inspector
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...were locked away in a back room. The locals say that government teachers show up on a regular basis, but the kids only go to school when a party official comes and tells them to. When he leaves, so do the children. The books are only issued when an inspector comes to visit and then immediately collected up until the next inspection...
...exact role of the United Nations in a post-Saddam Iraq remains the subject of intense transatlantic debate, but one certainty is that chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix will have no part in it. "My contract expires at the end of June," Blix told TIME on Thursday, "and I do not propose to stay beyond that." Not that the news will likely have much effect on the Bush administration's plans. There has been strong speculation in diplomatic and political circles that the Pentagon is currently assembling its own team of weapons experts in Kuwait, possibly under the direction...
...inspector says that the Pentagon must be careful not to fall into an Iraqi trap. He suspects that the movement of substantial numbers of Iraqi Republican Guard units southwards from Baghdad to confront advancing U.S. forces may be an attempt to create a battlefield situation favorable to the use of weapons of mass destruction. ?If Iraq still has chemical weapons it wants to use,? he says, ?it would want to cause as much damage as possible in one short attack. Therefore, the U.S. needs to be careful not to amass large numbers of troops in any central location.? The most...
...However, says the U.N. inspector, ?the Iraqis have problems delivering their WMD in a militarily effective manner.? He reveals that more than 70% of Baghdad's declared and suspected WMD were in ?aerial? form-meaning they were designed to be delivered by aircraft. Since Operation Desert Storm, the Iraqi Air Force has almost ceased to exist. The U.N. inspector also added that any biological weapons that Iraq might still possess would ?not cause much of a problem for the U.S. forces.? He explained that the Pentagon is familiar with most or all of Baghdad's suspected bio weapons...
...added that Iraq's exotic weapons programs also involved the use of psycho-tropic agents similar to LSD. ?They were not meant to kill, just incapacitate, confuse,? says the inspector. This had been designed, he says, as a means to fight off rag-tag Iranian forces in the late 1980?s during the long war between Baghdad and Tehran. The other WMD weapons Iraq may still have were initially designed to ?fight off Iranian human wave attacks, they really weren't meant against a force like the U.S. military...