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...Pentagon has repeatedly complained to the U.N. about suspected bio agents being shuffled around Iraq in ?refrigerator vans.? Chief U.N. arms inspector Dr. Hans Blix told the Security Council in February that his teams ?had been unable to track down the refrigerator vans in question...
...They (the weapons) could be in railroad cars, barges or refrigerator trucks. They are being kept on the move,? explained the former arms inspector. The arms expert says by keeping the weapons on the move, they make an attack by coalition forces more difficult. Furthermore, he explained they could be shifted around the country as ?conditions warrant...
...political need to show they exist. President Bush and Tony Blair have insisted that this war is an act of preemptive self-defense against Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, while most of the UN Security Council remains unconvinced. Even as the first air strikes began, chief UN weapons inspector Dr. Hans Blix publicly chided U.S. "impatience" to go to war, and questioned the veracity of U.S. and British claims on Iraq's weapons programs. The geopolitics of the post-Saddam era will be made considerably easier for Bush and Blair if they can get some egg on Blix's face...
Iraq first invites U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix to Baghdad. Bush pledges to consult with Congress and allies before acting. He promises to “explore all options and all tools at my disposal; diplomacy, international pressure, perhaps the military” but maintains that regime change is necessary in Iraq...
RESIGNING. JANET REHNQUIST, 45, as Inspector General of the Health and Human Services Department; on June 1; amid a congressional investigation into her conduct; in Washington. the daughter of Chief Justice William Rehnquist was under fire for, among other things, seeking to delay an audit of a Florida pension fund until after the re-election of governor Jeb Bush, and possessing an unauthorized gun in her office...