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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...
...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's fundamental argument that...
...most controversial items are still those infamous aluminum tubes Iraq tried to procure. Bush asserted again in his State of the Union address that they were for constructing centrifuges to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons. But the chief nuclear inspector, Mohamed ElBaradei, has reported his expert conclusion that they were for legal artillery rockets. The Administration intends to show that ElBaradei is wrong--that these are specially calibrated, high-tensile-strength tubes able to take more stress than regular missile tubes and that the Iraqis paid 50 times the $1 market price for conventional pipes...
When U.N. inspectors returned to Baghdad two 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...
...they don't share the conclusion that Iraq represents a sufficient danger to its neighbors or the West to justify the risks of war. But if Powell's allegations of Iraq's systematic efforts to deceive and evade the inspection and disarmament process are born out by chief weapons inspector Dr. Hans Blix in his Valentine's Day report, even the most reluctant Council members may be left with little option but to support or accept a resolution authorizing force...