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...indicted and later pleaded guilty when a judge did not accept that he was sending and receiving over the Net pornographic pictures of children while researching a story about online pedophiles. Operation Avalanche, the investigation that netted Townshend, began in the U.S. in spring 1999 when a postal inspector came across Landslide, a husband-and-wife operation out of Fort Worth, Texas, that offered access to a variety of child-porn websites for $29.95 a month...
American and British officials were more excited about another exercise by the inspectors the same day. British sources say about a thousand pages of documents relating to Iraqi weapons programs were seized, under protest, after inspectors visited the homes of two scientists in Baghdad. White House officials said the documents deal with nuclear programs; Mohamed ElBaradei, the U.N.'s chief nuclear inspector, later indicated that the trove includes details of an old enriched-uranium project. There may be more such discoveries ahead. Both the British and the Americans are giving the inspectors intelligence leads (the British claim responsibility...
...Despite the unpleasantness, the inspectors continue to search. They have already visited nearly 400 sites, and every day, different teams continue to fan out across the country. Suspicion over mosques as hiding places has been raised by Saddam's frenetic mosque-building over the last decade. "From our satellite images we can see roofs, but we needed to check what lies below them," says Dimitri Perricos, the head of Planning and Operations, UNMOVIC. "The first job to do is to enter the building because the most important thing is the inspector...
...White House would be better served to give inspectors the time they need to do their job. Chief weapons inspector Hans Blix has declared there remain many outstanding questions regarding Iraq’s weapons programs. If the U.S. puts its intelligence resources behind inspections, as others on the Security Council are urging, the U.N. may be successful in disarming Iraq peacefully. If a peaceful solution is not possible, then finding a smoking gun during an inspection is still the only way the U.S. can legitimize its calls for war to the rest of the world. We understand the CIA?...
...After hearing from chief inspector Hans Blix on January 27, the Council is likely to respond favorably to his request for more time and ask him to report again in February. That may increase the inclination of administration hawks to simply discard the UN process Washington initiated last September, and march on Baghdad without UN authorization. Blair, for his part, will likely be trying to persuade Bush against such a course, in the belief that inspections assisted by Western intelligence are certain to, sooner or later, make an incontrovertible case for war. But the deployment of a massive invasion armada...