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TIME's Massimo Calabresi talks to the former U.N. weapons inspector and current critic of President Bush's Iraq policy about Saddam Hussein's weapons capabilities, espionage, fitness tapes and more. An excerpt...
...Postal Inspection Service estimates that combined domestic and international postal fraud now costs as much as $1 billion a year, up from $500 million in 1993. "International fraud is certainly an area where we are putting a lot more effort," says Tom Brady, the assistant postal inspector in charge of the Southwest division in Fort Worth, Texas. In May, Brady helped launch the Business Mailing Industry Task Force, an alliance between merchants and government agencies...
...Beverly Hills is a nice place to be a rat." RAY HONDA, Los Angeles county health inspector, commenting on the tony California town's recent rodent infestation...
...Even if inspectors return to Iraq with expanded powers, can they document, uncover and dismantle Saddam's full arsenal more completely than their predecessors? (From 1991 to 1998, monitors found hundreds of tons of chemical agents, dismantled more than 800 Scud missiles and wiped out Saddam's budding nuclear program, but they didn't come close to uncovering everything.) The U.S. has even less confidence in inspections after a hiatus: Saddam has had the past four years to hone his concealment skills. In eight years of efforts to uncover Iraq's stockpiles, "we taught them what we could find...
...Some items on the inspectors' checklist - like suspected nuclear workshops and long-range ballistic missiles that require large stationary facilities - are relatively easy to spot. The man charged with finding them, iaea chief inspector Jacques Baute, said last week his nuclear-inspections team is equipped to uncover any bombs: "If you have the right people and use the right techniques, your probability of catching the offender is high." Since 1998, the IAEA has been analyzing satellite photos for signs that Saddam is pursuing nukes. Last month those photos produced images of new buildings going up at a former Iraqi weapons...