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Inspectors fail to find smoking gun
(Sarah Left and Mark Oliver, The Guardian, January 27, 2003)
In a plain-speaking and detailed speech, the head of the UN weapons inspection team, Hans Blix, today provided no "smoking gun" that would indicate Iraq has built up an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, but said that obstructions, inconsistencies and unanswered questions showed Iraq was not fully cooperating with inspectors. . . . "Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance, not even today, of the disarmament that was demanded of it," he told the security council. . . . The US ambassador to the UN, John Negroponte, immediately responded that he saw no evidence that Iraq will comply with UN resolutions. . . . Mr Blix's findings will probably not be enough to provide security council members China, France and Russia with a casus belli. They have all publicly favoured allowing more time for weapons inspections. . . . Making a diplomatic plea to continue his work, Mr Blix noted that the previous inspection regime destroyed more weapons of mass destruction than the first Gulf war. . . . "Our work is steadily progressing and should be allowed to continue its natural course," Mr El Baradei told the council. "With our verification system now in place, barring exceptional circumstances and providing there is sustained, proactive cooperation by Iraq, we should be able in the next few months to provide credible assurance that Iraq has no nuclear weapon programme. . . . "These few months in my view would be a valuable investment in peace because it would help us avoid a war," he said.

posted by LoZo 12:47 PM