Blix: 'US undermined inspectors'

[MIKE BURN]

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BBC Tuesday, 22 April, 2003, 15:16 GMT 16:16 UK



American officials tried to discredit the work of inspectors in Iraq to further their own case for war, the chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix has charged.

In an interview with the BBC, Mr Blix said American officials leaked suggestions that inspectors had deliberately suppressed information to the media in an attempt to undermine their work in Iraq.



Excerpts of the interview were released just before Mr Blix went to address the Security Council in a meeting that could begin to determine whether he and his team are ever to return to Iraq.



Inspectors were withdrawn shortly before the US launched a war to topple Saddam Hussein, whom Washington insists possessed weapons of mass destruction.



The US has since deployed its own teams to look for weapons, which it cited as the key reason for launching war, but so far none are reported to have been found.



Many nations on the Security Council say UN inspectors should be the ones to verify any new discoveries, and Mr Blix says his team could return to Iraq within two weeks if he was told to do so.



'Disturbing'



Mr Blix said that in the run-up to war, the US had seized on his alleged failure to include details of a drone and cluster bomb found in Iraq in his oral presentations to the Council.



"The US was very eager to sway the votes in the Security Council, and they felt that stories about these things would be useful to have, and they let it out," he said.



"And thereby they tried to hurt us a bit and say that we had suppressed this.



"It was not the case, and it was a bit unfair, and hurt us. [We] felt a little displeased about it."



He also reiterated his disquiet at how documents the International Atomic Energy Agency "had no great difficulty finding out were fake" managed to get through US and UK intelligence analysis.



Also disturbing, he said, was the question of who was responsible for the falsification.





US unenthusiastic



Washington has so far shown little interest in the return of UN inspectors to Iraq.



On Monday officials repeated that they saw "no immediate role for Dr Blix and his inspection teams".



Although no decision is likely to be made soon, correspondents say Tuesday's meeting could be the start of a diplomatic initiative aimed at persuading the Bush administration of the benefits to be gained from allowing the UN inspectors back.



The argument from many on the council is that independent UN verification that the weapons have been destroyed would help to win international support for the swift lifting of economic sanctions against Iraq.

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[Seismic Anamoly]

And I'm a victim of propaganda.



Guess it takes one to supposedly know one.

[debbie mannas]

Wheres the propaganda?? This is straight from the horses mouth.



The BS of WMDs that Blair and Powell used were BS - that too has been proven.



Do you guys in the US get ANY objective news at all?



bush and his gang are thieves and murderers.



And the new administrator of Iraq, Garner, is now going to be living in Saddam's palace. Poor thing.

[Phil Frazier]

Anyone with three functional grey cells knows it was Never about WMD.

[DreamTone7]

It was about WMD......and many other things as well. But since you opened this one up, how many reasons can you name, Phil? Let's see how many we can come up with! (I did mention in another post that, historically speaking, the US never goes to war for only one reason or justification. I believe that Iraq is no exception.)

[Seismic Anamoly]

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This is straight from the horses mouth.

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Ohhhh...NOW I see how we "play the game" in here....



YOU post a quote and a link to an article that's agreeable to YOUR point of view and it's straight "from the Horse's Mouth"...



I or DT or whoever disagrees with your viewpoint post a quote and a link to an article supporting OUR viewpoint, and it's purely, undoubtedly "Propaganda".



Horse's Mouth? More like a JackAss....



What an undeniable Farce.



Keep up the "Crusade"; everyone needs a good laugh now and again.

Edited by: Seismic Anamoly at: 4/23/03 4:11:17 am

[LarreeMP3]

I think the UN should be kicked out of America so we can use that beautiful building for low-income housing.

[debbie mannas]

Straight from the horse's mouth means here, to those that dont understand, that Hans Blix has spoken based on his OWN findings. He was leading the inspections.



Bush, blair and camp on the other hand, made up stories, plagarised material, used forged documents...



See?

[LarreeMP3]

Hans (sucks) Blix didn't find anything because he was in the pocket of France, Germany, and Russia keeping their gravy train alive. I believe Blix as far as I can throw him. He is about as believable as Scott Peterson.

[Seismic Anamoly]

Cute; moving posts around now....getting desparate these days, aren't we?

Edited by: Seismic Anamoly at: 4/24/03 2:39:58 pm

[debbie mannas]

Well that's what "straight from the horse's mouth" means. When somebody who has been there tells the story and its not passed down from person to person.



I'm glad you see now. miracles do happen after all.

[Galmin]

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Hans (sucks) Blix didn't find anything because he was in the pocket of France, Germany, and Russia keeping their gravy train alive. I believe Blix as far as I can throw him. He is about as believable as Scott Peterson.

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Dr. Hans Blix has immense integrity. Far more than you or GWB could possibly fathom. End of story.

[Galmin]

 

Edited by: Galmin  at: 4/24/03 9:02:21 am

[Seismic Anamoly]

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I think the UN should be kicked out of America so we can use that beautiful building for low-income housing.

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Excellent!! Let's Roll!