Posted on 10/27/2004 1:28:58 PM PDT by Prince Charles
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The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec)
January 10, 2003 Friday Final Edition
SECTION: News; Pg. A4
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HEADLINE: UN inspectors find no 'smoking gun': Diplomats back off on war deadline. Blix charges Iraq with violating sanctions against importation of missile engines
SOURCE: Southam News; The Gazette contributed to this report
BYLINE: JOE LAURIA, SEAN GORDON of The Gazette contributed to this report
DATELINE: UNITED NATIONS
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Also, Mohammed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Iraq had not accounted for a quantity of HMX explosives, which can have a dual industrial and military use. The IAEA has also been unable to pin down evidence to confirm reports that Iraq has tried to import uranium.
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Detroit Free Press
January 10, 2003 Friday 0 EDITION
LENGTH: 933 words
HEADLINE: Iraq not telling all, UN reports; Dozens of fighter aircraft joining troops in region
BYLINE: FREE PRESS NEWS SERVICES
DATELINE: WASHINGTON -- United Nations inspectors reported Thursday that Iraq has failed to disclose its weapons programs and cooperate fully with disarmament efforts
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ElBaradei told the council that UN nuclear experts were trying to track down 32 missing tons of a high explosive known as HMX, which was placed under UN seal in 1998 and could be used to detonate a nuclear bomb.
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January 9, 2003, Thursday, BC cycle
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HEADLINE: U.N. inspectors: Iraq must cooperate on scientist interviews; criticize Baghdad for violations
BYLINE: By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: UNITED NATIONS
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ElBaradei said inspectors were investigating what happened to 32 tons of HMX high explosive that Iraq says was turned into industrial explosive but which can also be used to detonate nuclear weapons.
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The Boston Globe
January 10, 2003, Friday ,THIRD EDITION
SECTION: NATIONAL/FOREIGN; Pg. A1
LENGTH: 1101 words
HEADLINE: Globe correspondent Joe Lauria contributed to this report from the United Nations.;
NO 'SMOKING GUN' FOUND, BUT IRAQ IS CALLED EVASIVE
BYLINE: By Anne E. Kornblut, Globe Staff
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Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei - director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which conducts nuclear inspections - told the Security Council that Iraq had admitted importing missile engines and raw material used for making solid missle fuel. Both actions, which were disclosed in the weapons declaration, would violate UN resolutions that limit Iraq's import of restricted material.
Inspectors are also trying to find out what happened to more than 30 tons of HMX, a high explosive that can be used to detonate nuclear weapons. Iraqi officials insist it was put to industrial use.
At a press conference following their report to the UN Security Council, Blix and ElBaradei said that inspectors have been getting insufficient cooperation from the Iraqis in their attempts to interview scientists, interviews that are considered to be the crucial element of their investigation and the method most likely to yield information about Iraq's weapons.
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SHOW: CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL 10:00
February 14, 2003 Friday
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HEADLINE: U.N. Inspectors Report to Council
GUESTS: Ken Pollack, Joseph Wilson
BYLINE: Wolf Blitzer, Christiane Amanpour, Paula Zahn, Richard Roth, John King, Andrea Koppel
HIGHLIGHT: The Security Council meets to listen to and discuss Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei's reports. The situation obviously is critical right now, as the United States prepares for the possibility of war.
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JOSHKA FISCHER: I thank Dr. Blix for his briefing.
I now give the floor to Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The floor is yours.
DR. MOHAMED ELBARADEI, DIRECTOR GENERAL, IAEA: Mr. President, my report to the Council today is an update on the status of IAEA's nuclear verification activities is Iraq pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1441 and other relevant resolutions.
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We have also continued to investigate the relocation and consumption of the high explosive HMX. As I reported earlier, Iraq has declared that 32 tons of the HMX previously under IAEA seals had been transferred for use in the production of industrial explosives, primarily to cement plants as a booster for explosives used in quarrying.
Iraq has provided us with additional information, including documentation on the movement and use of this material, and inspections have been conducted at locations where the material is said to have been used. However, given the nature of the use of high explosives, it may well be that the IAEA will be unable to reach a final conclusion on the end use of this material.
While we have no indication that this material was used for any application other than that declared by Iraq, we have no technical method of verifying quantitatively the declared use of the material in explosions.
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Links to the actual articles would greatly enhance your thread.
Good find!
Also, the IAEA was supposed to destroy those explosives, not just put a seal on them.
THEY GOOD AND ARE TRYING TO BLAME US!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't think you can link to Lexis/Nexis, that's a subscriber service.
and if you follow the same reporting via lexis nexis through january -march 2003 you will find that in january IAEA inspected/inventoried @170 tons of hmx at al qa qaa and sealed the bunkers.
the last inspection of al qa qaa in march 2003 checked the seals on the hmx and they were still intact.
The articles are stored on Lexis-Nexis. I doubt that the news services themselves would have the articles online, except for maybe CNN.
Ooops...
Great find. You should send to the usual suspects.
Great find. You should send to the usual suspects.
That still doesn't account for the 32 tons that went missing and which Saddam said were used for "mining."
THere was an inspection by 101st Airborn and at least 1 embedded reporter after that.
Also, Iraq plainly admits breaking the IAEA seals on the bunkers and pilfering the proscribed HMX.
Sadam payed princely sums to the UN to look the other way.
When are the Democrats going to start thinking for a change and stop being played.
Bingo.
"the last inspection of al qa qaa in march 2003 checked the seals on the hmx and they were still intact."
Yes the weapons they (the UN) lost they now are trying to say we lost. and the Boston Globe bless their heart has it all in print for the record (as they were trying to say iraq had no dangerous weapons or "smoking gun").
Time the MSM admitted this is a fraudulant story.
Did it occur to anyone, [esp Kerry] that the IAEA inspectors, knowing that Saddam had already removed tons of munitions in Jan, might have lied about those seals still being intact in March03 just to save face?
It appears that Steveeboy may be a troll. I was going to inquire about his source, but his account has already been banned.
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