[Burr5]

"...they have cooperated in talking to us."

Since when do "responsible" news organizations take a comment like that and blow it up into Blix saying they're being cooperative in the negotiations?

Unbelievable.

[layman]

One of the questions Mr. Blix should ask the Iraq officials is 'Do you promise to treat us nice when you take us hostage'? He should know this will happen. Hussein knows he is going down. Have we so soon forgotten that hostage taking is standard procedure in the Arab world?