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Speaking on condition of anonymity, IAEA investigators said they would be "surprised, but not necessarily shocked" if coalition scientists uncovered illegal atomic weapons production at Al-Tuwaitha.

Not exactly an appropriate sense of urgency, or a high level of confidence in their own process.

These IAEA authorities insisted they had extensively probed Al-Tuwaitha when they returned, and had begun to make significant progress before hostilities broke out between Iraq and the United States.

How significant does it have to be? If there was anything significantly different from the last time they were there the flag should have gone up. It didn't.

"To date we have found no evidence or plausible indication of the revival of a nuclear weapons program in Iraq," wrote IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradeiin his final report on Iraqi inspections in March.

Dirty bomb development notwithstanding.

I hate bureaucrats.

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>>>said they would be "surprised, but not necessarily shocked"

I suppose they were only surprised, not shocked when NK showed them the bombs they developed in the back room while the so called inspectors were outside.

These UN inspectors and inspections are worthless excercises.