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Blix Wants Inspectors in Iraq
Associate Press via Yahoo News ^
| 17 April 2003
| TONY CZUCZKA
Posted on 04/17/2003 7:44:32 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Blix Wants Inspectors in Iraq
By TONY CZUCZKA, Associated Press Writer
BERLIN - The chief U.N. weapons inspector for Iraq (news - web sites) urged the U.S.-led coalition to allow his team back into the country to look for weapons of mass destruction, saying that would increase the credibility of any discoveries, a magazine reported Thursday.
Hans Blix, who was in charge of searches for chemical and biological weapons and long-range missiles in Iraq, also challenged President Bush (news - web sites)'s administration to present proof of its allegation that Syria has chemical weapons.
"Whoever claims this should, in the interests of credibility, very quickly present the relevant proof," Blix said in an interview with the German weekly Der Spiegel. "For my part, I doubt that the Syrians would have been enthusiastic to serve as a depot of weapons of mass destruction for Baghdad."
Weapons inspectors left Iraq days before war in Iraq began. In explaining their decision to invade, the United States and Britain charged that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s regime had weapons of mass destruction.
"Now we will see whether London and Washington were right," Blix told Der Spiegel. "I am very curious and can only wish them luck in their search."
The Bush administration, which blamed Blix for hampering its drive to win international support for war, has not invited U.N. inspectors to take part in disarming postwar Iraq. Instead, the United States has tried to hire away some inspectors and has deployed its own teams to search for weapons of mass destruction.
Blix said internationally backed inspections would have "considerably more credibility."
"The alliance came as liberator and occupier, and that can prove to be a disadvantage," he told the magazine. "If its experts now should really discover weapons of mass destruction, their authenticity might be called into question."
Reports on Iraqi weapons programs that the inspectors received from intelligence agencies were "pretty pathetic" and led to no discoveries of weapons of mass destruction, Blix said.
The chief nuclear weapons inspector, Mohamed ElBaradei, even received forged documents meant to persuade the inspectors that Iraq had nuclear weapons ambitions, Blix said. He gave no details.
Blix, who has been invited to brief the U.N. Security Council on April 22, called for efforts to declare the entire Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction, "naturally including Israel."
Israel is widely believed to have nuclear weapons, though it has not officially acknowledged having them.
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KEYWORDS: blix; fat; jerk; windbag
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Incredible!
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posted on
04/17/2003 7:44:32 AM PDT
by
SkyPilot
To: SkyPilot
The chief U.N. weapons inspector for Iraq (news - web sites) urged the U.S.-led coalition to allow his team back into the country to look for weapons of mass destruction, saying that would increase the credibility of any discoveries, a magazine reported Thursday. Unfrickinbelieveable! This is a joke right?
To h*ll with the UN!! The whole sticking lot of them.
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posted on
04/17/2003 7:46:39 AM PDT
by
Wphile
(Keep the UN out of Iraq)
To: SkyPilot
Blix has got to be doing drugs.
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posted on
04/17/2003 7:47:08 AM PDT
by
mass55th
To: Wphile
The U.S. inspectors have been much more successful.
To: SkyPilot

Registered Democrat and overweight blowhard Hans Blix shows his contempt for GW Bush's father at this Baghdad Hotel lobby(Reuters)
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posted on
04/17/2003 7:48:11 AM PDT
by
SkyPilot
(CNN Reports--You Decide! (well,,,,,,not really))
To: SkyPilot
I wonder what a UN Inspector's above board salary is??
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posted on
04/17/2003 7:48:47 AM PDT
by
kjam22
To: SkyPilot
. . . da da da . . . What a Blix wants, what a Blix needs . . .
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posted on
04/17/2003 7:49:44 AM PDT
by
wideawake
(Support our troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
To: wideawake
Someone give him Viagra for his brain.
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posted on
04/17/2003 7:50:33 AM PDT
by
SkyPilot
(CNN Reports--You Decide! (well,,,,,,not really))
To: SkyPilot
Blix Wants Inspectors in Iraq
...because they did just a bang-up job last time?
If I weren't so pure and all, I'd say, "Hey Hans -- inspect THIS!", just to show my contempt for that whole disaster.
That's if I weren't so pure and all.
Dan
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posted on
04/17/2003 7:51:43 AM PDT
by
BibChr
(LIBERALISM = choices without consequences)
To: SkyPilot
Hanns wants his cushy job back. Where the whole World awaits with abated breath to hear his next report.
To: SkyPilot
I am getting really sick of UN people telling us how we need to behave and proceed.
Of course the only important point of the whole article is really the fact that the WMD is really going to be an attempt to force Israel to disarm its nukes. Everyone knows that the Muslims will just lie about their WMD programs while Israel would become the next focus for its retaining of Nukes.
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posted on
04/17/2003 7:52:55 AM PDT
by
Prysson
To: SkyPilot
I think it's a good idea. Obviously not a popular opinion here. It's the only way to reduce (not remove) the already-prepared claims that we planted whatever we find. Besides, we can point to it as proof of what the inspectors COULD have done, if only the Ba'ath regime had truly followed the UN resolutions. Ends up with the F-R-G axis of weasels looking even worse for not backing their own ideas.
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posted on
04/17/2003 7:52:59 AM PDT
by
m1911
To: SkyPilot
How come the criminal always returns to the scene of the crime ?
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posted on
04/17/2003 7:53:24 AM PDT
by
VRWC_minion
(Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
To: Falcon4.0
Hans has already announced his retirement.
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posted on
04/17/2003 7:53:35 AM PDT
by
m1911
To: SkyPilot
They guy needs to be slapped. Slapped real hard.
To: wideawake
US MArines announced they had found a large cache of chemicals in HAns Blix's nose. He's definitely on drugs.
The UN ceased to exist when the first cruise missile hit Bagdag. IT's over Hans. It's over Kofi. It's over France. It's over Canada. It's over MExico. IT's over Russia. It's over Germany.
The debating society will get no new fundings next year and cease to exist. Send this poor excuse for leaders to Paris to spend the rest of their lives unbathe, smoking horrible cigarettes and sipping coffee by a polluted river.
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posted on
04/17/2003 7:54:41 AM PDT
by
Kozy
To: SkyPilot
I think they should be sent to france germany russia N korea and china first
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posted on
04/17/2003 7:54:46 AM PDT
by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: SkyPilot
He should be updating his CV.
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posted on
04/17/2003 7:55:41 AM PDT
by
Search4Truth
(Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God - Thomas Jefferson.)
To: Kozy
Blix Lix Dix
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posted on
04/17/2003 7:56:11 AM PDT
by
mwl1
To: SkyPilot
..saying that would increase the credibility of any discoveries How's that likely?
Seems to me it would increase beauracratic red tape and grin things to a halt with the UNnecessary ones back in control.
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posted on
04/17/2003 7:57:51 AM PDT
by
evad
("We'll put a boot in yer ass...it's the American way"..Toby)
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