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Blix lists 12 disarmament tasks left for Iraq
New Zealand Herald ^ | 18.03.2003 | REUTERS

Posted on 03/17/2003 8:01:37 PM PST by A_Niceguy_in_CA

Blix lists 12 disarmament tasks left for Iraq

UNITED NATIONS - Chief UN arms inspector Hans Blix produced a "to do" list of 12 disarmament tasks Iraq should fulfill as he began to withdraw his inspection ahead of a likely war.

Blix's "key remaining disarmament tasks" are required under a 1999 resolution that calls for a work programme Iraq is to undertake. The 83-page report was distributed to UN Security Council members today and obtained by Reuters.

Blix asks for explanations from Iraq in the following areas: Scud missiles and associated biological and chemical warheads; SA-2 missile technology; research and development of all missiles and their components; munitions for chemical and biological agents; and spray devices and drones.

On chemical and biological arms he asked for information on the deadly chemical VX gas and its precursors; mustard gas and its precursors; sarin, cyclosarin and their precursors; and any remaining stocks of anthrax and undeclared biological agents, including smallpox.

The report did not say Iraq was still harbouring dangerous arms but indicated clearly that inspectors were not satisfied with information Baghdad had given on its weapons of mass destruction.

Blix last week, in a fuller report on the outstanding questions, criticised Iraq for not declaring a drone some US officials say may be a "smoking gun." But he said his disarmament teams still had to determine if it was legal.

UN arms inspectors had said they discovered an undeclared Iraqi drone with a wingspan of 7.45m, suggesting an illegal range that could threaten Iraq's neighbours with chemical and biological weapons.

Blix also recently disputed Iraq's claim to have destroyed 21,000 litres of biological-warfare agents, including anthrax, 12 years ago.

The report, drawn up by Blix's UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, came on the day UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced he was pulling all UN staff out of Baghdad, including more than 100 inspectors, many of whom were seen packing their bags.

Earlier the United States, Britain and Spain gave up diplomacy at the United Nations, withdrew a UN Security Council draft resolution authorizing force and blamed France for not being able to get the minimum nine votes needed for adoption.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blix; hansblix; un; uninspectors; unitednational; unitednations
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To: BostonCajun
...and a partridge in a pear tree.
21 posted on 03/17/2003 8:21:14 PM PST by Young Rhino
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To: Young Rhino
Hans You can go in and we will show you how to find the WMD
22 posted on 03/17/2003 8:23:48 PM PST by scooby321
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To: MileHi
> Wow, Blix really doesn't get it...

And we need to thank him for making it so abundantly clear.

Truly another Daschle moment.

Increasingly, when I see these jaw-dropping news articles,
I have to double-check the byline and make sure they aren't
from some parody site.

If I were running a parody site, I'd be worried.
23 posted on 03/17/2003 8:24:05 PM PST by Boundless
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To: A_Niceguy_in_CA
In other news, Al Gore is suggesting that a recount of the Florida votes may prove that he actually won the 2000 Presidential election.
24 posted on 03/17/2003 8:24:06 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: A_Niceguy_in_CA
There are some articles that you have to look twice at. You *know* they just have to be from the Onion, or Scrappleface, or BNN, or some other satirical site. Then there are others, like this one, where you look a third time, shake your head sadly and realize that truth is *indeed* stranger than fiction.
25 posted on 03/17/2003 8:30:32 PM PST by No Truce With Kings (The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Thanks to all of you for the giggles you caused tonight. That's a good thing.
26 posted on 03/17/2003 8:30:55 PM PST by maranatha
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To: Boundless
If I were running a parody site, I'd be worried.

File this report under "truth is stranger than fiction." Blix and the French, oh my.

27 posted on 03/17/2003 8:32:06 PM PST by MileHi
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To: DallasMike
Someone here said it much better than I could. The Blixie Chix. Same talent, same intellect.
28 posted on 03/17/2003 8:32:46 PM PST by billhilly
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To: maranatha
Unless it starts with "Put your head between your legs" I don't see how it can be of any use now.
29 posted on 03/17/2003 8:33:12 PM PST by calljack
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To: ClearCase_guy
Oh, brother !LOL
30 posted on 03/17/2003 8:34:15 PM PST by MEG33
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To: A_Niceguy_in_CA
Blix is suffering from a severe case of 'Cranial Rectosis'.
31 posted on 03/17/2003 8:40:29 PM PST by CommandoFrank (Saddam's ass is grass and we own the lawn mower...)
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To: witnesstothefall
Hans Blix is the buffoon who thinks that global warming is a greater threat to mankind than all of Saddam's WMD's.

Poor bastard may have to go find a real job now.

32 posted on 03/17/2003 8:41:12 PM PST by TheGrimReaper (o)(o)
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To: TheGrimReaper
From UPI:

Late Monday night, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and U.N. Security Council announced plans to meet Wednesday to discuss the progress of weapons inspectors and their program for Iraq, though Annan said he had ordered the inspectors withdrawn from Iraq.

33 posted on 03/17/2003 8:48:13 PM PST by A_Niceguy_in_CA
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To: A_Niceguy_in_CA
Bush outlines one task for Blix. Go home.
34 posted on 03/17/2003 8:49:46 PM PST by cinFLA
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To: All
This is the same list Blix started with years ago AND MORE. The drone was something new.
35 posted on 03/17/2003 9:10:22 PM PST by Sacajaweau (Hillary: Constitutional Scholar! NOT)
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