Free Republic

<p>BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — "Business-like" talks with Iraqi officials have set the stage for a decisive new round of weapons inspections starting next week, including possible unannounced drop-ins on President Saddam Hussein's palaces, the chief U.N. inspectors said Wednesday.</p> <p>"The world and the Security Council want assurances that Iraq has no more weapons of mass destruction," the chief of the U.N. inspection team, Hans Blix, said on a stopover in Cyprus after wrapping up two days of talks in Baghdad.</p>

Just heard on Rush that according to the British Muslim group that arranged the supposed agreement for "unconditional inspections" there really is a condition. They only agreed to inspections at military installations. No inspections at civilian insallations, including schools, hostpitals, and presumably Saddams 39 Presidential Palaces. Nobody else in the media seems to have picked up on this.

Despite eight months of "negotiations" and four rounds of meetings, the U.N. Monitoring, Observation, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) says little progress has been made in resuming arms inspections in Iraq. In a quarterly report to the Security Council, an advance copy of which was obtained by NewsMax, UNMOVIC Executive Chairman Hans Blix states that Iraq repeatedly continued to circumvent its Gulf War cease-fire obligations. Blix points out that Baghdad had tried to pressure the arms inspectors into a "joint assessment" of unresolved disarmament issues before any U..N personnel could enter the country. That demand was rejected by him as...

In an unusual move, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz earlier this year asked the CIA to investigate the performance of Swedish diplomat Hans Blix, chairman of the new United Nations team that was formed to carry out inspections of Iraq's weapons programs...