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Thread #68096   Message #1149861
Posted By: GUEST,Teribus
30-Mar-04 - 07:45 AM
Thread Name: 60 Minutes tonight (21-Mar-04)
Subject: RE: 60 Minutes tonight (21-Mar-04)
As MGOH says Blix will be 76 this year, born in Uppsala in Sweden in 1928. It was during Dr. Blix's tenure as Director General of the IAEA that Saddam Hussein successfully hood-winked Dr.Blix's organisation and kicked-off his quest to acquire nuclear weapons, severly curtailed courtesy of the Israeli Air Force.

Now you asked what questions Dr. Blix should be asked:

1. In the meetings that took place between UNMOVIC and the Iraqi's what emphasis was put on the importance of the Iraqi Declaration?

2. Did Dr. Blix request a preview of the document to advise on the acceptibility of the content?

3. Once submitted, and having declared that there were short-comings in that document, why did inspections proceed.

4. Having been given a mandate that specifically stated that full and pro-active co-operationwas required on the part of the Iraqi authorities. Why did you settle for less? Why wasn't the required degree of co-operation not demanded immediately by either yourself, or the Secretary General of the United Nations, or the Chairman of the UN Security Council?

5. Why did you not over-ride Iraqi failure to sanction U2 flights over Iraq?

6. Why did you fail to identify, locate and interview the scientists, engineers, civil servants and military personnel known to have been associated with Iraq's WMD and associated programmes?

Oh Kevin, He (Dr. Blix) might have wanted to put his feet up, but his old company (the UN) still needed the work.