From: "Adam Flinton" 

Oliver "I lie to Congress for a living but trust me I'm telling the
truth" North ?

The job of the inspectors is to prove a lie. They don't have a web of
informers & technical assets for monitoring communications.

Bush & Blair need to say "Go to 22 Hydrogen avenue 2nd floor...."

Adam

"Geo."  wrote in message news:3e0724b6{at}w3.nls.net...
> I happened upon the below today and found the perspective, umm.. unique?
It
> shows a pov that may explain why the US is a little reluctant to turn over
> intelligence.
>
> Geo.
>
> -----------
>
> After a month of playing cat-and-mouse with Baghdad's Mad Dog, the weapons
> inspectors of the United Nations Monitoring Inspection and Verification
> Commission (UNMOVIC) are basking in the glow of global acclaim for their
> sterling work. According to the UN, the inspectors have "earned the
> cooperation" of the Iraqi regime and even gone "unannounced
and unopposed"
> into one of Saddam's palaces. Kofi Annan thinks they're doing a great job.
> So far they haven't found a thing. It's unlikely that they ever will.
>
> As with most UN undertakings, the UNMOVIC mission began with a na‹ve
hope -
> that Saddam Hussein would voluntarily fess up to possessing nuclear,
> biological, and chemical weapons. Security Council Resolution 1441, passed
> unanimously with great fanfare last month, requires that Iraq provide
> weapons inspectors with "immediate, unimpeded, unconditional, and
> unrestricted access" to suspected weapons sites. The much-hyped Iraqi
> "cooperation" has thus far postponed a reckoning with
reality and deterred
> joint U.S.-British action to remove the threat of Saddam accumulating more
> weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.
>
> Meanwhile, Saddam's UN ambassador defiantly insists that his country has
> "nothing hidden." Everyone knows that's a lie. But you won't hear that
from
> any of the inspectors or their intrepid leader-in absentia, Hans Blix.
> The ever-so-courteous, always smiling Mr. Blix is intent on inspecting
Iraq
> from his luxurious UN offices in New York City. It is, after-all, holiday
> season in the Big Apple. And in Iraq, it's Ramadan - when it's tough to
get
> a glass of wine and good cheese - even at the Al Rashid Hotel - the best
in
> Baghdad.
>
> But it's not just his penchant for the good life that has raised concerns
> about Mr. Blix. It's his competence. He is after all the same Swedish
> diplomat who served as Director General of the International Atomic Energy
> Agency during the very years that Iraq's blooming nuclear weapons program
> went undetected. But just to show that he doesn't play favorites and prove
> that he's an "equal opportunity arms inspector," Mr. Blix
also ignored the
> North Korean atomic bomb building program as well. Some have compared him
to
> Inspector Cleusou in the old Pink Panther movies. But that's unfair - to
> French cops.
>
> In his zeal to avoid offending the brutal regime in Baghdad - Mr. Blix
> refers to them as his "hosts" - he has minimized the involvement of
> experienced American and British inspectors with UNMOVIC because the
Iraqis
> complained that they are "too aggressive in their disarmament
searches."
To
> replace the U.S. and U.K. scientists who were experts on nuclear,
biological
> and chemical weapons, Mr. Blix launched an international affirmative
action
> hiring program that has recruited Chinese, Russian, and Chilean
inspectors -
> but few with specialized expertise in the arcane sciences of "bugs, gas
and
> nukes." Apparently Mr. Blix is looking for inspectors with know-how in
other
> disciplines. One of the few Americans he did find attractive enough to put
> on his team has a two-year, community college degree in "Security
>  Management" and a resume that includes sadomasochistic sex groups,
teaching
> courses on "sex slaves" and proficiency in
"bondage" techniques. Given
what
> we now know of Saddam's torture chambers, one wonders at the reaction of
the
> Iraqi despot when he learned of this particular inspector's extra
curricular
> activities.
>
> While the so-called inspectors and S&M aficionados wearing UNMOVIC ID
badges
> bumble about the Iraqi countryside like the Keystone Kops, President Bush
is
> talking tough. "The inspectors are not in Iraq to play hide-and-seek with
> Mr. Saddam Hussein," he declared last week. But that's not the point.
There
> is considerable question as to whether this gang that couldn't shoot
> straight would even know what they were seeing if Saddam left it all on
> display.
>
> Dr. Raymond Zilinskas, who directs the Chemical and Biological Weapons
> Nonproliferation Program at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies told
my
> nationwide radio audience last week that, "If UNMOVIC lacks specialized
> scientific expertise in biochemistry, nuclear physics, microbiology, and
> 'weaponization' of biological and chemical agents, they might never know
> what the Iraqis have or don't have." When I asked if his advice had been
> sought for UNMOVIC he replied, "No." Perhaps it's
understandable why Hans
> Blix doesn't want to hear from "Dr. Z." He's not only an expert on
> bio-weapons. He also knows his way around Iraq. In 1994, as part of the UN
> Special Commission (UNSCOM), he inspected 61 Iraqi biological research and
> production facilities and built a database on Iraq's "dual
use" biological
> equipment. In short, he knows what he's talking about. No wonder Dr.
> Zilinskas is in Monterey, California instead of Baghdad.
>
> Thankfully, Hans Blix and Kofi Annan aren't the only ones with a say over
> what's to happen in Iraq. On 2 December the British government released a
> chilling, well-sourced report on crimes and human rights abuses in Iraq.
Its
> conclusions are horrific: "Torture is systematic."
"Executions are carried
> out without due process of law." "Relatives are often prevented from
burying
> the victims.and have even been charged for the bullets used." An appendix
> chronicles some of the methods of torture including rape, eye gouging,
> piercing hands with an electric drill, acid baths, and electric shock.
>
> Ahmad Chalabi, the head of the Iraqi National Congress, is using this
report
> to stimulate unity among other opposition leaders in the region. Scores of
> defectors from Saddam's military arrive daily in camps along Iraq's
borders,
> professing a willingness to fight for liberty in their homeland.
Contractors
> have been seen at the abandoned Iraqi embassy in Washington, preparing it
> for "new management." And the American and British military
build up in
the
> Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean grows by the day. When the Iraqi opposition
> takes up arms against Saddam Hussein and calls for our help - as surely
they
> will - are we going to sit idly by and wait for a pronouncement from Hans
> Blix? Let us hope not.
>
> by Oliver North
> December 6, 2002
>
>

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