Asking:
Anybody remembers Hans Blix, he used to say all the time there are no weapons there are no weapons and everybody shitted on him, I think he deserves an apology because he was right and his reputation was damaged.
Hmmm- not quite accurate per the article below and he had no reputation to damage, even his former employer stated that he never could understand how Hans got the job in Iraq as he was so dumb.,
By: Stewart Stogel,
NewsMax.com
Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2004
Documents Show That U.N. Inspector Believed Saddam Was Hiding Secret Weapons
UNITED NATIONS – U.N. chief Iraq arms inspector Dr. Hans Blix believed that Baghdad may have been hiding as much as 10,000 liters of deadly anthrax before the U.S.- and British-led coalition invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
According to experts, if properly weaponized, that amount of anthrax could neutralize a city the size of New York.
The admission by Blix was found in a private report sent to the UNMOVIC (U.N. Monitoring, Observation and Verification Commission) College of Commissioners just weeks before the invasion. The college is the U.N. body’s executive board.
In his report Blix said that he had a “strong suspicion” that Iraq “is hiding” as much as 10,000 liters of the exotic poison.
The private proclamation went further than Blix’s public statements where he insisted that weapons Baghdad could not account for was not proof they existed and were hidden.
A senior official at the French foreign ministry in Paris told NewsMax that he was aware of the assertion by Blix and believed it was made “under pressure from Washington.”
On Thursday, CIA Director George Tenet told an audience at Georgetown University that his agency’s assessment on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was shared by numerous intelligence agencies other than the CIA.
Blix’s report would seem to corroborate the Tenet claim.
Former U.N. chief arms inspector Rolf Ekeus had explained that anthrax is one form of WMD that is easily hidden and stored.
“In a spore form you can hide it in a cool cellar and perhaps keep it for as long as 15 years,” Ekeus proclaimed.
Ekeus went on to explain that in such a form, anthrax is fairly safe and would be difficult for arms inspectors to track down.
“You can store it in a person’s home. How can we search every home in Iraq?” Ekeus once asked.
In his speech, Tenet took exception with the claim made by the United States’ recently departed Iraq arms hunter David Kay that the Iraq Survey Group, which has not found WMD, had completed “85 percent” of its work.
Tenet told the Georgetown audience that the Iraq group “has nowhere even close to completing 85 percent of its work.”
Kay’s successor, former deputy chief U.N. Iraq arms inspector Charles Duelfer, is expected to take up his new duties in Baghdad this week.
Based on statements by Blix and his predecessor Rolf Ekeus, Tenet’s claims may be accurate, in a strict technical sense.
Questioned by NewsMax, Blix explained from his home in Stockholm, Sweden:
“We [the U.N.] had strong suspicions that some anthrax was still hidden, but we did not find the evidence to assert its existence…”
