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Amid all the talk of giving inspections more time, chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix told German weekly Die Zeit that it is not completely clear whether Iraq wants to comply with inspections.
"On the other hand, this country had eight years of inspections, four years without inspections and now 12 weeks with them. Is it now the right time to shut the door?" he said in an interview scheduled for publication Thursday.
"The whole thing is a process, which only moves along centimeter by centimeter," Blix said. "Even if Iraq would cooperate immediately, actively and unconditionally with us, we would need several months."
Blix knows that Iraq is not complying. In each press release or interview he always includes just enough info for the anti-war crowd to hang onto hope that inspection will work...deep down inside, he knows they are not working.
"On the other hand, this country had eight years of inspections, four years without inspections and now 12 weeks with them. Is it now the right time to shut the door?" he said in an interview scheduled for publication Thursday.
"The whole thing is a process, which only moves along centimeter by centimeter," Blix said. "Even if Iraq would cooperate immediately, actively and unconditionally with us, we would need several months."
Blix knows that Iraq is not complying. In each press release or interview he always includes just enough info for the anti-war crowd to hang onto hope that inspection will work...deep down inside, he knows they are not working.