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| | Online NewsHour: Chief Inspector -- February 13, 2003 |
 | | SPENCER MICHELS: Blix began his career as a lawyer, and served in Sweden's foreign service for two decades, including the post of foreign minister in 1978. | | | MARGARET WARNER: For more on Hans Blix, and his track record, we turn to: Jan Eliasson, Sweden's ambassador to the United States. | | | Blix was a compromise candidate before the U.N. Security Council. |
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june03/blix_2-13.html
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| | U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix faults Bush Administration for lack of "critical thinking" in Iraq |
| | But he is a lawyer and a diplomat, and he believes that it was the responsibility of the Security Council to uphold its own resolutions regarding Iraq, not the responsibility of one or two council members acting alone. | | | "There were about 700 inspections, and in no case did we find weapons of mass destruction," said Hans Blix, the Swedish diplomat called out of retirement to serve as the United Nations' chief weapons inspector from 2000 to 2003; from 1981 to 1997 he headed the International Atomic Energy Agency. | | | Or that there is no anthrax in all of Iraq?" The United States and the United Kingdom wanted black-and-white answers, and instead they got "lots of shades of gray in the reports." |
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http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/03/18_blix.shtml
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| | Blix: Press Briefing on UNMOVIC 3-1-00 |
| | Blix said the College would meet at least four times a year. | | | One of his first actions upon assuming the Chairmanship of UNMOVIC that morning was to visit the Secretary-General. | | | Although he had not visited any governments before assuming his functions, many governments had sent advisers to him before leaving Sweden, he said. |
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http://www.iraqwatch.org/un/unmovic/Blix-brfg.htm
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| | BBC NEWS World Middle East Profile: Hans Blix |
| | Mr Blix has written several books concerning international and constitutional law. | | | The Security Council had rejected Rolf Ekeus, the candidate put forward by the United States and Britain. | | | He spent 20 years on Sweden's delegation to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva before heading the IAEA. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2268819.stm
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| | Aljazeera.Net - Hans Blix: Profile |
| | His diplomacy, honed from his days as a Swedish foreign minister, was put to severe test. | | | reveals the extraordinary pressure British and American governments put on Blix to produce evidence of banned weapons. | | | His calm diplomatic qualities allowed for positive results with Baghdad officials. |
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E6D5D6EB-B320-475C-8F87-A42C8FC7A061.htm
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| | My Way - News |
| | Blix, a lawyer and former Swedish foreign minister who at 75 now serves as chairman of Sweden's Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, retired from the United Nations last June. | | | The Swedish diplomat has criticized the United States and Britain for going to war without U.N. approval rather than allowing his team to continue its hunt for banned weapons. | | | Blix was scorned by the United States and Britain for failing to conclude Iraq was hiding weapons of mass destruction ahead of their invasion. |
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http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/257892top04-06-2004::10:26reuters.html
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| | Weapons inspector Hans Blix to speak Tuesday - The Brown and White |
| | Born in 1928 in Uppsala, Sweden, Blix studied at the University of Uppsala and Columbia University in New York. | | | He also has a law degree from Cambridge University in England. | | | Blix served as Director General of the IAEA until 1997. |
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http://www.bw.lehigh.edu/story.asp?ID=17337
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books By genre Review: Disarming Iraq by Hans Blix |
| | Blix argues that the certainties of the Bush and Blair circles influenced the spies rather as they influenced the media. | | | Blix says the British took no part in the bash-Blix-and-Baradei campaign of March 2003 at the UN, and credits Blair with sincerity and with attempting to find a peaceful solution right to the wire. | | | As the president's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, told Blix on February 28 2003, it was hard to keep an army sitting. |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,6121,1173509,00.html
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Blix: I was smeared by the Pentagon |
| | In an extraordinary departure from the diplomatic language with which he has come to be associated, Mr Blix assailed his critics in both Washington and Iraq. | | | Speaking exclusively to the Guardian from his 31st floor office at the UN in New York, Mr Blix said: "I have my detractors in Washington. | | | Mr Blix, a former foreign minister, prefers to remain sanguine. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,974998,00.html
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| | Happy Fun Pundit: Hans Across America |
| | Iraqis will also be permitted to cover the ears of inspectors and shout "LA LA LA LA LA! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" if they deem the conversation to be infringing in Iraqi dignity, sovereignity, privacy, sensitivity, or too boring. | | | Saddam has been presented with that most dreaded of diplomatic notes, the "No foolies! | | | Posted by: Steve Gigl on November 18, 2002 11:00 AM |
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http://www.happyfunpundit.com/hfp/archives/000429.html
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| | NPR : Blix: Lack of 'Critical Judgment' Led to Iraq War |
| | Hans Blix, right, and Secretary of State Colin Powell appear at a press briefing at the State Department, Oct. 4, 2002. | | | "If you sentence someone to death or you sentence someone to war, you'd better have some evidence," Blix tells NPR's Bob Edwards. | | | Nevertheless, Blix says he did not believe before the war that a U.S.-led attack against Iraq was inevitable. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1767468
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| | From 1963 to 1976, Dr. Blix was Head of Department at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and served as Legal Adviser on International Law. | | | Blix was appointed to his present position by the UN Secretary-General in January 2000 and took up his duties on 1 March 2000. | | | He studied at the University of Uppsala; at Columbia University, where he was also a research graduate; and at Cambridge University, where he received his Ph.D. In 1959, he became Doctor of Laws at the Stockholm University, and in 1960, was appointed Associate Professor in International Law. |
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http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/ExecChair/ExeChBi.htm
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| | Biography of Dr Hans Blix |
| | At Stockholm University he attained a doctorate in law and served as a professor in international law. | | | He has written several books on subjects associated with international and constitutional law. | | | Dr Hans Blix studied at the University of Uppsala, at Columbia University, and at Cambridge University, where he received his PhD. |
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http://www.world-nuclear.org/sym/2001/blixbio.htm
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| | Hans Blix - Incompetent bureaucrat or cowardly diplomat? By Chris Suellentrop |
| | Hans Blix - Incompetent bureaucrat or cowardly diplomat? | | | President Bush won't need a pretext for war if Blix doesn't faithfully execute the mandate given to him by the Security Council. | | | When the United Nations named Hans Blix its chief weapons inspector, it chose a henhouse to guard the fox. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2074629
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| | The Center for Security Policy |
| | Blix and he was soon approved by the Security Council. | | | Blix also seems intent on trying to redefine and prolong his mission in a way which was not decided by the Security Council in November last year. | | | Blix's softness on Iraq is not at all an inevitable consequence of the fact that he is a Swede, as am I. His passport does not create illusions about Saddam Hussein; his character does. |
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http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.jsp?section=papers&code=03-F_01
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| | Hans Blix - Wikiquote |
| | Hans Blix (born June 28, 1928), Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs 1978–79, Director General of the IAEA 1981–97, Executive Chairman of the UNMOVIC 2000–03. | | | referring to the British and American governments' insistence that there are WMD in Iraq after Blix had already concluded and reported there was nothing to be found | | | BBC News, "Blix criticises UK's Iraq dossier", September 18, 2003 [4] |
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hans_Blix
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| | Hans Blix, - Hans Blix, Swedish diplomat, headed the United Nations weapons inspection team that was preparing... | | | Interview: Hans Blix discusses efforts to find WMDs in Iraq and his retirement from his position at the end of June | | | Hans and arms: promoted to global fame through his work as executive chairman of the United Nations' weapons inspection arm, Hans Blix was an oasis of calm during the build-up to war. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0907971.html
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| | Blix: Iraq War was Illegal - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council |
| | But he suggested that the Prime Minister may have been fatally wounded by his loss of credibility, and that voters would deliver their verdict. | | | Mr Blix, speaking to The Independent, said the Attorney General's legal advice to the Government on the eve of war, giving cover for military action by the US and Britain, had no lawful justification. | | | Mr Blix said that while it was possible to argue that Iraq had breached the ceasefire by violating UN resolutions adopted since 1991, the "ownership" of the resolutions rested with the entire 15-member Security Council and not with individual states. |
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http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/justify/2004/0305blixillegalwar.htm
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| | Online NewsHour: Newsmaker: Hans Blix -- March 17, 2004 |
| | JIM LEHRER: The prime minister elect of Spain said on Monday that the United States and Britain organized the war on Iraq with lies. | | | We were, for instance, asked to come through and report on anthrax that the U.S. intelligence had maintained that it existed and criticized in the newspaper, in the Washington Times, for instance, that we did not report on that to the Security Council. | | | HANS BLIX: There are two, there are three monumental. |
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/international/jan-june04/blix_3-17.html
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| | Andrew Apostolou on Hans Blix on National Review Online |
| | Taking up the banner of the antiwar movement, Blix accused President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair of exaggerating the Iraqi threat and that they should have shown "a bit more sincerity." The difficulty for Blix, however, is that his own statements in 2003 justified the war to liberate Iraq. | | | In a recent BBC interview, given in advance of the publication of his book on March 18, the anniversary of the war, Blix disparaged the British and American case against Saddam Hussein. | | | Forgetting his role in justifying the war, Blix says that that it was wrong to conclude that WMD stocks that could not be accounted for must have existed. |
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http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/apostolou200402180915.asp
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| | Hans Blix News - The New York Times |
| | The suspension of most sanctions would fall short of President Bush's call for the Security Council to lift all sanctions. | | | Hans Blix News - The New York Times | | | Hans Blix told associates on Thursday that he expected to leave his post when his current contract expires on June 30. |
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http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/hans_blix?inline=nyt-per
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| | War in Iraq ‘stimulated terrorism,’ ex-U.N. weapons inspector says - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com |
| | Blix, in implicit criticism of the war’s main protagonists — President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair — said the action had also failed to deter any ambitions on the part of Iran or North Korea to develop nuclear weapons. | | | Hans Blix of Sweden, former head of the U.N. Weapons Monitoring Commission in Iraq | | | Blix, who retired from the U.N. last year and now chairs a Swedish-sponsored Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, also cast doubt on the Iraqi government’s comments on Tuesday that U.N. weapons inspectors were welcome to return. |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6237349
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| | CNN.com - Blix attacks Iraq weapons 'spin' - Sep. 18, 2003 |
| | Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair have said the search will take time and that evidence will eventually be uncovered. | | | Hans Blix's comments on Thursday came hours after U.S. President George W. Bush said there was no evidence that Iraq's ousted president was involved in the September 11, 2001 attacks -- disputing an idea held by many Americans. | | | Bush and Blair have come under mounting pressure to prove that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and both leaders have seen their popularity ratings fall in opinion polls. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/09/18/sprj.irq.blix.bush
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Disarming Iraq: The Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction: Books |
| | He was a Swedish diplomat, US educated at Columbia where his son goes now, low key, highly competent, and he was the IAEA chief for twenty years - now just retired. | | | This book is Blix's chance to answer his critics all in his own words, no media translation. | | | Hans Blix recounts the events leading up to the declaration of war on Iraq in March 2003, looking back to Saddam Hussein?s long wrangle with the international community since the first Gulf War and forward to the implications for international security in the aftermath of the war just ended. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0747573549
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| | MTV.com: Hans Blix: Caught Between Iraq And A Hard Place |
| | --> Three years ago, Hans Blix was enjoying retirement after a lifetime in diplomacy and law. | | | Hans Blix: The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. | | | As the world urges Saddam Hussein to disarm, it is Blix and his team that will — through on-site inspections — try to determine if the Iraqi leader is complying. |
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http://www.mtv.com/bands/i/iraq/news_feature_031203/index.jhtml
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| | Hans Blix Urges Concessions to Tehran (Non-Aggression Pact) |
| | Hans Blix Urges Concessions to Tehran (Non-Aggression Pact) | | | Former United Nations weapons inspector Hans Bliz yesterday urged Western nations to offer conscessions to Iran if they want the government there to scrap uranium enrichment, Blix said. | | | Iran has every right to conduct and enrichment programme, Blix said. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1257394/posts
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| | Blix Gets Bushwhacked by Mainstream American Media - BuzzFlash News Analysis |
| | Jan. 31 -- At a joint press conference with President Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair says Iraq is not disarming, and that "if they don't do it through the U.N. route then they will have to be disarmed by force. | | | Meeting in Washington to review possible timetables for diplomacy and war, President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Iraq's Saddam Hussein is not disarming and the world must hold him to account. | | | Except for the New York Times, all the major media's web outlets led with the Blair Bush meeting, and virtually ignored the Blix story. |
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http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/03/02/02_Blix.html
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| | CBS News Blix: U.S. Certainty Was Suspect June 25, 2003 13:52:26 |
| | In more than two months since the fall of Baghdad, weapons-hunting teams have yet to find any evidence of the large stockpiles President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Iraq possessed. | | | Blix said the United States was not alone in believing that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. | | | Blix, who is retiring when his contract ends on June 30, spent an hour fielding questions Monday at the Council on Foreign Relations and defending his conclusion that there is still no evidence that Saddam was hiding weapons of mass destruction. |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/25/iraq/main560384.shtml
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| | Ten Second Response: Hans Blix Worries... About Global Warming - 3/15/03 |
| | Perhaps in his heart of hearts, the country he's really trying to contain is the United States. | | | Given this fact, it is prudent for Americans to take a second look at any policy these governments are urging upon us. | | | BACKGROUND: In an interview with MTV dated March 13, U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said: "On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. |
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http://www.nationalcenter.org/TSR31503.html
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| | Byron York on Hans Blix & Iraq on National Review Online |
| | Is there anything that can be said in his favor? | | | It's also possible that Blix has learned from his mistakes. | | | There's nothing in Blix's record — even if he has improved since his see-no-evil days in the early 1990s — to inspire confidence that he will make the weapons-inspection system work this time. |
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http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york100102.asp
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| | Hans Blix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Hans Blix studied at Uppsala University, Columbia University, and the University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall), from which he holds a doctorate in law. | | | The attack was regarded as being in breach with the United Nations Charter (S/RES/487) and international law and was widely condemned. | | | Blix was also the head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission from January 2000 to June 2003, when he was succeeded by Demetrius Perricos. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Blix
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| | Bill O'Reilly/Hans Blix Transcript |
| | BLIX: There are more countries than the United States in the United Nations, aren't there? | | | O'REILLY: I don't think the United States was -- the United Nations was that upset. | | | BLIX: Well, they were -- the foreign ministers of Europe said that they were not at all excluding using force, but they were not in favor of doing it in March 2003. |
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http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/transcripts/blixoreilly.htm
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| | Iraq invasion violated international law: Blix - War on Iraq - smh.com.au |
| | Blix questioned whether Saddam Hussein posed an immediate threat to his neighbours and to the United States. | | | Iraq invasion violated international law: Blix - War on Iraq - smh.com.au | | | With unusual candour, the former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix today denounced the US-led war on Iraq as a violation of international law, and questioned Washington's motives for the invasion. |
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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/07/1060145783214.html
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| | Roger L. Simon: Hix Nix Blix Pix - Again! |
| | Whether war should or shouldn't have been made was and is outside his jurisdiction. | | | Saddam, and all of the M.E. countries were and are a threat to Western Civilization. | | | The point is: Blix was supposed to be a neutral expert who would investigate and present technical facts, not political opinions. |
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http://www.rogerlsimon.com/mt-archives/2004/11/hix_nix_blix_pi.php
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| | TIME.com: Person of the Week: Hans Blix -- Page 1 |
| | Blix spent Wednesday huddled in the Oval Office with President Bush, Vice President Cheney and other senior administration officials — not exactly commonplace for heads of UN technical committees. | | | And that means the Administration will work hard to persuade him of its way of thinking as the price for giving him the united Security Council backing he says is vital to his ability to do his job. | | | One can only speculate on how Vice President Cheney, for example, might have greeted the news that the 72-year-old Swedish diplomat had subjected his inspectors to a program of "cultural sensitivity" training so as to avoid them unnecessarily offending the Iraqis. |
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http://www.time.com/time/pow/article/0,8599,386336,00.html
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| | t r u t h o u t - Hans Blix: War Planned 'Long in Advance' |
| | The 74-year-old Swede announced in March that he would step down from his post when his contract runs out in June. | | | Blix's reputation for independence and resisting political pressure was sorely tested as the Iraq crisis unfolded and US officials became exasperated with his measured reports on Iraqi cooperation with his inspection teams. | | | But he said he knew at the time "there were people within the Bush administration who were sceptical and who were working on engineering regime change". |
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http://truthout.org/docs_03/041203A.shtml
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| | Hans Blix: War in Iraq has Made Terrorism Worse, 'It has Failed Miserably' |
| | Blix has previously criticized British Prime Minister Tony Blair's government for "hyping" pre-war intelligence about Iraq and denounced US President George W. Bush's war as boosting terrorism and causing more suffering than Saddam's dictatorial regime had. | | | But he said the Iraqi leader had hoped to renew his weapons quest if sanctions were lifted. | | | Blair admitted in a Labour party speech earlier this month that pre-war claims about Saddam's threat were wrong, but he and his closest ally Bush have staunchly defended taking Iraq to war. |
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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1013-05.htm
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| | Random House Authors Hans Blix |
| | Hans Blix was the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1981 to 1997 and was a member of Sweden’s delegation to the United Nations from 1961 to 1981. | | | The war against Iraq divided opinion throughout the world and generated a maelstrom of spin and counterspin. | | | From 2000 to 2003, he was the executive director of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), supervising international inspections for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq until the inspections were suspended in March 2003. |
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http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=58696
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| | OpinionJournal - Featured Article |
| | Hans Blix has never made a secret of his opposition to the war in Iraq, but recently the former chief U.N. weapons inspector and Swedish diplomat has dropped all pretense of, well, diplomacy. | | | His frequent public statements are confirming that the Bush Administration was right to suspect that he was so opposed to the war that he'd have given Saddam Hussein the benefit of every doubt and more in order to prevent it. | | | Blix has now revealed the kind of foreigners he was referring to. |
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005145
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| | Hans Blix speaks. MetaFilter |
| | Since war, Dr Blix has strongly criticised the case made for war by Britain and the United States, based on Saddam Hussein’s supposed possession of illegal WMD. | | | The papers released by the FO show that British officials at the United Nations in New York showed a draft of the dossier to Dr Blix in September 2002, two weeks before the final version was published. | | | First off, Blix had uncovered independent evidence telling him who was present during the destruction of the WMDs, and had a list of people to talk to. |
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http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/36223
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| | Guardian Unlimited Politics Special Reports Blix says war leaders acted like salesmen |
| | In a carefully worded attack, Dr Blix said intelligence communities were too ready to believe the "tales" of defectors, and the British prime minister and US president, while not acting in bad faith, were too preoccupied with spin. | | | The former UN chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, weighed into the controversy over weapons of mass destruction yesterday when he accused Tony Blair and George Bush of behaving like insincere salesmen who "exaggerated" intelligence in an attempt to win support for war. | | | Michael Rose: Blair must be impeached over Iraq |
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http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1143959,00.html
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| | WorldNetDaily: In defense of Hans Blix |
| | But, before leaving the IAEA, Blix had reported that Saddam had never come close to producing enough fissile material to make even one nuke and that his multi-billion-dollar nuke-development program had been utterly destroyed, either in the Gulf War or by the IAEA in the years thereafter. | | | Yes, but Blix knew the Iraqis hadn't given him all the drawings, and noted in his 1997 report: | | | "High level officials" – in both the Bush-Cheney and Clinton-Gore administrations – and their media sycophants have been waging a jihad against Blix for years, mostly for his stewardship from 1981 until 1997 as director general of the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency. |
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33307
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| | US jumped gun on weapons, says Blix - theage.com.au |
| | It is possible," Blix told the Council for Foreign Relations in New York. | | | A former Swedish foreign minister, Blix will stand down at the end of the month after more than three years as chairman of the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC). | | | While weapons of mass destruction may yet be unearthed in Iraq, chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said today that the United States had jumped to conclusions on the basis of "shaky" evidence. |
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/24/1056220578841.html
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| | The Legacy of Hans Blix |
| | Blix and his team will deserve our congratulations. | | | oday is the last day of work at the United Nations for Hans Blix, the septuagenarian Swedish diplomat who led the team of international inspectors that was searching for biological and chemical weapons in Iraq until the eve of the invasion. | | | Blix and his inspectors are looking ever more credible. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/30/opinion/30MON2.html?ex=1372305600&en=4d57b32a536009dc&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND
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| | t r u t h o u t - Blix Dismisses Powell's Evidence |
| | Dr Blix is travelling to Baghdad for further meetings with Iraqi officials before reporting to the security council on February 14 and March 1. | | | Dr Blix said that the problem of bio-weapons laboratories on trucks had been around for a while and that he had received tips from the US that led him to inspect trucks in Iraq. | | | The chief UN weapons inspector yesterday dismissed what has been billed as a central claim of the speech the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, will make today to the UN security council. |
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http://truthout.org/docs_02/020603A.htm
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| | Howard was told of doubts on Iraq weapons, says Blix - National - www.smh.com.au |
| | In the email, Dr Blix said he did not take notes of the conversation with Mr Howard but his recollection was clear. | | | Dr Blix's account of a one-on-one meeting in his New York office on February 11 last year undermines Mr Howard's repeated claim, made again yesterday, that "everybody" believed Iraq had such weapons before the military action. | | | Mr Blix was quite careful and guarded both in his comment and judgement." |
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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/17/1092508481025.html
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| | Reuters AlertNet - Blix casts doubt on Iran nuclear bomb claims |
| | While Washington was unlikely to pull out of Iraq soon -- despite potential political fallout ahead of 2004 presidential elections -- it would dearly love to leave, he said. | | | His remarks came as President Mohammad Khatami voiced optimism that Iran would avoid being reported to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions, despite a tough U.N. report on its nuclear programme. | | | Looking at Iraq, Blix repeated his conviction that no evidence of weapons of mass destruction would ever be found. |
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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L12671164.htm
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| | Blix: US failed to justify war |
| | Blix contested the argument that if the United States backed by Britain had not invaded in March, Iraq could have "proceeded and developed" suspect activities. | | | The former chief inspector said the United Nations charter allowed self-defence against an attack, but that the US-led coalition had failed to prove Iraq posed a "manifest and imminent" threat -- the UN criteria for military action. | | | "I think one should have some caution there, because the Security Council had never intended to abandon long-term monitoring, so the Iraqis would not have been left alone to proceed with whatever they had started," Blix said. |
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http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1425251,00.html
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| | USATODAY.com - Blix: Iraq worse off now than with Saddam |
| | Hans Blix, former U.N. weapons Inspector in Iraq discussed his book 'Disarming Iraq' at at U.N. Headquarters in New York. | | | This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. | | | Blix, whose inspection team didn't make any significant weapons finds during months of searching Iraq before the war, has sharply criticized the United States and Britain for their invasion of Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein's regime. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-04-06-blix-iraq_x.htm
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