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Despite statements to the contrary, senior Clinton White House officials knew of serious cheating by the North Korean government shortly after it signed the Agreed (Nuclear) Framework in 1994. Clinton Secretary of Defense William Perry intentionally suppressed an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report submitted to its Board of Governors in late fall 1994 that raised serous questions about whether North Korea ever intended to abide by the Agreed Framework signed with the Clinton administration. In October 1994, the IAEA, under the U.S.-Korean agreement, sent a team to the North Korean nuclear center at Yongbyon to do a field survey....

Several readers responded to our Wednesday item on the Saddam torture video by asking where to find it. The American Enterprise Institute has links on this page. AEI warns that the video is "very graphic" and "not suitable for children." We've seen part of it, and we're not sure it's suitable for anyone, so proceed at your own risk.

The discovery of an Iraqi artillery shell armed with nerve gas has the liberal community and mass media in a panic. The 155mm nerve gas shell was rigged to kill U.S. troops but it failed. U.S. Brig. General Mark Kimmitt confirmed the discovery during a news conference in Baghdad. Yet, the discovery of nerve gas was followed by a second revelation. A second shell, equipped with mustard gas was found two weeks ago. The mustard gas shell identified by the special WMD inspection team in Iraq appears to be one of 550 declared by Saddam to U.N. inspectors during the...

FORMER chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said that a shell containing sarin nerve gas used in an attack in Iraq was most likely a stray weapon possibly from the first Gulf War. Blix said today that the discovery of the nerve agent was not a sign that Saddam Hussein's regime possessed weapons of mass destruction before the war last year. The US-led coalition used that claim to justify the invasion even though UN inspectors failed to make any significant finds before the war. The former Swedish foreign minister said the 155-mm shell used to attack a US military...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United Nations' top two weapons experts said Sunday that the invasion of Iraq a year ago was not justified by the evidence in hand at the time.</p> <p>"I think it's clear that in March, when the invasion took place, the evidence that had been brought forward was rapidly falling apart," Hans Blix, who oversaw the agency's investigation into whether Iraq had chemical and biological weapons, said on CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer."</p>

Chief UN weapons inspector believes he was bugged The United Nations spying row widened yesterday when its former weapons inspector, Hans Blix, told the Guardian he suspected both his UN office and his home in New York were bugged in the run-up to the Iraq war. In an exclusive interview, Mr Blix said he expected to be bugged by the Iraqis, but to be spied upon by the US was a different matter. He described such behaviour as "disgusting", adding: "It feels like an intrusion into your integrity in a situation when you are actually on the same side." He...

The British or US intelligence services monitored former United Nations chief weapons inspector Hans Blix's mobile phone whenever he was in Iraq, sources have told the ABC. The claim comes after former British cabinet minister Clare Short said the British intelligence service had spied on United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan as the United States and Britain tried to win UN support for invading Iraq. Andrew Fowler from the ABC's Investigative Unit says sources have told him that Australia's Office of National Assessments has read transcripts of Dr Blix's phone conversations in Iraq. "That's what I'm told, specifically each time...

SERIAL LIAR BUSH FINALLY GETS CAUGHT By Bill Gallagher "Many of these politicians have put exclamation marks where we put question marks." -- Former Chief UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix. DETROIT -- That astute remark came in an interview in which Dr. Blix also offered his belief that President Bush's re-election campaign would contort and distort his reports on Saddam Hussein's arsenal of weapons to justify the brutal and unnecessary war in Iraq. Asked if the Bush crowd would attempt to alter the meaning of his findings, Dr. Blix said flat-out, "I'm sure they will." People in the Bush administration...

Deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein almost certainly destroyed his weapons of mass destruction after the first Gulf War in 1991, according to the United Nations' former chief weapons inspector Dr Hans Blix. Dr Blix told the BBC: "I think that the vast majority of people are feeling that there is very little likelihood that they (the Iraqis) had anything, and the biggest chance is that they destroyed them in 1991." Asked about reports that David Kay, the head of the coalition's weapons search group, is about to step down, Dr Blix said: "Certainly, it is an indication that the US...

U.N. rapped for 'failing' Iraqi people UNITED NATIONS — Iraq's interim foreign minister criticized the United Nations yesterday for standing on the sidelines in his nation's time of need, saying the world body failed the Iraqi people in the past and must not fail them again. "One year ago, this Security Council was divided between those who wanted to appease Saddam Hussein and those who wanted to hold him accountable," Hoshyar Zebari told the Security Council and Secretary-General Kofi Annan. "The U.N. as an organization failed to help rescue the Iraqi people from a murderous tyranny that lasted over 35...

If reports by the National Intelligence Council and the Undersecretary of Defense can just be dismissed and replaced with dumbed down sound bites like “no WMDs have been found,” why bother having Intelligence? Ongoing criticism of the Bush administration’s actions in Iraq generally consists of the same two accusations; one, that the administration exaggerated the possibility that Iraq had WMDs, and two, that the continued presence of U.S. troops in Iraq is turning into another Vietnam. The left-leaning American press knows that if it continues to repeat these two themes, the American public will eventually start to believe them. Studies...

NEW YORK - Hans Blix, the United Nations inspector who clashed often with the Bush administration over allegations of Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction, has a book deal. Pantheon hopes to publish Blix's book, currently untitled, in the spring of 2004. "The core of the book will be the four months leading up to the invasion of Iraq," Pantheon editor Dan Frank said Thursday. "It will give readers a clear sense of what the U.N. does and the ins and outs of diplomacy." Frank said Blix has written about a half to two-thirds of what should be a...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) - A British intelligence dossier "did not correspond to reality" by suggesting Saddam Hussein's regime could deploy weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes, the chief U.N. weapons inspector said in an interview published Sunday. Dimitris Perricos said in Sunday's Eleftherotypia newspaper that inspections found no evidence supporting American and British accusations that Saddam possessed an arsenal capable of widespread death and damage. "There is no doubt that the phrase of 'within 45 minutes' that was included in the British report did not correspond to reality," Perricos was quoted as saying. The wording of the report is...

FORMER United Nations weapons inspector Hans Blix yesterday blasted the US-led war on Iraq as a violation of international law.He said: "I do not see the action as compatible with the UN charter."Speaking on Swedish radio, Blix questioned whether Saddam Hussein had posed an immediate threat to his neighbours and the US. ATTACK: Hans Blix has questioned the reasons for the bloodshed in IraqHe said: "I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they...

Blix Would Lead International WMD Panel July 03,2003 By TOMMY GRANDELL, Associated Press Writer STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Former Chief U.N. inspector Hans Blix will head a planned international commission on weapons of mass destruction, Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh said Thursday. The commission, which hasn't been established yet, would likely be based in the Swedish capital, Stockholm. Blix, who retired June 30 from the United Nations (news - web sites), was asked to lead the group, Lindh said. "It is very gratifying that Blix has accepted the presidency. He has unique experiences and knowledge," she said. "We must do everything...

In defense of Hans Blix Posted: June 28, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Hope you watched Hans Blix on TV this week, either being interviewed by Charlie Rose or on C-SPAN. You need to hear what Blix says with your own ears. The media elite frequently – perhaps deliberately – incorrectly reports what he says. Some had it that Blix – retiring this month as chairman of the U.N. Monitoring and Verification Commission on Iraq – had blasted the Bush-Cheney administration in those interviews. Wrong! Blix didn't blast Bush-Cheney, even though he justifiably could have. "High level officials"...

<p>UN Arms Inspector Blix Criticizes U.S. Over Iraq By Grant McCool NEW YORK (Reuters) - The longer the United States and Britain occupy Iraq without finding weapons of mass destruction, the more conceivable it is that Baghdad destroyed them after the first Gulf War in 1991, chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said on Monday. Blix, to retire next week after heading inspections before the U.S.-led war on Iraq began in March, also spoke critically at a think tank meeting of one of Washington's key arguments for overthrowing Iraq President Saddam Hussein. "It is sort of fascinating that you can have 100 percent certainty about weapons of mass destruction and zero certainty of about where they are," Blix said at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.</p>

<p>After Sept. 11, the risk of a further spread of weapons of mass destruction is seen in a new light. There is a fear that terrorist groups or reckless states might launch attacks with such weapons. The United States and its allies have now shown their readiness to deal with the risk through armed action in the case of Iraq. A horribly brutal regime has been eliminated and can no longer reactivate a weapons program -- if there still was one. How are other suspicious cases to be tackled?</p>

Bo Derek and her date -- John Corbett, of "Northern Exposure" and "Sex and the City" fame -- had gotten up from their table at last night's White House correspondents dinner at the Hilton Washington when they set eyes on one suddenly popular young man in a crowd studded with movie stars, comedians and political leaders (and even television's "Bachelorette," Trista Rehn). The young man in question was Lance Vandaniker. He's 23 years old, hails from Sevierville, Tenn., and he'd never been in a room filled with famous people before. He also happened to have his left arm encased in...

No weapons detected at 80 sites on top 100 list Thursday, April 24, 2003 BY PAULINE JELINEK ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- American forces are changing their search strategy after coming up empty at most of the top suspected weapons sites in Iraq, officials said yesterday. And the White House appeared to be trying to scale back expectations that weapons of mass destruction will be found. Troops on the ground have searched more than 80 sites that prewar U.S. intelligence judged the most likely hiding places for chemical and biological weapons as well as evidence of an Iraqi nuclear program, Defense...