The destruction of missiles requested has not yet begun. Iraq could have made full use of the declaration which was submitted on 7 December. It is hard to understand why a number of the measures which are now being taken, could not have been initiated earlier. If they had been taken earlier, they might have borne fruit by now. |
The document had been sitting with the CIA and their U.K. counterparts for a long while, and they had not discovered it, ... And I think it took the IAEA a day to discover that it was a forgery. |
The Iraqis have been putting themselves in a position to rejuvenate their weapons-of-mass-destruction programs. |
The patience that they require for themselves now was not anything that they wanted to give to us, |
The situation is tense at the moment, but there is a new opportunity and we are here to provide inspection which is credible. |
The things that have happened in the last few days are a bit troubling. |
The whole thing is a process, which only moves along centimeter by centimeter, ... Even if Iraq would cooperate immediately, actively and unconditionally with us, we would need several months. |
The whole thing is a process, which only moves along centimeter by centimeter. Even if Iraq would cooperate immediately, actively and unconditionally with us, we would need several months. |
There are still a number of questions, including the question of possible further external assistance to the nuclear program. You don't know what you don't know. |
There are strong indications that Iraq produced more anthrax than it declared and that at least some of this was retained over the declared destruction date. |
There are very many of these missiles and a lot of items that pertain to them, which we had enumerated in our letter. It is a very significant piece of real disarmament. |
There were a lot of open questions at the end of 1998, which were registered by UNSCOM [the U.N. Special Commission] and also by the air-marine report. ... And these have not been answered by evidence in the new declaration. And this we are pointing out. We would need -- the absence of that evidence means, of course, that one cannot have confidence that there do not remain weapons of mass destruction. |
they know very well what they should provide. We have not seen it yet. |
They said they had been surprised themselves ... They were in boxes, never opened -- there were bird droppings on them. But of course they should have been declared and destroyed. |
They sort of showered us with letters trying to explain this or that. |