“One of the chiefs of the [Iraqi] chemical weapons program, Brigadier General Alaa Saeed, when asked after the war why Saddam did not help the UN resolve hundreds of unanswered questions about banned weapons, is reported to have answered, according to the Los Angeles Times [on June 4, 2003], ‘I don’t know. Maybe he is too proud.’ “
– Hans Blix, Disarming Iraq, Page 265