“On the 7th of March 2003 the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohamed ElBaradei, delivered a speech to the United Nations Security Council. He explained that: ‘Based on through analysis, the IAEA has concluded with the concurrence of outside experts that these documents which formed the basis for the report of […]
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3/7/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “805. … -On 7 March, Dr ElBaradei reported that there was no indication that Iraq had resumed nuclear activities and that it should be able to provide the [UN] Security Council with an assessment of Iraq’s activities in the near future.” – Commissioned by […]
3/7/2003
“On March 7, 2003, Mohamed El Baradei, the director general of the UN’s nuclear inspection and verification arm, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), made a startling statement in remarks to the Security Council: the uranium intelligence was not credible and there was ‘no evidence or plausible indication’ that Iraq had revived a nuclear weapons […]
3/7/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “805. … -Dr Blix reported to the [UK] Security Council on 7 March that there had been an acceleration of initiatives from Iraq and, while they did not constitute immediate co-operation, they were welcome. UNMOVIC [United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission] would be […]
3/7/2003
In a memo written on March 7, 2003, Defense Department official Joseph Collings said Central Command’s Deputy Commander, Lieutenant General John Abidzaid, “appeared to be more concerned than Washington about how the U.S.-led effort [in Iraq] would unfold. ‘We are an antibody in their society,’ Abizaid said in the closed-door meeting [of a U.S. postwar […]
3/7/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “207. Dr ElBaradei reported that there were no indications that Iraq had resumed nuclear activities since the inspectors left in December 1998 and the recently increased level of Iraqi co-operation should allow the IAEA to provide Security Council with an assessment of Iraq’s nuclear […]
3/7/2003
In a presentation to the United Nations Security Council on March 7, 2003, former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said: “we all know, in 1991 the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] was just days away from determining that Iraq did not have a nuclear program. We soon found out otherwise… The point is that […]
3/7/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “810. … -Lord Goldsmith’s formal advice of 7 March set out alternative interpretations of the legal effect of resolution 1441. While Lord Goldsmith remained “of the opinion that the safest legal course would be to secure a second resolution”, he concluded (paragraph 28) that […]
3/7/2003
“On 7 March [2003], [chief UN weapons inspector] Dr [Hans] Blix reported to the [UN] Security Council ‘a substantial measure of disarmament by Iraq with the destruction of large numbers of al-Samoud ballistic missiles.’ It was of this that Dr Blix said to the Security Council: ‘We are not watching the breaking of toothpicks. Lethal […]
3/7/2003
“On Friday 7 March [2003] at the [UN] Security Council, [chief UN weapons inspector] Dr [Hans] Blix reported some considerable progress in Iraqi co-operation including the destruction of the ballistic missiles.” – Clare Short, An Honourable Deception?, Page 251 […]