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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR
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To: PartyTime who started this subject3/9/2003 11:13:24 PM
From: CBurnett  Read Replies (1) of 25898
 
March 10, 2003

Blix 'hid smoking gun' from Britain and US
From James Bone in New York

BRITAIN and the United States will today press the chief UN weapons inspector to admit that he has found a
“smoking gun” in Iraq. Such an admission could persuade swing voters on the Security Council to back the March
17 ultimatum.
The British and US ambassadors plan to demand that Hans Blix reveals more details of a huge undeclared Iraqi
unmanned aircraft, the discovery of which he failed to mention in his oral report to Security Council foreign
ministers on Friday. Its existence was only disclosed in a declassified 173-page document circulated by the
inspectors at the end of the meeting — an apparent attempt by Dr Blix to hide the revelation to avoid triggering a
war.

The discovery of the drone, which has a wingspan of 7.45 metres, will make it much easier for waverers on the
Security Council to accept US and British arguments that Iraq has failed to meet UN demands that it disarm.

“It’s incredible,” a senior diplomat from a swing voter on the council said. “This report is going to have a clearly
defined impact on the people who are wavering. It’s a biggie.”

An explicit report by Dr Blix of the discovery of an Iraqi violation would help the six swing voters — Angola,
Cameroon, Chile, Guinea, Mexico and Pakistan — to explain a change of position to their publics.

Unlike the outlawed Al-Samoud 2 missile, which was declared as a purportedly legal weapon, the drone was not
declared. It would be the first undeclared weapons programme found by the UN and is considered by British and
US officials to be a “smoking gun”.
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