Blix: Iraq may have told truth

[Khephra]

Washington - Iraq may have been candid with the international community when it told the United Nations Security Council in December that it did not have chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, a former chief UN weapons inspector said late on Monday.

The declaration, submitted on December 7 by the government of then-Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, was quickly dismissed as false and incomplete by the United States and Britain, which accused Baghdad of failing to disarm as required by Security Council Resolution 1441.

These charges were later used by Washington and London to justify the invasion of the country in late March.

But more than four months after US President George W Bush declared victory in Iraq, former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said facts presented by Iraq in the 12 000-page document may have been accurate.

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http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1413562,00.html

[Turley]

1. Blix

Let's keep in mind that Hans Blix also dismissed the report as false and incomplete, at least at the time.

[theHandpuppet]

2. Yep...

Looks as if Blix is now trying to wash the blood from his own hands.