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...Blix took the UNMOVIC position after having served for 17 years as the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (the UN atomic watchdog). He was summoned out of retirement by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan after Security Council members failed to agree on the nomination of fellow Swede Rolf Ekeus to head UNMOVIC. Blix's appointment was unanimously approved by the Security Council, and he led the inspectors back into Iraq last November following the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1441. Last Tuesday, Annan ordered the evacuation of all UN personnel from Iraq, a day before...
Blix--one of those rumpled lawyers who always see both sides of a question--could hardly be more different from George W. Bush, a man of clenched jaw and moral clarity. Yet the Swede's words now have the sort of power that some Bush Administration officials would otherwise ascribe only to Holy Writ. If Blix says that his inspectors are making progress on disarming Iraq, then the U.S. probably will not soon win broad international backing for a war. If, on the other hand, Blix concludes that Iraq has had no intention of cooperating with the inspectors, then...
Those impassive eyes do not judge. They merely observe. Blix may look like your grandfather's accountant, but the affable Swede, who heads the U.N. weapons-inspection team in Iraq, is now the eyes of the world, which is counting on him to find out what Saddam has up his sleeve. Blix knows, however, that what you see isn't always what...
...Still, it's not only Blix's more diplomatic style that might alarm the White House - there's also the fact that the Swede served as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from 1981-1997, during which time both Iraq and North Korea managed to pursue undetected nuclear weapons programs. Again, though, Blix counters that the IAEA is only as good as the intelligence provided by its member states, and if the U.S. and others weren't able to detect signs of such programs, neither could the IAEA. And, he says, the experience taught him that "not seeing...
...Bush administration's trigger-mechanism for war with Iraq has a name: Hans. Hans Blix. The 74-year-old Swede is the head of UNMOVIC, the UN arms inspection program that will be sent back into Iraq once the Security Council agrees on the text of a new disarmament resolution, and his judgment could well mean the difference between war and peace. According to the deal currently being brokered at the Security Council, Blix will report on whether Iraq is complying - and if the answer is no, Washington will almost certainly go to war. He'll likely...