Who ever listens to Dr Blix?

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Who ever listens to Dr Blix?

The occupation of Iraq has coincided with a significant sidelining of Hans Blix, a figure who was so central to events prior to the toppling of Saddam. Dr Blix was unable, or perhaps unwilling, to provide the Bush administration with the pretext to invade Iraq. His credibility in the eyes of the Bush administration is now non-existent.

Recently Hans Blix has said he is convinced Iraq destroyed its WMD 10 years ago. He pointed to the shifting of lines by those who claimed that war was fought to disarm Saddam,

"In the beginning they talked about weapons concretely, and later on they talked about weapons programs...maybe they'll find some documents of interest,"

It is interesting to note that one of Blix's final pleas, which fell on deaf ears just before the first bombs fell on Iraq, was to allow the inspectors more time. The Bush administration retorted that Saddam had been given ample time to comply which he had failed to do. It was said that time is something that the region does not have. Blix usually took around three quarters of an hour to report his team's findings to the security council in the run up to the war. Yet 45 minutes was touted as the time Iraq could deploy weapons, something which Blair's dodgy dossier claimed inaccurately. Time was denied to Blix, and so was his request to reinstate weapons inspectors following Iraq's occupation. Instead, the Iraqi survey group (ISG) was born, and it has made in America written all over it. The ISG is being given time, yet miracles are not one its fortes. That is regardless of how much time they are given. It is impossible to magic together evidence of WMD, otherwise David Blain would have been kidnapped from his perspex box above the Thames to oversee the process.

Blix also explained why he believed Saddam's regime had continued the pretence that it possessed WMD. "You can put up a sign on your door, beware of the dog, without having a dog." Yet the signs failed even to keep the dogs out.

The ISG reported this week on its findings or absence of any findings. The head of the ISG, David Kay said that he could not conclude there were or weren't WMD, but they hadn't found any in actuality, this doesn't there weren't any to start off with, but they cannot be found at this present time. It seems that the tactic adopted by the ISG/US-UK cabal is to bore us with inconsequential psychobabble! Yet a leak to The Guardian newspaper (UK) by a "US Intelligence source" revealed prior to the unveiling of the ISG that the report would be concluding "the main judgments of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) in October 2002, that Saddam had hundreds of tonnes of chemical and biological agents ready, are false". If the NIE were re-named Local Intelligence Estimate, its acronym would spell out the true extent of its claims. It claimed, in short, that Iraq possesses WMD, and in addition that it was months away from manufacturing a nuclear weapon if it got hold of weapons-grade fissile material.

Journalist Andrew Neil revealed that a ‘Bush administration' source revealed to him that the ISG report would conclude that they have been unsuccessful in the quest for WMD. A US soldier involved in the work of the ISG told AP, "What we expected was nasty stuff…Exactly the pictures they painted on CNN and all the networks - nerve agents... I had just come out of school. I was inexperienced, if we found the weapons, it would have been good to be part of the group that found the evidence... I don't know what to think anymore."

CIA director George Tenet speaking on August 11 attacked those who he claimed were twisting the facts (something he has had considerable experience in), "We stand behind the judgments of the NIE as well as our analyses on Iraq's programs over the past decade. Those outside the process over the past 10 years and many of those commenting today do not know, or are misrepresenting, the facts."

Maybe he should read the state department's webpage. Here he would find remarks that Secretary of State Colin Powell made February 24, 2001 in Egypt. I have pasted the URL to save him some time and effort - http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2001/933.htm

"…the Foreign Minister and I and the President and I, had a good discussion about the nature of the sanctions -- the fact that the sanctions exist -- not for the purpose of hurting the Iraqi people, but for the purpose of keeping in check Saddam Hussein's ambitions toward developing weapons of mass destruction. We should constantly be reviewing our policies, constantly be looking at those sanctions to make sure that they are directed toward that purpose. That purpose is every bit as important now as it was ten years ago when we began it. And frankly they have worked. He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors."

What happened between February 24, 2001 and that first Tomahawk missile strike of Baghdad March 20, 2003?

Maybe it is time that the US government took Bruce Willis up on his offer to smoke out Saddam and get to the WMD!

The only Weapons of Mass Destruction that exist in the world today are the very thoughts which underpin Western Civilisation. It is the ideas of Capitalism which penetrate the actions of these deceitful politicians and self-serving governments. They do not protect the interests of the British people or the American people. They act as agents of the minority who benefit from the Capitalist system, those who milk the aftermath of war, of the corporations and the elites. It is time for the world to wake up from this nightmare that has been created by Capitalism.

It is now up to the Muslims to sound the wake up call to the world by unleashing the lost breed of politician which only an Islamic state can deliver. One which is motivated by a profound desire to govern the people according to that which the Creator has ordained for humanity to observe. It is only by the Khilafah that the lies and deceit of the likes of Bush and Blair will be vanquished. The future of the world is in your hands.

Khilafah.com Journal
07 Sha'baan 1424 Hijri
03 October 2003

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