Blix non vuole soffrire e

["Nello Margiotta" <animarg@tin.it>]

Dopo aver detto ieri che il ritrovamento di WMD sarebbe stata una
sofferenza, oggi accusa gli USA di voler costruire false prove per
giustrificare la guerra

Hans Blix accuses U.S. of "fabricating" evidence.
12.04.2003 [08:48]



 Blix: US was bent on war

Nicholas Watt
Saturday April 12, 2003
The Guardian

War against Iraq was a foregone conclusion months before the first shot was
fired, the chief weapons inspector Hans Blix has claimed.
In a scathing attack on Britain and the US, Mr Blix accused them of planning
the war "well in advance" and of "fabricating" evidence against Iraq to
justify their campaign.

Letting rip after months of frustration, he told the Spanish daily El Pais:
"There is evidence that this war was planned well in advance. Sometimes this
raises doubts about their attitude to the [weapons] inspections."

Mr Blix said Iraq was paying a "a very high price in terms of human lives
and the destruction of a country" when the threat of banned weapons could
have been contained by UN inspections.

The 74-year Swedish diplomat made clear that he believes he was misled by
President Bush. At a White House meeting last October Mr Bush backed the
work of Unmovic, the UN inspection team.

But at the time Mr Blix knew "there were people within the Bush
administration who were sceptical and who were working on engineering regime
change". By the start of March the hawks in Washington and London were
growing impatient.

He said he believed that finding weapons of mass destruction had been
relegated as an aim and the main objective had become the toppling of Saddam
Hussein.

  ????????: Nicholas Watt, The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/