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IISS Strategic Dossier - Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Net Assessment

  • NPR All Things Considered - Terry Taylor NPR - All Things Considered - September 24th 2002 JOHN YDSTIE, host: Iraq wasted no time today responding to the British report. At a news conference in Baghdad just hours after it was released, Saddam Hussein's chief adviser, Amir Al-Saadi, said the dossier was long on allegations and short on evidence. He called it, quote, "a hodgepodge of half-truths, lies, shortsighted and naive allegations which will not stand up to an investigation." Al-Saadi also insisted United Nations...
  • BBC - Olivia Bosch - Iraq weapons inspections BBC - September 20th 2002 To watch the broadcast, click on the attachment at the bottom of the page. Iraq has told the UN it is ready to readmit weapons inspectors, four years after the last inspections were carried out there. The chief UN arms inspector, Hans Blix, has said he hopes to have an advance party in Iraq on 15 October. President Bush meets the Russian foreign minister, Igor Ivanov and defence minister, Sergei Ivanov, on Friday in an effort to win Russian acquiescence in his...
  • LA Weekly - Terence Taylor - A Big Threat LA Weekly - September 20th 2002 A Big Threat LAST WEEK THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR Strategic Studies (IISS), a London-based think tank, released its dossier, "Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Net Assessment." The report reviews what is known about Iraq's chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs -- past, present and future. The evidence is, at times, scant and sketchy -- and this has led both those who support and those who oppose a war on Iraq to claim the report as...
  • NPR All Things Considered - Terence Taylor NPR - All Things Considered - September 19th 2002 One of the key dangers administration officials have focused on in recent weeks is that Saddam Hussein could obtain a nuclear weapon. Now a respected independent group in London has offered its own analysis of Iraq's nuclear program. The International Institute of Strategic Studies says Iraq still does not have the uranium to make a nuclear weapon, but the institute's Terry Taylor says Iraq does have hundreds of nuclear experts on its payroll....
  • BBC - Terence Taylor - The man from the UN BBC - September 18th 2002 Colonel Terry Taylor, a former UN inspector, spent six years investigating whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Despite denials and attempts to obstruct this work, the Iraqis eventually admitted to such a programme. "I went to Iraq to search for evidence of biological weapons. It was like looking for a needle in a haystack. We needed to track personnel, materials and equipment. What made it difficult was that the things we were looking for could be...
  • Times - Olivia Bosch - Interview Times - September 17th 2002 As the UN's weapons inspectors prepare to return to Iraq, a former inspector from the mid-1990s describes how accountants are just as important as chemists in tracking down President Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. Olivia Bosch, now a Visiting Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said today that military, chemical and biological experts were necessary on the team, but that accountants and auditors, as with the Enron...
  • NPR Weekend Edition Saturday - John Chipman NPR - September 14th 2002 To hear the interview, click here (follow the link from this page) SCOTT SIMON, host: This week, a report from the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London assessed the Iraqi threat, and it has given new ammunition to both sides in the debate over Iraq. John Chipman is director of the institute and joins us from London. Mr. Chipman, thanks very much for being with us. Mr. JOHN CHIPMAN (Director, International Institute for Strategic Studies): Thank you...
  • ABC Radio National - John Chipman ABC (Australia) Radio National - September 10th 2002 The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies says that Iraq could produce a nuclear weapon soon, if it were able to obtain supplies of radioactive materials. The independent 'think-tank' also argues the development of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons is the "core objective" of Iraqi policy. The report concludes that the international community has a "pressing duty" to respond to the regime and its...
  • CBC Newsworld - John Chipman CBC Newsworld - September 9th 2002 CBC Newsworld's Dennis Trudeau speaks with John Chipman about the chance Iraq could assemble nuclear weapons.To hear the broadcast, click here.
  • BBC Breakfast - John Chipman - Iraq's weapons BBC Breakfast - September 9th 2002 To hear the broadcast, click here A major study of Saddam Hussein's arsenal of weapons is expected to show that he does have significant amounts of chemical and biological weapons, and could produce nuclear warheads with the assistance of other countries. The report, published by the Institute of Strategic Studies, will be released later this morning. It comes as Tony Blair is expected to call for the United Nations to impose a deadline on Iraq - to allow...
  • ZDF "heute journal" - Klaus Becher ZDF "heute journal" - September 9th 2002 Gespräch mit Klaus Becher vom Institut für Strategische Studien über das mögliche Atomwaffenpotenzial des Irak.
  • BBC - Gary Samore BBC - September 9th 2002 To watch the interview, click here.