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Blix is the UN's chief weapons inspector, and it is not too much of a stretch to imagine a situation in which his judgment over whether Iraq really possesses weapons of mass destruction could mean the difference between war and peace. Sure enough, if Washington is determined to go to war, no mere UN functionary is going to get in its way. But if Blix insisted that Iraq was cooperating, then the international legality of military action would be highly questionable, and even staunch allies such as Britain would have queasy second thoughts. It might cause the Bush White House to pause.
A key moment for Blix is looming next Thursday, when an Iraqi delegation is due in New York for a second round of talks on weapons inspections. If the Iraqis refuse, the problem is out of Blix's hands. Otherwise, Blix's seat at UN headquarters is likely to get significantly hotter.
His predecessor, Richard Butler, a charismatic and sometimes abrasive Australian who led the UN Special Commission (Unscom) inspection team, was pilloried in the Arab world and beyond when it emerged that his inspectors had passed on secrets to the US and Israel. Blix has kept a lower profile but there are many hawks in Washington ready to denounce him at the slightest hint of appeasement towards Saddam.
The critics point out that he was originally a compromise candidate suggested by two nations sympathetic to Baghdad (Russia and France) and that he had a history of being soft on Baghdad when he ran the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). They say his organisation - the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (Unmovic) will be "Unscom-lite", a wishy-washy version of its predecessor, and point to the fact that his inspectors have been given "cultural sensitivity" training as evidence of their readiness to buckle under Iraqi pressure.
Blix speaks with a caution honed by decades in the UN system, but insists he is ready to get tough. He says the "cultural sensitivity" training will not make them suckers for Saddam's tricks - it merely means they are less likely to be obnoxious (a charge often levelled at Unscom). "You have to behave yourself, but you have to be firm. You have to do your job. We certainly feel there is a right to undertake inspections on a Friday, or on a holiday or during the night, but we do not see any need to undertake any unnecessary provocations."
Once the Iraqis agree to inspections he will respond decisively, deploying the first of 230 trained inspectors in Baghdad in a few days. "We would be there with an advance team very quickly. Perhaps within a week we would have some people going down there to establish contact with the Iraqis," he says. "We know where we can hire helicopters and where we can lease airplanes. We are trying to prepare as much in advance of the green light as we can."
At full strength, there will be about 100 Unmovic inspectors in Iraq at any one time. With a headquarters in Baghdad and bases in Basra in the south and Mosul in the north, they could reach any point in the country within hours. The search for nuclear weapons will mainly be the IAEA's job, but that is the more straightforward task, as making atom bombs requires extensive facilities and leaves telltale signs of radiation. Unmovic will have the far harder job of looking for chemical and biological weapons, and missiles: anthrax or smallpox can be cultivated in a cellar, and transported in innocent-looking refrigerated trucks.
Blix's inspectors will visit suspect sites from a list of 700 drawn up by Unmovic, on the basis of information inherited from Unscom and intelligence provided by national intelligence agencies and defectors. They will use state-of-the-art sensors to detect traces of chemical or biological weapons. Then, within 60 days of these preliminary inspections, Unmovic will present the Iraqi government with the list of evidence it needs to provide.
"It's not just 'let the inspectors in'. They have to convince the inspectors that there is nothing left," says Blix. In the case of anthrax, for example, he adds: "Iraq states that it has produced 8,500 litres, but there are no production records to sustain that, so it's a unilateral statement. Then they say they destroyed it all in the summer of 1991, but there are no protocols, no records, of the destruction. It's an open issue. Maybe it is truthful, but until evidence has been produced then I would have to draw the conclusion that they could dry it - and if the anthrax were dried, it could still be viable."
If, at next week's meeting, Baghdad relents and lets Blix in, his experience as head of the IAEA will not be forgotten. He concedes that while he was in charge, before 1991, the Iraqis concealed an advanced nuclear weapons programme. "It's correct to say that the IAEA was fooled by the Iraqis, but the lesson was learned," he says. "Because not seeing something, not seeing an indication of something, does not lead automatically to the conclusion that there is nothing."


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