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12.04.03, 04:09
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.
www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,935251,00.html