Mr. Blix was head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna from 1981-97.
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U.N. weapons inspection chief Hans Blix said his inspectors never found evidence of such labs.
So the Blix process was destroying a delivery mechanism, and (interjection) ... we were suddenly told.
Mr Blix is reported to be preparing to tell Iraq to destroy the missiles.
Its 12, 000-page declaration a month later did not answer any of Mr Blix's outstanding questions.
Mr Blix said the documents contained "some elements which are positive which need to be explored further".
It went wrong at the time of Hans Blix" the IAEA chief at the time "in 1993 and 1994.
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But Blix wants his team to return, saying it would increase the credibility of any weapons discoveries.
But Mr Blix's hunch before the war, that he was up to no good, wasn't far wrong.
This would be shortly after Hans Blix, the chief weapons inspector, makes another report to the Security Council.
Hans Blix, Mohammed El Baradei and the other inspectors seem more inclined than ever to forgive Iraqi intransigence.
Yet Mr Blix is clear about the main reason why military preparations eventually outpaced fraught diplomacy Iraq's own obduracy.
He is not now co-operating, as Dr Blix made clear in his recent report to the Security Council.
But the fact remains that Saddam Hussein could not have asked for a more pliable character than Hans Blix.
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Thus, you could say that Hans Blix was handpicked by the very regime he was to inspect and disarm.
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Blix has put a Saturday deadline for Iraq to begin destroying the missiles.
Mr. Blix gave Iraq a clean bill of health and Saddam official cover.
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None of this, it seems, set off any alarms bells for Mr. Blix.
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Mr Blix stressed that Baghdad had provided inspections teams with prompt access to the sites they wished to visit.
Mr Blix confirmed that Iraq's Al-Samoud missile programme exceeded UN-imposed limits on range and was "therefore proscribed for Iraq".
Mr. Blix knows that a huge majority of his fellow Swedes despise the idea of a military confrontation with Iraq.
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Mr Blix has been hoping that he will be allowed to present another report to the Security Council in February.
Mr. Blix buried deep in his latest report the news of an illegal Iraqi drone capable of delivering chemical weapons.
On December 20th, Mr Blix called on America and Britain to share any intelligence they might have with the inspectors.
Only hours before Mr Blix made his report, Iraq passed a law banning such weapons something the UN has long demanded.
The 10th anniversary of the war in Iraq will be marked by a lecture from Swedish politician and diplomat Hans Blix.
All this encouraged France to suggest that the Security Council ask for another progress report from Mr Blix on March 14th.
Earlier, Iraqi officials said they were considering how to respond to the Blix demand that Iraq begin destroying the missiles this weekend.
The State Department appears to be putting its full confidence in Blix.
If Iraq co-operates, however, Mr Blix holds out the possibility of the country rejoining the international community and, eventually, having sanctions lifted.
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