Futile search for a smoking gun

[David Morris]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=255507&contrassID=2&subContrassID=15&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
 
Military force - and not UN inspection teams - is the only way to deal with the
problem of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, says former UN
biological arms chief Richard O. Spertzel in this interview with Ha'aretz .
 
By Haim Handwerker

NEW YORK - People who think that the UN inspectors will find biological or
chemical or even nuclear weapons in Iraq in such a short period of time have
unrealistic excpectations, says Richard O. Spertzel, who served as head of the
biological weapons inspection team for the United Nations Special Commission on
Iraq (UNSCOM) from 1994-98. 

"It will take months and even years to find the `smoking gun' that people are
talking about," he says. "We have to remember who we are dealing with. Saddam
Hussein is a very sophisticated person. Whoever thinks that the inspectors will
go to Iraq and find his secrets in a few weeks doesn't understand who we are
dealing with." 



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