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Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix dose not believe that Iraq would use weapons of mass destruction (WMD) against British and US forces in the war against Iraq, a Belgian newspaper said Tuesday.
Even if Iraq had WMD, "I doubt very much that they would use them because this war has gained them a certain amount of sympathy in the world, which would turn against them if they used chemical arms," Blix said in an interview on Le Soir, a local newspaper in the French language.
Blix, who supervised the return of arms inspectors to Iraq before the war, also said UN arms inspectors had not had enough time to carry out their work and the United States had showed a certain amount of impatience by launching a war.
The United States "really wanted us to come up with arguments confirming what they had said, for example, on Iraqi drones which (the US) said were made for transporting chemical weapons," he said.
"We had not seen that, but we had not finished our work on that point," Blix added.
(Xinhua News Agency April 1, 2003)
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