TOO LATE TO BAR THE GATE:

Analysis: Inspectors provoke arguments in fateful meeting (Paul Reynolds, 3/07/03, BBC News)

It was notable that the nuclear inspector Dr Mohammed ElBaradei in particular was upbeat about his work and appeared almost ready to declare that Iraq had no nuclear weapons programme.

Along the way he demolished the claim by the British Government in its dossier on Iraqi weapons last year when it said that "there is intelligence that Iraq has sought the supply of significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Iraq has no legitimate reason to acquire uranium.

That claim, Dr ElBaradei declared was based on documents which were "not authentic" - that is they were forgeries.

It doesn't matter any more. So long as Korea, Pakistan and other irresponsible and destitute regimes have nukes we can't leave people like Saddam in power to just buy them. Posted by Orrin Judd at March 7, 2003 9:18 PM