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US, Britain recruiting UN arms inspectors to find banned arms: Blix

AFP, Stockholm
The United States and Britain are recruiting UN arms inspectors to help find banned weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix told Swedish Radio in an interview on Saturday.
"They have turned to some people who currently work for us and asked them to come down and help. These are our people who come from countries that are engaged in the conflict down there," Blix said, adding that the inspectors were free to release themselves from their UN contracts if they wished.
The inspectors were evacuated out of Iraq after less than four months into their mission and shuttled to Cyprus on March 18, two days before the US-led bombing campaign began on Baghdad.
Blix, who announced Friday that he would step down from his post when his contract runs out in June, said his team was still receiving British and US intelligence information about weapons finds made in Iraq.
"Our contacts with their intelligence organisations are continuing and it is clear that some of the information we receive is coming from there, but I don't think it is much more than what has been reported in the media," he said.
The 74-year-old Swede said he was not convinced that the discovery of discarded Iraqi gas masks by coalition troops and a suspected
chemical weapons factory was evidence that the Iraqi regime is hiding weapons of mass destruction.
"We want real proof before we believe it. And what has been presented so far does not fall under that category," he said, adding that he wanted "the smoking gun".
In a separate interview with the German weekly Welt am Sonntag, to be published Sunday, Blix said the inspectors' work "irritated" the United States as Washington had sought a UN resolution legitimizing a war on Iraq.
Asked if the United States had asked him to provide information or any expertise, Blix said: "No, I rather had the feeling, before they decided to go to war, that our work irritated them."
US officials "wanted us to present certain results, which would have allowed them to obtain a (UN) resolution" legitimizing the use of force.
Blix said that searches undertaken by the inspectors at Iraqi sites following hints by US intelligence had brought only very poor results.
"We only found weapons at three of the places where we were sent," he said. "And they weren't even illegal weapons of mass destruction."
"Now it will be interesting to see if the Americans will inspect sites of which they never told us," he added.