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Nature 422, 550 (10 April 2003) | doi:10.1038/422550a

Allies will expose Iraq's weapons, says Blix

Declan Butler

Hans Blix, the chief weapons inspector for the United Nations (UN), last week admitted that it will be the US-led coalition invading Iraq, and not the UN, that will take the lead in tracking down and interrogating Iraqi scientists involved in the development of any chemical, biological or nuclear weapons there.Speaking in Stockholm at a seminar on postwar Iraq, Blix said that the coalition would stand a better chance of finding weapons of mass destruction (WMD) than his inspectors had done, because Iraqi scientists would be more cooperative once Saddam Hussein's regime had been overthrown.