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HARDtalk: Hans Blix, Former chief United Nations Weapons Inspector

08/02/2010

Hans Blix, Former chief United Nations Weapons Inspector

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Jonathan Charles speaks to Hans Blix, the former chief United Nations weapons inspector.

Jonathan Charles speaks to Hans Blix, the head of the UN team tasked with trying to find out whether Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

Hans Blix has been accused of rewriting the history of what happened in the run up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq by Tony Blair and his former foreign secretary. 

He was the head of the UN team tasked with trying to find out whether Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. He thought his mission was working and he wanted more time before war was declared, but now his memory of events is being questioned. He speaks ro Jonathan Charles.

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