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	U.S. 'Almost All Wrong' on Weapons (washingtonpost.com)
		Charles A. Duelfer, whom the Bush administration chose to complete the U.S. investigation of Iraq's weapons programs, said Hussein's ability to produce nuclear weapons had "progressively decayed" since 1991.
		Duelfer's report, delivered yesterday to two congressional committees, represents the government's most definitive accounting of Hussein's weapons programs, the assumed strength of which the Bush administration presented as a central reason for the war.
		Duelfer said one of Hussein's main strategic goals was to persuade the United Nations to lift economic sanctions, which had devastated the country's economy and, along with U.N. inspections, had forced him to stop weapons programs.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A12115-2004Oct6.html (1013 words)

	Charles A. Duelfer - SourceWatch
		Charles A. Duelfer replaced David Kay in the Iraq Survey Group (March 2004).
		He was replaced by Charles Duelfer, whose task was to extend the WMD cover-up for as long as possible.
		Duelfer was very adept at this, having done similar work while serving as the deputy executive chairman of the UN weapons inspection effort.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Charles_A._Duelfer (689 words)

	Online NewsHour: Iraq Survey Group Findings Conclude No Weapons of Mass Destruction Existed in Iraq -- April 27, 2005
		CHARLES DUELFER: I have confidence that the reality represented in the report is going to be borne out by what happens in the future.
		CHARLES DUELFER: That it was inevitable at a certain point; that there were also messages which Saddam was getting from other members of the Security Council, that perhaps telling him that this was not really going to happen.
		CHARLES DUELFER: Well, two things: It is natural and appropriate that political leaders put questions to the intelligence community; that then serves as their agenda, and that shapes in some ways the analysis.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june05/duelfer_4-27.html (2007 words)

	Online NewsHour: Weapons Search -- January 9, 2004
		Charles Duelfer was deputy executive commissioner of the original United Nations inspection regime in Iraq, UNSCOM, from 1993 to 2000.
		CHARLES DUELFER: Bear in mind, compared to the inspectors when we were in Iraq, they've had access to all the country, access to all the scientists and military people; they've been offering rewards for people to turn in people.
		CHARLES DUELFER: Part of the answer to your question will have to wait until Dr. Kay finishes his report, finishes his interviews with all the scientists who are involved.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june04/wmd_01-09.html (2295 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Inspector Says Saddam Wanted to Bluff Iran on Arms
		Charles Duelfer, head of the CIA's Iraq survey group that hunted weapons after the 2003 Gulf War, said the threat from Iran was very real to Saddam, who wanted to create an impression he had more armaments than he really had.
		In a rare on-the-record talk, Duelfer said narcissism and pride played a large role in Saddam's obfuscation of his weapons, since he wanted to be a leader in science and technology, which meant nuclear capabilities.
		Duelfer was the deputy executive chairman of UNSCOM, the U.N. Special Commission, which fielded inspectors in Iraq from 1991 to 1998.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/5-5-25/29045.html (512 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: What Charles Duelfer Missed by Christopher S. Carson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Duelfer believes that Saddam, who had already been heavily bombed in 1998 for not complying with UNSCOM’s inspections, thought he could keep his WMD human expertise (but not his visible stockpiles) preserved but inactive, and wait out the sanctions.
		Duelfer believes that the major pretext for war turned out to be Saddam’s own fiction, contrived for Saddam’s unique purposes and stemming from his flawed strategic information.
		Somehow, when reporting that the Duelfer Report “proved” that the “case for war” was bogus, the mainstream media missed the part about the “senior researchers” telling ISG that their “secret lab” had just been looted of all their good smallpox.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18497 (2567 words)

	Charles A. Duelfer transcript: Annotated, linked, and challenged (Oct. 6 2004, Senate Armed Services Committee) (Iraq's ...
		Charles A. Duelfer, the special adviser to the director of Central Intelligence regarding Iraqi weapons of mass destruction programs, concerning his report {html copy} on efforts to determine the status of weapons of mass destruction and related programs in Iraq.
		Duelfer and the ISG in Baghdad this past March, we witnessed firsthand the damaged vehicles that you utilized in the daily operation of your work and the consequent hazards that you face, not only yourself, but all of your team.
		An equally malicious prima facie criminal lie is Charles Duelfer’s decision to conceal from his written statement, and from his testimony, the uncontested fact, contained in his report, that the test he refers to was done on a circular course, never more than 15 kilometers from the base station controller.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /jksonc/docs/duelfer-sasc-20041006.html (12119 words)

	Undermining America: More Politicized Intelligence
		Yesterday Charles Duelfer, the chief weapons inspector in Iraq (he replaced David Kay 6 weeks ago), spun the facts on the ground in Iraq to make Saddam Hussein's weapons programs look more threatening than they really were.
		Duelfer that was submitted to the Armed Services Committee for the hearing this morning, includes material that suggests that Iraq had an active weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program while leaving out information that would lead one to doubt that it did.
		Duelfer’s public statement is written to express the author’s “suspicions” as to Iraq’s activities relating to possible weapons of mass destruction programs or activities while leaving out information in the classified report which points away from his suspicions.
	www.moveon.org /pac/blog/archives/000034.html (289 words)

	NPR : Interview: Charles Duelfer Discusses The Iraqi Presidential Compounds And What Weapons Inspectors Believe Could ...
		DUELFER: Well, there was a lot of noise created at the time on many sides, but we had a very specific purpose in seeking to go to these locations, and that was our strategy had been to find out where the decisions were taken on funding these weapons, controlling them and distributing them.
		DUELFER: There were locations which, when the Iraqi minders--those are the government representatives who led us around--they would say, `Well, this is the president's bedroom,' and they were quite elaborate.
		DUELFER: Certainly, I think it would be a mistake to repeat the types of inspections that we did in the past.
	www.npr.org /programs/atc/transcripts/2002/oct/021002.duelfer.html (1040 words)

	No Iraqi WMD \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Duelfer also in the report accused the former head of the U.N. oil-for-food program of accepting bribes in the form of vouchers for Iraqi oil sales from Hussein's government.
		But Duelfer said it was unlikely that level of pressure could have been sustained because of the costs both for the United States and for Iraqis.
		Duelfer concluded that Hussein had deliberately sought to maintain ambiguity about whether Iraq possessed illicit weapons as a deterrent to Iran.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041007/news_1n7weapons.html (1501 words)

	Instapundit.com -
		The chief American weapons inspector, Charles Duelfer, told The New York Sun yesterday that in 1995, when he was a member of the U.N. inspections team in Iraq, he urged the United Nations' atomic watchdog to remove tons of explosives that have since been declared missing.
		Duelfer said he was rebuffed at the time by the Vienna-based agency because its officials were not convinced the presence of the HMX, RDX, and PETN explosives was directly related to Saddam Hussein's programs to amass weapons of mass destruction.
		Duelfer wrote the Sun, "The policy was if acquired for the WMD program and used for it, it should be subject for destruction.
	instapundit.com /archives/018685.php (220 words)

	The World Today - Bush: There was a real threat of WMDs
		CHARLES DUELFER: This is a comprehensive report and I choose that word carefully because I think, as I mentioned, there's a couple little remaining issues where I think we can usefully develop more information and if we do, and if it's beneficial, we will, you know, produce short addendums to this report.
		Mr Duelfer found that Saddam Hussein did have the "intent" to build unconventional weapons, as soon as he could, and was working with a number of countries to subvert UN sanctions.
		CHARLES DUELFER: He clearly had ambitions with respect to weapons of mass destruction.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2004/s1215063.htm (822 words)

	The new arms hunter \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		Charles Duelfer, 51, the former No. 2 United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq, succeeds David Kay as leader of the U.S. weapons inspection team.
		Duelfer was acting chairman in the last few months of the existence of UNSCOM, dissolved in 2000 and replaced by a successor inspection and monitoring body.
		Another time, Duelfer was in Baghdad in 1996 for political talks when an inspection team led by Russian missile expert Nikita Smidovich was in a standoff with Iraqis outside ministry buildings.
	www.azstarnet.com /dailystar/printSN/8071.php (618 words)

	New York Daily News - Home - Iraq's WMD cupboard bare
		Charles Duelfer's report further undercuts the central claim of the Bush administration in justifying its war in Iraq - that Saddam hoarded chemical and biological weapons and sought a nuclear bomb.
		Duelfer and the White House tried to put the best face on the dismal intelligence failure - which helped send the nation towar and more than 1,000 American service members to their graves - by insisting that Saddam could have supplied AlQaeda with WMD know-how.
		Duelfer's team also found that while Saddam and other former Iraqi leaders said they hoped to rearm after UN sanctions were lifted, investigators found no evidence any steps had been taken to prepare for that day.
	www.nydailynews.com /front/story/239712p-205567c.html (381 words)

	USATODAY.com - U.S. leaks report of no weapons in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		By Thursday, as Duelfer's upcoming report was broadly outlined to reporters in Washington, the focus had switched again, to Iraqi "intent" before the invasion — to what were described as hopes among Iraqi leaders during the Saddam regime of someday reviving Iraqi weapons-making.
		Duelfer's Iraq Survey Group, some 1,200 military and intelligence specialists and support staff, had focused much of its effort on Iraq's "dual-use" chemical and biological industries — factories and laboratories whose equipment and products might be converted quickly to making weapons.
		In March, in an interim report to U.S. senators, Duelfer gave an example: An agricultural center south of Baghdad that was researching bacteria potentially useful in developing anthrax weapons.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2004-09-18-iraq-nowmd_x.htm (853 words)

	CNN.com - Report: No WMD stockpiles in Iraq - Oct 7, 2004
		According to a report by the CIA's Charles Duelfer, Saddam Hussein did not have WMD when the war began.
		In fact, the long-awaited report, authored by Charles Duelfer, who advises the director of central intelligence on Iraqi weapons, says Iraq's WMD program was essentially destroyed in 1991 and Saddam ended Iraq's nuclear program after the 1991 Gulf War.
		Duelfer, testifying at a Senate hearing on the report, said his account attempts to describe Iraq's weapons programs "not in isolation but in the context of the aims and objectives of the regime that created and used them."
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/10/06/iraq.wmd.report (954 words)

	CNN.com - WMD hunter: No stockpiles in Iraq - Jan. 24, 2004
		Charles Duelfer said in a statement that he is approaching his appointment "with an open mind."
		Duelfer, 51, is the former deputy executive chairman of the U.N. Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM).
		Duelfer, considered a tough-minded pragmatist, has recently expressed skepticism that any chemical or biological weapons will be found in Iraq.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/01/23/sprj.nirq.kay.intl (671 words)

	Charles Duelfer Warns on Inspections
		Charles Duelfer, the former deputy chief inspector, said last night that he feared that Hans Blix, the chief weapons inspector, would concede too much during the discussions with Baghdad officials on practical arrangements for inspections.
		Mr Blix's team is planning to fly to Iraq on October 15 to resume the search for weapons of mass destruction - four years after the last UN attempts at inspection.
		In one vast hall which Iraqi minders said was Saddam's bedroom stood a lone bed, a pair of slippers laid carefully on the floor next to it, in what Mr Duelfer concluded was almost certainly a joke.
	www.iraqfoundation.org /news/2002/isept/30_duelfer.html (769 words)

	Evidence of intent -- but no WMD program / Details released on report by U.S. weapons inspector
		A final version of the report, by Charles Duelfer, the top U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq, is expected to be made public within the next several weeks.
		Duelfer's report, based on inspections of clandestine labs, will say the Iraqis were capable of producing small quantities of lethal agents or of conducting very primitive research as a very early step toward broader weapons production.
		Duelfer, who took over as the chief weapons inspector in January, said in testimony to Congress in March that Iraq did have dual-use facilities that could have produced biological or chemical weapons on short notice.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/09/17/MNGA88QJIJ1.DTL (973 words)

	Charles Duelfer, Scott Ritter, and WMD
		Charles Duelfer was part of a Department of State group known as the “National Security Professionals.” Duelfer, who worked with Richard Clarke, does the bidding for the U.S. government, is apolitical, and supported a policy, from the onset of his tenure with UNSCOM, of regime change.
		He has always been a U.S. employee.” In March, 1996, Duelfer gave a video to CNN, which purported to show Iraqis burning documents, which came from a building that the inspectors were not allowed in to, even though he knew that they were burning leaves.
		He said Charlie Duelfer fronted this operation and was the special liaison to the CIA to obtain special documents to give to CNN.
	briefcaseman.gnn.tv /users/user.php?bid=3312&r=1 (1329 words)

	Weapons of Mass Destruction and Iraq - Council on Foreign Relations
		The reasons for this failure have been explored by numerous official investigative bodies, the Iraq Survey Group was one of the first the administration sent in itself after the war, and Charles Duelfer, who had been deputy executive chairman of the U.N. Special Commission in Iraq earlier from 1993 until UNSCOM was terminated in 2000.
		DUELFER: Well, one of the advantages that we had in our work that we didn’t have when I was at the UN, was we had Saddam.
		Duelfer, you pointed out that Saddam’s primary goal was to get rid of sanctions, but you also stated before the Armed Services Committee in your prepared statement that he could quickly reconstitute his chemical and biological weapons.
	www.cfr.org /publication.html?id=8157 (6796 words)

	Duelfer’s Bombshell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Duelfer is the successor to David Kay as the top American in Iraq searching for Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction.
		Duelfer that he has discovered not one, not two, but “10 or 12 sarin and mustard rounds.”
		Duelfer was able to find these shells in a vast country amid a population still intimidated by anti-American violence, there are more to be found.
	daily.nysun.com /Repository/getmailfiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2004/06/28&ID=Ar01002 (350 words)

	DefenseLINK News: Iraq Survey Group Continues Search for WMDs
		Duelfer's testimony before the committee was behind closed doors and his unclassified remarks were posted on the CIA's public Web site.
		Duelfer said he was surprised by the "extreme reluctance of Iraqi managers, scientists and engineers to speak freely," which he said is making the ISG's work more difficult.
		Duelfer said the group is trying to find out whether Saddam's regime had weapons of mass destruction when it was toppled, and exactly what its WMD capabilities and intentions were.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/Mar2004/n03302004_200403305.html (409 words)

	t a c i t u s \|\| Comments Charles Duelfer reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		"Duelfer has found that French, Chinese and Russian companies were involved in the corruption of the Oil-for-Food program.
		Duelfer's report shows that Saddam Hussein was a threat and that he retained the intent and capability to make WMD - as soon as he thought it safe for him to do so.
		The Duelfer report shows Saddam Hussein, through illicit streams, amassed about $11 billion in revenue from the early 1990s to 2003 outside U.N.-approved methods.
	www.tacitus.org /comments/2004/10/6/141329/306/2 (263 words)

	Encyclopedia: Iraq and weapons of mass destruction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		However, on October 6, 2004, the head of the Iraq Survey Group (ISG), Charles Duelfer, announced to the United States Senate Armed Services Committee that the group found no evidence that Iraq under Saddam Hussein had produced and stockpiled any weapons of mass destruction since 1991, when UN sanctions were imposed.
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	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Iraq-and-weapons-of-mass-destruction (10194 words)

	Everything I Know Is Wrong: Charles Duelfer Reports... What Exactly?
		The finding by chief weapons searcher Charles Duelfer that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction posed an immediate political challenge Wednesday for President Bush amid a tide of news raising questions about the case he made for war and the way he has waged it.
		For some reason the MSM reports don't mention them (though to be entirely fair, the USA Today piece mentions in the last sentence, "Duelfer concluded, based on interviews with Saddam and other top officials of his regime, that he intended to revive his nuclear weapons in the future").
		Duelfer said that during the 12 years after the Persian Gulf war "Iraq's ability to produce a weapon decayed" and that "the time for Iraq to build a nuclear weapon tended to increase for the duration of the sanctions."
	www.everythingiknowiswrong.com /2004/10/charles_duelfer.html (1239 words)

	USATODAY.com - Final report: Iraq had no WMDs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Using the research of the 1,700-member Iraq Survey Group, Duelfer concluded that Saddam ordered his arsenal of chemical and biological weapons destroyed in 1991 and 1992 and halted nuclear weapons development, all in hopes of lifting crippling economic sanctions.
		Duelfer quoted Saddam as telling an FBI interrogator "that nuclear weapons were the right of any country that could build them."
		The report, which drew on CIA and FBI interrogation reports on Saddam, says he was obsessed with his status in the Arab world, dreaming of weapons of mass destruction to pump up his prestige.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2004-10-06-wmd_x.htm (705 words)

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