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	Online NewsHour: Newsmaker: Rolf Ekeus -- November 11, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Rolf Ekeus, the former head of the U.N.'s Iraq inspection team, discusses the prospects for a potential new round of inspections.
		ROLF EKEUS: Well, I mean, again, I think Saddam Hussein may have his shortcomings, his strategic thinking, but I think he has rather smart tactical approaches to these cases, so I think that’s my guess of course, he will make a relatively sound declaration of the weapons issues on the obvious things.
		ROLF EKEUS: That is I think a terrible burden put upon them, because they know that – Dr. Blix and Dr. Elbaradei--they know that if they report something of bad behavior, it may open up for a military attack.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec02/ekeus_11-11.html (1920 words)

	UN weapons inspectors knew that Iraq no longer possessed WMD
		Rolf Ekeus was Hans Blix's predecessor between 1991 and 1997.
		ROLF EKEUS: It was clear when UNSCOM was forced to close down, I finished myself '97 and Richard Butler at the end of '98 that there could be hardly any stockpiles.
		ROLF EKEUS: I think I was crystal clear in the time before the war, I made clear that there were all the Russian missiles, more than 800 missiles capable of being modified into long range capabilities had been accounted for.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article4869.htm (1069 words)

	Security Council
		Ekeus in place administration officials could assure critics that a credible chief inspector was back on the job, even if sanctions were ultimately lifted in the process.
		Ekeus was routinely vilified by the Iraqis, who called him "the damned Ekeus" and accused him of, among other things, causing the starvation of Iraqi children and being an Israeli spy.
		Ekeus said that President Saddam Hussein had never given up plans to build biological and chemical weapons and that the Iraqis were prepared to lie at every step of the inspection effort to conceal and salvage their illicit programs.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/sanction/iraq1/000118.htm (1405 words)

	Arms Control Association: Arms Control Today: Ambassador Rolf Ekeus: Leaving Behind the UNSCOM Legacy in Iraq
		Rolf Ekeus: The UNSCOM mandate has two major components: the identification and elimination of proscribed weapons and the means for their delivery; and, designing and implementing a system for ongoing monitoring and verification of Iraq to prevent it from acquiring the prohibited items again.
		Ekeus: If the Iraqi leadership had decided once and for all to forgo the option of acquiring weapons of mass destruction, the task of eliminating the remnants of proscribed weapons programs would have been a straight-forward and technical one, which could have been accomplished within a time-span of some six months.
		Ekeus: Obviously, some immediate, national financial and political interests may inspire member-states of the UN Security Council to consider a loosening of the controls on Iraq before the weapons provisions of the cease-fire resolution have been implemented.
	www.armscontrol.org /act/1997_06-07/ekeus.asp (3839 words)

	Online NewsHour: Weapons Search -- September 22, 2003
		ROLF EKEUS: If you think about the situation in '91 when United States liberated Kuwait together with U.K., Iraq was flooded with chemical weapons, for instance, and also had the bio program quite advanced.
		ROLF EKEUS: Yes, there's a lot to spill, but we have to recall that several of them are high quality scientists and experts.
		ROLF EKEUS: It was implausible, it was contrary to Iraq policy, the weapons policy, and that was in the public demand because it had been reported.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec03/ekeus_9-22.html (1385 words)

	Ex-Inspector Rolf Ekeus Praises New U.N. Iraq Resolution, November 12, 2002
		Ambassador Rolf Ekeus, a career Swedish diplomat who was chief of the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) from 1993-97, discussed the new resolution (UNSCR 1441) at length at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy November 12.
		Other strong points of the resolution, Ekeus said, include its reference to terrorism (citing UNSCR 687), as well as its reference to Iraq's human right's record, although "I don't believe there is the ‘stomach' to take on Iraq over human rights," as NATO did to Yugoslavia over abuses in Kosovo, he said.
		Ekeus noted that the inspectors' first report to the Security Council may state that they have found "zero non-disclosed items," since the report is due only 60 days after inspections are to begin.
	www.usembassy.it /file2002_11/alia/a2111313.htm (1051 words)

	[01 May 1997]: PRESS BRIEFING ON IRAQ SPECIAL COMMISSION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ekeus said he was disappointed that the agenda he had set out for the Commission -- to reach a situation enabling the Security Council to decide to lift sanctions against Iraq -- had not been reached.
		Ekeus beginning 1 July, said the Commission's work remained a very important job for the United Nations and an important task for the whole international community, including the people of Iraq.
		Ekeus said, "It is a sort of endurance test between the Security Council and the Iraqis, in a sense.
	www.un.org /News/briefings/docs/1997/19970501.ekeus.1ma.html (2006 words)

	ROLF EKEUS EXECUTIVE CHAIR, U.N. SPECIAL COMMISSION - WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY -- JANUARY 29, 1997
		EKEUS: Well, I must say that I think there is an overall complacency in the sense that fundamentally the situation in Iraq is under control.
		Q Rolf, you mentioned that there was a significant missile capability they might retain, and that they might retain biological weapons.
		EKEUS: Well, as you know, it was a matter which the Security Council addressed already in 1991, when it adopted two resolutions, 706 and 712, allowing Iraq to sell a limited amount of oil.
	www.fas.org /news/iraq/1997/01/ekeus_970129.htm (8831 words)

	The Enforcer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		When Ekeus is in town, officials try to steer him toward the picture, as the local press clamors for a snapshot of the UN special envoy stepping on the image of Iraq's American nemesis.
		Ekeus feels it is this daily Iraqi resistance, aimed at undercutting UNSCOM effectiveness, that continues to produce a palpable tension between Baghdad and his team.
		Ekeus also spends much of his time looking over Iraqi receipts of purchases to check that Baghdad is not importing chemical agents or materiel to initiate a new weapons program.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/sipa/PUBS/SLANT/SPRING97/mogul.html (1391 words)

	CNN.com
		EKEUS: Well, I must say, I -- the existing resolution was drafted and agreed upon in a situation where there was not enough political attention.
		EKEUS: It is important for the whole credibility of the whole inspection regime.
		EKEUS: That is a play in the Security Council, how it goes, and I hope strongly that the Security Council can get its act together and doesn't repeat its fumbling and stumbling they did in '98, '99.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0210/01/i_qaa.01.html (3050 words)

	Reinforcing an opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Rolf Ekeus, former head of UNSCOM's investigation into Iraq's WMD, explains why the Bush administration can't tell the truth -- it's not that they're lying, they're married to bogus fundamental assumptions.
		Ekeus acknowledges the Bush administration claim that the character of the Iraqi program was such that the program -- not the stockpiles -- constituted the danger to peace.
		What Ekeus doesn't address is that all the factual evidence he puts forward (and he does so with great authority) clearly shows the claims made by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell and Tenet were not factual.
	nwcitizen.com /wic/Quickly/Reinforcinganopinion.html (1221 words)

	Meet the Real WMD Fabricator: A Swede Named Rolf Ekeus
		I give you Rolf Ekeus, former Swedish ambassador to the United States and, before that, the executive chairman of the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) on Iraq from 1991 to 1997.
		It was Ekeus who played a pivotal role in justifying the continued imposition of sanctions, on the grounds that these sanctions were essential as a means of applying pressure to the tyrant in Baghdad.
		In fact Ekeus was perfectly well aware from the mid-l990s on that Saddam Ussein had no such weapons of mass destruction.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Articles7/Cockburn_Ekeus.htm (1093 words)

	9612—Iraq Update; Medical Ethics—3/19/96
		ROLF EKEUS, Chairman, UN Special Commission on Iraq: Combine the number of missiles, even if four or five missiles, with potential biological warhead to be delivered long range from Iraq, and we are faced with quite a serious problem.
		EKEUS: The special commission is set up by the Security Council to supervise the identification and elimination of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, as well as long-range missiles that are nuclear, chemical, biological, and long-range missiles.
		EKEUS: The other cause is that there may be some dispute, in addition, among the members if there should be additional conditions.
	www.commongroundradio.org /shows/96/9612.html (3426 words)

	University pays tribute to Swedish ambassador - Minnesota Daily
		Rolf Ekeus, the Swedish ambassador to the United States, met with College of Liberal Arts Dean Steven Rosenstone on Wednesday to discuss the missing hero.
		Ekeus said accounts from Soviet prison survivors suggested that Wallenberg was alive and kicking.
		Ekeus was one of the United Nations ambassadors that prevented war over the recent nuclear and chemical weapons inspections in Iraq.
	www.mndaily.com /articles/1999/10/07/11996 (557 words)

	Disarmament Diplomacy: - The Iraq-UNSCOM Dispute: latest Skirmishes in War of Words
		Ekeus also noted that Iraq had declared, in October 1996, that it had produced 8,377 pounds (3,800 kilograms) of the VX nerve gas used in chemical weapons.
		Ekeus is not bringing his mission to an end but prolonging the duration of the blockade imposed by the United Nations against Iraq."
		Ambassador Ekeus, who has held the post since the Commission was set up by the Security Council in 1991, is to return to the service of his Government.
	www.acronym.org.uk /14iraq.htm (750 words)

	HarryHurley.com
		Former U.N. chief arms inspector Rolf Ekeus had explained that anthrax is one form of WMD that is easily hidden and stored.
		Ekeus went on to explain that in such a form, anthrax is fairly safe and would be difficult for arms inspectors to track down.
		Based on statements by Blix and his predecessor Rolf Ekeus, Tenet's claims may be accurate, in a strict technical sense.
	4dw.net /bunting/B/020904blix.html (684 words)

	A Threat to the World?: The facts about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction
		As a result, UNSCOM’s executive chairman Rolf Ekeus reported to the Security Council on 11 April 1997 that "not much is unknown about Iraq’s retained proscribed weapons capabilities" (para.46).
		On 15 October 1993, Rolf Ekeus, Executive Chairman of UNSCOM from 1991 to 1997, reported to the Security Council that substantial progress had been made in dismantling Iraq’s chemical programmes.
		Ritter has reported that both he and Ekeus were convinced that the disarmament of Iraq’s chemical weapons was almost complete by early 1995.
	middleeastreference.org.uk /latw020404.html (2599 words)

	[casi] "A Swede Called Rolf Ekeus"
		Ekeus learned this on the night of August 22, l995, in Amman, from the lips of General Hussein Kamel, who had just defected from Iraq, along with some of his senior military aides.
		As he told Ekeus that night, "All weapons, biological, chemical, missile, nuclear, were destroyed." (The UNSCOM record of the session can be viewed at http://www.fair.org/press-releases/kamel.pdf).
		For playing the game, the way the US desired it to be played, Ekeus got his rewards: a pleasing welcome in Washington when he arrived there as Swedish ambassador, respectful audiences along the world's diplomatic circuits.
	www.casi.org.uk /discuss/2003/msg03812.html (1069 words)

	CNN - U.N. arms inspector's nomination in doubt - January 18, 2000
		U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's proposal to appoint Ekeus is supported by the United States.
		Ekeus, currently the Swedish ambassador to the United States, headed the U.N. Special Commission after the Gulf War's end in 1991.
		Russian and French ambassadors said Tuesday it was Ekeus' association with the old commission, tainted by allegations of spying on behalf of the United States, that made him unfit to head the new agency.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/meast/01/18/un.iraq (738 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Iraq arms teams were 'manipulated'
		Swedish diplomat Rolf Ekeus, speaking on Swedish Radio, said the US had sought information about how the Iraqi security services were organised.
		Mr Ekeus also said attempts were made to provoke crises which could then, as he put it, "form the basis for direct military action".
		Mr Ekeus' revelations will strengthen claims by the Iraqi Government that it has not been treated fairly and that the UN is not an impartial player.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/world/middle_east/2161552.stm (468 words)

	Iraq USIA News Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ekeus said that the problem arose because the same "institutions that are involved in the concealment" of weapons programs are responsible for the security of Iraqi leaders.
		Ekeus met with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz and other Iraqi officials during his visit.
		Iraq turned over what it called "full, final, and complete" disclosures on its biological and chemical weapons programs and is to turn over the disclosures on their long-range missile and nuclear weapons programs by the end of June.
	www.fas.org /news/iraq/1996/23448201-23452840.htm (447 words)

	CNS - Iraqi Missile Abstracts: 1995
		Samra'i stated the information in an open letter written to UN envoy Rolf Ekeus, but no specific figures were discussed.
		Ekeus also asserted that Baghdad had placed orders for other missile-related "technologies, supplies, and material." Although Ekeus declined to comment on the source of this material, another U.N. official stated that firms from Germany, France, and Ukraine were among the suppliers to Iraq.
		On 12/5/95, UNSCOM Chief Rolf Ekeus announced that after examining Iraqi documents he had come to the conclusion that Iraq had produced 80 Scud-type missiles and 10 missile engines remained unaccounted for [5].
	cns.miis.edu /research/iraq/iraqmi95.htm (1841 words)

	Rolf Ekéus: Dismantling Saddam's Arsenal - Middle East Quarterly - March 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Rolf Ekéus has headed the United Nations Special Commission since it was established by the Security Council in April 1991 and tasked with dismantling the Iraqi arsenal of long-range missiles and weapons of mass destruction.
		Born in 1935, Ambassador Ekéus joined the Swedish foreign service in 1962 and served during a distinguished career in such cities as Bonn, Nairobi, and the Hague.
		Rolf Ekéus: I'd like to rephrase the question slightly, to what was the state of the arsenal in January 1991, because Iraq conducted a variety of crash programs after August 1990 and made some remarkable progress in its arms programs.
	www.meforum.org /article/293 (2513 words)

	ASA Newsletter
		Ekeus and guests at the subject colloquium as well as from the extensive archives of the ASA Newsletter, various intelligence reports and the excellent reference/source document: Iraq-A Country Study by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress.)
		Rolf Ekeus to talk on the UNSCOM experience and disarmament efforts in Iraq.
		Ekeus said that UNSCOM was in effect the UN's pilot scheme for Arms Control and in the long run proved itself to be a serious Arms Control organization and one that Iraq had to deal with.
	www.asanltr.com /newsletter/00-3/newsletter.htm (534 words)

	Townhall.com :: Columns :: 'Just in time' WMD by Charles Krauthammer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ekeus theorizes that Saddam decided years ago that keeping mustard gas and other poisons in barrels was unstable and corrosive, and also hard to conceal.
		WASHINGTON -- Rolf Ekeus, living proof that not all Swedish arms inspectors are fools, may have been right.
		Ekeus headed the U.N. inspection team that from 1991 to 1997 uncovered not just tons of chemical and biological weapons in Iraq, but a massive secret nuclear weapons program as well.
	www.townhall.com /columnists/charleskrauthammer/ck20031010.shtml (814 words)

	NTI: Board of Directors: Ambassador Rolf Ekeus
		Ambassador Ekeus serves as chairman of the board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
		In the summer of 2001, Ambassador Ekeus was appointed high commissioner on national minorities by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
		The second was to investigate the political and military handling of foreign submarine intrusions into Swedish territorial waters from 1980 until the present.
	www.nti.org /b_aboutnti/b1f.html (248 words)

	Ukraine Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		According to Lubkivskyi, Ekeus stressed that international financial organizations should make their own contributions to the efforts to solve the problems of the former deportees and assured Hryschenko that he will make efforts to mobilize international financial assistance to Ukraine.
		Ekeus highly appraised the level at which equal rights are granted to representatives of various nationalities in Ukraine.
		Hryschenko and Ekeus also discussed ways of increasing the role of the high commissioner in prevention of crises similar to the ones that have recently occurred in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's area of influence.
	www.ukrnow.com /content/view/599/2 (391 words)

	Annan Faces Growing Split Over Arms Inspector for Iraq
		France and China joined the Russians in objecting to the nomination of Rolf Ekeus, a Swedish disarmament expert who established the first inspection system in Iraq after the 1991 war in the Persian Gulf, as the executive chairman of a new commission created in December.
		Ekeus, making it unlikely that his supporters, including the United States, would try to force a vote soon.
		"No action is taken on the secretary general's recommendation on Rolf Ekeus, and everyone agreed that this remains the month of Africa," Mr.
	www.la.utexas.edu /chenry/usme/press00/011900iraq-un.html (874 words)

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