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Iraq Survey Group to Continue Work
The coalition unit searching for evidence of Iraq’s alleged prewar WMD efforts will continue its work under the new Iraqi government, a CIA spokesman said yesterday. To date, the 1,400-member Iraq Survey Group has found no large-scale stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction (see GSN, June 25). Chief U.S. weapons inspector Charles Duelfer, who heads the unit, is scheduled to testify before the U.S. Congress next month on the progress of the WMD search, according to the New York Sun (Eli Lake, New York Sun, June 29). Meanwhile, International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed ElBaradei said yesterday that there was little chance that agency inspectors would soon return to Iraq due, in part, to continuing security concerns. The agency is ready to discuss with the new Iraqi government and the U.N. Security Council the return of agency inspectors to Iraq, ElBaradei said. He added that he would like to see the agency complete its efforts to verify prewar Iraq’s past nuclear efforts and implement a monitoring and verification system in Iraq, with the goal of returning to “normal safeguards.” Before IAEA inspectors could return to Iraq, though, the agency “would obviously have to weigh the security situation,” ElBaradei said. “We work sometimes under a certain degree of risk. It has to be managed risk. … I think right now the current situation is a major impediment,” he said (Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!News, April 28).
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