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Duelfer Report Omitted Long-Term U.N. Plans for Monitoring Iraq, U.N. Officials Say
The Iraq Survey Group report, which said that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein intended to resume WMD efforts once U.N. sanctions were lifted, failed to note that the U.N. Security Council had planned to maintain long-running controls to prevent such weapons development, the Associated Press reported yesterday (see GSN, Oct. 15). “It’s been a little disturbing,” said chief U.N. weapons inspector Demetrius Perricos. “All the arguments say that when sanctions ended, Saddam Hussein would have had a free hand. By the council’s own resolutions that wasn’t so.” The report by ISG chief Charles Duelfer did not include U.N. plans to implement an Ongoing Monitoring and Verification (OMV) program in Iraq, which would have been in place at hundreds of dual-use and former WMD-related Iraqi sites, according to AP. The program had been envisioned at about a $70 million per year effort involving about 350 people, AP reported. Inspectors would have used sensors, sampling devices, remote video systems, inspections and interviews to keep track of the facilities. Aerial surveillance, vehicle inspections and imports monitoring would also have been included in the verification program, according to AP. The program became moot following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, AP reported. The CIA and Duelfer did not comment on why the OMV program was not included in the Iraq Survey Group report. Former U.S. chief weapons inspector in Iraq David Kay said the OMV program was “discounted” and left out of Duelfer’s report because it was believed that “the Iraqis over time would find out how to manipulate the cameras, sampling methods, occasional visits” (Charles Hanley, Associated Press/Boston Herald, Oct. 24).
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