I read something from 2000 that gave me the creeps

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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/unscom/interviews/gellman.html


It basically Predicted 09/11 and The Iraq War.

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UNSCOM was an unprecedented organization, wasn't it?
barton gellmanIt is unprecedented--it was a multinational arms control panel, and it was based at the U.N. so it sounded sort of normal--but it was imposed on Iraq as a cease-fire condition for the Persian Gulf War. And therefore, it was disarming Iraq against its will. And that's the difference between UNSCOM and all the things that went before it, like the International Atomic Energy Agency, or any of these other international conventions.

They had to do a job that the Iraqis didn't want them to do.

Exactly. They didn't know that for sure at first, although everyone suspected it. But they were being asked to remove special weapons from Iraq that, as it turned out, Saddam Hussein considered to be at the very heart of his country's strategic interests, to hold on to.

The first head is Rolf Ekeus. He's Swedish. How soon do they figure out that this is going to be something different?

Almost right away. First of all, Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships. He understood what he was up against.

Almost at the beginning--UNSCOM was established in April of '91--September of '91 they had their first major incident with the Iraqis. This was the famous parking lot incident, in which David Kay was leading a joint I.A.E.A. and UNSCOM team, to look for nuclear materials.

What happened?

They went into a facility very quickly, unexpectedly. They were basing their search on intelligence they were receiving from the United States. They knew what they were looking for, which was documents relating to a nuclear weapons program, which at that time Iraq maintained did not exist. They found documents by something of a stroke of luck and also good intelligence.

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