Charles Duelfer
Charles Duelfer
Charles A. Duelfer is Chairman of Omnis, Inc., a consulting firm in aerospace, defense, intelligence, training, and finance. He is a regular commentator in the media on intelligence and foreign policy and is the author of "Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq."...
against found hands means supposed
We have found one. We don't know if that means there are more, ... We don't know if that means they are making their way into hands of those who would use them against the coalition. But certainly, it is important, because there were not supposed to be any.
difficult people team
Other people on the team had other obligations, so logistically it would have been difficult to keep them there much longer.
al bit connection directed given hussein saddam somewhat surprised
Given that kind of background, I would be a little bit surprised if it was Saddam Hussein who directed this, ... But, on the other hand, I would also be somewhat surprised if there were no connection at all between Saddam and al Qaeda.
business buying certainly
Certainly Iraq, even before oil-for-food and sanctions, conducted business by buying influence.
building conclusion intention mass rebuilding regime support weapons
What they do is support the conclusion the regime had the intention of building or rebuilding weapons of mass destruction.
building conclusion couple intention last mass rebuilding regime support weapons
What they do is support the conclusion in the report, which we made in the last couple of years, that the regime had the intention of building and rebuilding weapons of mass destruction, when circumstances permitted.
coming home inspection intended mean office period returning send time week
It's the end of a week of inspections that had been planned, and (Ritter) will be returning back to his home office in New York, ... It is not intended to send a signal. It is not intended to mean anything other than the period of time of this inspection is over and he is coming home.
evidence found iraq sought uranium
not found evidence to show that Iraq sought uranium from abroad.
bond chemical destroyed facility james night weird
We destroyed a lot of chemical weapons. They had a facility that was going night and day, like some weird James Bond movie.
coming trying
We're coming out of a crisis. We're trying to keep the temperature down as much as possible.
blow kids themselves
Where do all these kids who want to blow themselves up come from?
basic cost data huge include insisted iraq reasonable report since tragedy
I also have insisted that the report include as much basic data as reasonable and that it be unclassified, since the tragedy that has been Iraq has exacted such a huge cost for so many for so long.
course great interest knows
He is of course of great interest because if one person knows the real story it's him,
both capital connect desire either evidence fuels mass previous quite regime respect strong themselves weapons
There is evidence they have a lot of desire to connect themselves with either or both the intellectual capital of the previous regime with respect to weapons of mass destruction and quite conceivably materials, ... That is a very strong concern, and it's something that fuels a lot our investigation at the moment.