Get to know your new WMD inspector -Charles Duelfer

[underpants]

http://www.csis.org/experts/4duelfer.htm


He holds a B.A. from the University of Connecticut and a M.Sc. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Before joining the Department of State, Mr. Duelfer worked at the White House Office of Management and Budget (1977-1983), where he was responsible for Department of Defense strategic nuclear forces and space programs.

From 1990 to 1992, Mr. Duelfer was in charge of defense trade matters as the director of the Center for Defense Trade and deputy to the assistant secretary of state for politico-military affairs. In this capacity he had responsibility for arms transfers, munitions licensing, and conventional arms control.

Charles Duelfer is currently a visiting resident scholar at the CSIS. He served as the deputy executive chairman of the UN Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM) from 1993 until its termination in 2000.

About CSIS
http://csis.org/about/index.htm
CSIS Leadership
http://csis.org/about/index.htm

CNN interview 1998
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1998/iraq/9803/transcripts/duelfer.index.html

Interview on UN resolution 1511 (blueprint for political future of Iraq)
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2003/s969378.htm

ELIZABETH JACKSON: Now, it's been heralded as a diplomatic victory for America. I wonder, will it stem the political haemorrhaging, do you think, that George Bush has been experiencing at home?

CHARLES DUELFER: Well, it's more likely to stem some haemorrhaging in, in the international community on the part of the Bush administration, where he has not been well received since he made, uh, closely a unilateral decision to go to war back last Spring. I think his efforts to work within United Nations over the past couple of months are paying some dividends.

In the domestic scene, here in Washington, uh, the heat in his cauldron is largely driven by upcoming political elections, the Presidential elections, and the Democratic Party is focussing on Iraq as a potential vulnerability. It's seeing it as something where the United States took off on its own and did something which is causing some problems and with no end in sight. You know there are Americans dying everyday.

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[leesa]

1. Well, I think he is eminently qualified since he's been responsible

for arms transfers in the past. He should be able to move those WMDs into Iraq with ease! Good choice!

[underpants]

2. He has been very critical of the WMD story in the past

He was on BBC last night and they showed him saying that he doubts any will be found. D'uh!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

3. leesa ......my 1st thought too