HANS BLIX, the former head of the UN’s WMD inspectorate, told an Oireachtas committee yesterday that efforts at nuclear disarmament had faced serious setbacks in the past decade.

Ireland has an excellent track record in the global effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons, former UN chief weapons inspector Dr Hans Blix said tonight.

The man who led the UN's hunt for Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction is due to give an address to the Oireachtas foreign affairs committee in Dublin today.

FORMER United Nations chief weapons inspector Hans Blix will appear before an Oireachtas committee in September to discuss ways of combating the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

The former UN chief weapons inspector said Iran will be able to produce a nuclear bomb within five years if it is allowed to enrich uranium on an industrial scale.

FORMER chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix has accused Washington of not taking “the common bargain” of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty as seriously as it once did.

Britain and the US might have been able to avert much of the international discord over the Iraq war if they had planned to fight it in the autumn of 2003 instead of the spring, Britain’s former ambassador to Washington said today.

Former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said today that a shell containing sarin nerve gas used in an attack in Iraq was probably a stray weapon that could have been dated from the first Gulf War.

Former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix says that President George Bush and Tony Blair have lost credibility and the world is not safer now that Saddam Hussein is out of power.

Former United Nations chief weapons inspector Hans Blix has likened the run-up to the war in Iraq to a witch hunt.

THE world is overestimating the dangers of global terrorism, especially when compared with environmental risks, former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said yesterday.

Former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix has claimed that the Iraq war was illegal.

TONY Blair was last night under mounting pressure to reveal if Clare Short's United Nations bugging claims were true after fresh revelations of spying.

The justification for last year’s war in Iraq “was without foundation“, the former head of the United Nations weapons inspection team in the country said tonight.

THE 45-minute Iraq weapons claim was deliberately used to "dramatise" the Iraqi arms dossier, former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said yesterday.

The 45-minute claim was deliberately used to "dramatise" the Iraqi arms dossier, former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said today.

Former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said today that it is becoming ”increasingly clear” that Saddam Hussein’s regime did not have any illegal weapons of mass destruction.

FORMER UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix accused the US and Britain yesterday of “over-interpreting” information about Saddam Hussein’s alleged weapons of mass destruction.

FORMER UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix believes that Iraq destroyed most of its weapons of mass destruction 10 years ago, but kept up the appearance that it had them to deter a military attack.

Former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix believes that Iraq destroyed most of its weapons of mass destruction 10 years ago.

With unusual candour, former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix today denounced the US-led war on Iraq as a violation of international law, and questioned Washington’s motives for the invasion.

The US government stood accused today of misrepresenting intelligence information to justify the war with Iraq.

Chief UN inspector Hans Blix criticised the US for insisting so vehemently that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction and not producing the evidence.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has named a veteran arms expert as the acting chief weapons inspector to replace Hans Blix, who oversaw a fruitless search for illicit Iraqi weapons and is retiring.

UN Chief Weapons Inspector Dr Hans Blix yesterday hit out at the “bastards” in Washington, who he claims ran a smear campaign against him.

Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix’s attack on the intelligence given to him by the United States and Britain may betray some frustration about the premature ending of the inspectors’ work in Iraq.

CHIEF UN inspector Hans Blix has told the Security Council that Saddam Hussein’s regime might have hidden weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, or destroyed them ahead of the US invasion.

Chief UN inspector Hans Blix told the Security Council today that Saddam Hussein’s regime might have hidden weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, or destroyed them ahead of the US invasion.

UN inspectors had many questions and leads to pursue on chemical and biological weapons in Iraq when their searches were suspended just before the US-led invasion, chief inspector Hans Blix said in a new report today.

US officials sought to discredit the United Nations’ weapons inspectors in the period ahead of the outbreak of war against Iraq, chief investigator Dr Hans Blix claimed yesterday.

US officials sought to discredit the United Nations’ weapons inspectors in the period ahead of the outbreak of war against Iraq, chief investigator Dr Hans Blix claimed today.

Tony Blair was ready to quit his job as Prime Minister of Britain if he had lost MPs' support over war with Iraq, it was revealed today.

IS Tánaiste Mary Harney’s idea of morality to enable the Anglo-Americans to fuel their armed jets at Shannon enabling Bush’s ‘any Arab will do’ mode of justice for what happened September 11, 2001?

THE United Nations has asked for a fresh report from its chief weapons inspector Hans Blix as it considers sending teams back to Iraq.

The UN Security Council has asked chief weapons inspector Hans Blix to brief members next week as the US fielded its own disarmament teams inside Iraq and Secretary-General Kofi Annan pressed for UN experts to return as quickly as possible.

AS thousands of Iraqis took to the streets to celebrate the fall of Saddam Hussein, the United States was already sabre rattling in the next phase of its war on so-called rogue nations.

BRITISH troops have discovered more than 100 bio-chemical protection suits in a command post abandoned by Iraqi troops, it was reported yesterday.

Chief United Nations weapons inspector Hans Blix today expressed his disappointment at the decision to go to war when his teams had not completed their work of eliminating Iraq’s illicit weapons programmes.

Facing imminent war, the world’s staunchest opponents of invading Iraq told the UN Security Council there was no proof Saddam Hussein posed a threat to any country.

The Chief weapons inspector has told the United Nations Security Council he is saddened that his staff have been forced to pull out of Iraq.

TODAY is the “moment of truth” for Saddam Hussein and the United Nations, George Bush and Tony Blair warned last night.

Tony Blair, George Bush and Jose Maria Aznar have set the United Nations and Saddam Hussein a final deadline.

Iraq said most of the helicopters used by United Nations weapons inspectors were flown out to Syria today en route to Cyprus after a Western insurance company suspended its cover for the aircraft.