Onus on Iraq to show it has nothing to hide
Mohamed El-Baradei, who heads the UN search for banned weapons along with Hans Blix, said the onus was on Iraq, not the UN inspectors searching for weapons of mass destruction, to prove it had nothing to hide.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell's call for support for military action was rebuffed on Friday in a stormy UN Security Council meeting. Most council members lined up behind the foreign ministers of France, Russia and Germany, who called for more inspections after Mr Blix and Mr El-Baradei reported some progress. However, Mr El-Baradei, who heads the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, said council sentiment could swing toward Washington unless Baghdad convincingly demonstrates its eagerness to reveal all evidence of past and present nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programmes.
