Charles Duelfer Quotations

Where do all these kids who want to blow themselves up come from?

I'm honored that director Tenet has asked me to tackle this challenging assignment. I'm approaching it with an open mind and am absolutely committed to following the evidence wherever it takes us.

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.

Iraq's known nuclear scientists are gravitating to the country's five nuclear research sites. That doesn't appear to be coincidental.

Certainly Iraq, even before oil-for-food and sanctions, conducted business by buying influence.

We destroyed a lot of chemical weapons. They had a facility that was going night and day, like some weird James Bond movie.

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.

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.

not found evidence to show that Iraq sought uranium from abroad.

This is a very interesting element of the British presentation. It was on the basis of that kind of information we had from defectors as far back as 1997 that we conducted some of our most controversial inspections.