Charles Duelfer Quotations

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

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

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.

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.

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.

He is of course of great interest because if one person knows the real story it's him,

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

We're coming out of a crisis. We're trying to keep the temperature down as much as possible.

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.

What they do is support the conclusion the regime had the intention of building or rebuilding weapons of mass destruction.

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.

Other people on the team had other obligations, so logistically it would have been difficult to keep them there much longer.

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.

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.

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.

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