Mr. El Baradei is the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and head of the UN nuclear inspection team in Iraq. We have highlighted statements from Mr. El Baradei's editorial in Wall Street Journal [3.7.03, A10].

"For the past three months, a cadre of highly trained inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency has bee on a focused mission: to verify, through intrusive inspections,the existance or absence of a nuclear-weapons program in Iraq."

"These inspections have recently been characterized by some as a 'mission impossible' -- a task too challenging to warrant continued pursit. This, in my view, is a mischaracterization. I cannot speak for UNMOVIC -- the United Nations organization tasked with chemical, biological and missile inspections in Iraq. However, the facts on the nuclear side speak for themselves: After three months back in Baghdad, nuclear-weapons inspections are making marked progress."

CNN SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT: We have captured two critical frames from coverage provided by CNN (3.7.03), as El Baradei addressed the United Nations Security Council. In Frame A (top), the caption reads, "IAEA: No Evidence of Attempted Uranium Buy." In Frame B (bottom), the captions reads, "IAEA: Documents Saying Iraq Tried to Buy Uranium Faked."

SPECIAL: UN Inspectors Call for More Time [CNN, 3.7.03, (1.3MB QT Video)]

El Baradei (cont):
"In the past three months, they [inspectors] have conducted over 200 inspections at more than 140 locations, entering without prior notice into Iraqi industrial facilities, munition factories, military establishments, private residences and presidential palaces. They have followed up inspection leads provided by other states, confiscated nuclear-related Iraqi documents for further scrutiny, interviewed scientists and engineers known to have played a key role in Iraq's past nuclear-weapons program and lowered themselves by rope into abandoned underground-reactor chambers."

"Taking advantage of the 'signature' of radioactive materials, they have conducted radiation surveys over thousands of kilometers of Iraqi roads and collected samples of soil, air, water and vegetation and particulate matter from key locations in Iraq for laboratory analysis."

"In short, the nuclear inspectors in Iraq have been far from idle, and their efforts far from futile... While the task is by no means complete, the inspection results achieved to date are worthy of careful consideration..."

"A key facet of these inspections has been the degree of cooperation on the part of Iraq. Throughout the past three months, Iraqi authorities have provided access to all facilities without conditions and without delay and have made documents available in response to inspectors' requests."

"Nuclear weapons inspections in Iraq are making marked progress. To date, we have found no substantial evidence of the revival in Iraq of a nuclear-weapons program -- the most lethal of the weapons of mass destruction."

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