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Rolf Ekéus
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Rolf Ekéus (born 1935) is a Swedish diplomat. From 1978 to 1983, he was a representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, and he has worked on various other disarmament committees and commissions.
Between 1991 and 1997 he was director of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq, the United Nations disarmament observers in Iraq after the Gulf War. In late July 2002 he reportedly said in the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper that during his time in this position he attempted to resist attempts by the United States to use the Commission to perform espionage. His successor as director was Richard Butler. Iraq suspended the inspections in 1998 after claiming that it was a cover for espionage.
Ekéus later became Sweden's ambassador to the United States and the chairman of the board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
In January 2000, Ekéus was nominated to head the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspections Commission (UNMOVIC), charged with investigating allegations that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. But Ekéus' name failed to receive the approval of the UN Security Council, due to the opposition of France, Russia and China, and so Hans Blix was appointed instead.
The Ambassador is currently High Commissioner on National Minorities at the OSCE, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, as well as on the board of directors for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI).
The transcript also shows "Rashid", most likely Dr. Germ (from wikipedia)
The al-Hakam germ warfare center, headed by the British-educated Iraqi biologist Dr. Rihab Rashid Taha, was blown up by UNSCOM in 1996. According to a 1999 report from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, the normally mild-mannered Taha exploded into violent rages whenever UNSCOM questioned her about al-Hakam, shouting, screaming and, on one occasion, smashing a chair, while insisting that al-Hakam was a chicken-feed plant. [4]
"There were a few things that were peculiar about this animal-feed production plant," Charles Duelfer, UNSCOM's deputy executive chairman, later told reporters, "beginning with the extensive air defenses surrounding it."
UPDATE
I am pretty sure this is the tape Bill Tierney released a few weeks ago. It is IV, but ABC already reviewed it.
UPDATE: So is 7379. This is the much talked about plasma discussion from the Tierney tapes.
Background, Tierney was a weapons inspector and later hired as a contractor to translate these tapes. He released them to the public a few weeks ago. ABC news did a translation and had a different finding than Bill Tierney on this particular tape. Tierney claims it shows that the plasma experiments were for military applications. ABC news concluded the plasma discussion was more of an industry and academic discussion. So now we have a major disagreement and a third source. Many of the new translations have the translator initials TC. I noticed when writing a piece concerning the al-Qaeda documents (released earlier on the West Point CTC site) and also released on the FMSO yesterday, that TC translated much of those. I am assuming it is the same TC. I thought he did a very good job on the al-Qaeda documents and I would tend to take his translation on these Tierney tapes with high regard. So far, it appears that ABC had the better translation and that the plasma discussion is not military in nature. Developing..
UPDATE!!! Now we are talking....
ISCG-2003-M0007379
bottom page 6.
MALE 2: It got cold in here.
MALE 6: Plasma systems in general are made of several things. They're usually simple if it's for research purposes. A simple and inexpensive system and can be made in any simple factory. We can do a simple research, and the system can change from a research system, if the research was good, and the requirements are available, turn into... [audio blank 31:28 to 31:45]
Male 2: they can let us know if they disagree, and if they do agree, which is better, they can also come to us so we can reach a clear plan. Thank you my brothers from the Military Industry for the valuable information that you provided, and at the same time we got to see you and get to know you.
BINGO!!!
Note this is military research people talking about the transfer of technology to? Well since it is the military, clearly the conversation went to a military application of plasma.
A few other strange things. There are no other annotated blank spots on this translation. The blank spot occurs right when the military scientist speaker says where the application will be transferred to. Oddly enough, the "It got cold in here" comment is very out of place for the rest of this transcript. There is no other single out of place comment. When you are in a military briefing and the information about to come out is released, you say, "this is classified" so that anyone who doesn't have the right clearance can leave. "It got cold in here" sounds like a warning that a classified subject was approaching so shut off the mike. I know this sounds crazy, but it is too much of a coincidence. An out of place comment, followed by a mention of transfer of plasma technology, that is cut off in mid statement, followed by a thank you to the military scientists. This is 99.9% proof that Tierney was right and they were perfoming plasma experiment to go into weapons testing, most likely nuclear. The rest of the conversation is kept "in the clear" but applies to that program.
Now I am convinced that Bill Tierney was accurate.
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