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September 21st, 2007

Far from Iraq, Blix finds “WMD” in Canada

Posted by: Alister Doyle
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Hans Blix, the former UN chief arms inspector for Iraq who searched in vain for weapons of mass destruction before the U.S. invasion in 2003, say he now has reliable information about “WMD” in Canada. Hans Blix

Now retired, Blix was in Oslo this week for a seminar about nuclear issues and risks to the environment when he told delegates that he had once received an e-mail from a Canadian woman asking if he would object if she named her cat after him.

Puzzled, Blix said he wrote back jokingly that he didn’t mind if the cat didn’t either and would like to hear how the cat got on.

A while later he got the reply: “Blix is doing fine as a weapon of mouse destruction”.

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