17 Quotes by Charles Duelfer

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.