Gordon Carrera

So, I mean, we'll be hearing from him directly, but he still thinks that there was material which ends up getting hidden and he will say moved out of the country.

by Saddam's regime.

Fair to say that's not a universally accepted view within the intelligence community.

Yeah, I think we should come to that.

Because I think what it's based on is, as the war approaches, they see some trucks moving over the border into Syria from Iraq.

But that doesn't mean the trucks had WMD, because I think the idea is people are moving other stuff.

If you're a senior Iraqi official, you're probably moving your money and your possessions out over the border, aren't you?

So I think there is a suspicion about that and even some reporting.

But

Yeah.

So there's all this tension.

The UK has got a source inside Saddam's special security organization talking about how they're going to stymie the inspectors and keep them away from things.

But that's actually standard behavior because as we know, the special security organization

thinks the inspectors are spies gathering intelligence for war and they're trying to protect Saddam.

So that's the problem.

So by the time you get to the end of January, Tony Blair is in real trouble.

Because he'd been hoping that either there might be a coup to topple Saddam.

Sounds familiar from recent events in Iran, doesn't it?

Always easy.

Just count on the coup.