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War not justified: Blix

New York Jan. 31. The chief U.N. arms inspector, Hans Blix, challenged a series of accusations Washington has lobbed at Iraq, saying inspection teams had found nothing to back them up, in an interview published today.

Mr. Blix told The New York Times that the progress report he delivered to the U.N. Security Council on Monday in which he determined that Iraq was defying international demands to disarm did not justify going to war. But he acknowledged that "diplomacy needs to be backed by force sometimes, and inspections need to be backed by pressure".

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