In one he shoots and in the other, he breathes a sigh of relief when his quarry puts down a weapon.
The British, meanwhile, flew samples first smuggled out to Turkey to a defense facility in England called Porton Down, a chemical weapons research center established during World War I.
The two officials became the highest-profile political casualties yet in the fallout from a disputed effort to take down a weapons-smuggling ring based in Arizona and linked to Mexican drug cartels.
Despite their issues, the two bond while on a mission to track down a powerful weapon: a magic wand that everyone's after.
Mr. Alvarez's estimate indicates that enough plutonium is buried at Hanford to create 1,800 Nagasaki-size bombs, he said, but he played down any possibility of a weapons threat.
Some Bush officials believe that he was not aggressive enough in hunting down evidence of a weapons program in Iraq in the months before the war.
Mr. Corzine complimented Mr. Franks for the measures he supported, but said that as a state lawmaker, Mr. Franks had tried to "strip down" a 1990 assault weapons ban, and that the 1994 ban Mr. Franks voted for in Congress "allows people to own Uzis".
Military strikes, they argue, would at least slow down the development of a weapon and could topple the clerical regime.
E7 said Rodney's movements and body language, including ducking down and coming back up again, made him believe Rodney had ducked down to grab a weapon from the car floor.
The Egyptian mediators had tried to work on getting the blockade of Gaza eased without asking Hamas to lay down its weapons, a key Israeli demand.
He told the inquiry he believed Rodney had ducked down to grab a weapon.
