He said that the gunman seemed to act with coldness and that he clearly had a sophisticated knowledge of weapons.
The bodyguard, Abu Khalid, 36, served in the Jordanian Army, excels in tae kwon do and has extensive knowledge of weapons.
According to the arrangements under discussion in Washington and New York, United Nations inspectors could identify Iraqi scientists who are believed to have crucial knowledge of weapons programs.
Or did he simply wish to ask his old mentor whether physicists were morally justified in applying their knowledge to weapons?
Ms. Werner joined the ring without her husband's knowledge, stored weapons and hid a Chinese comrade who was on the run.
As Iraq's war with Iran proceeded, Mr. Hussein did not hesitate to give battlefield advice, despite his shaky knowledge of weapons and tactics.
The interior minister, Mr. Guéant, said it was worrying that the gunman seemed to act with impunity and coldness, and that he clearly had a sophisticated knowledge of weapons.
But winning that argument in the Security Council, American officials acknowledge, requires "proving a negative" -- that is, proving that Iraq has knowledge of weapons materials that it has not accounted for.
For starters, the US invasion of Iraq was justified, in part, on the basis of the false confession of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi who, under pain of torture, confessed to knowledge of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
And the United States government, which underwrites MAG's work at the depot where Mr. Belgrave and his crew work, has accumulated its own huge storehouse of knowledge on weapons systems worldwide.
