Smoking gun, Mr. Blix?

It appears as if the drones that Colin Powell elaborated on in his argument before the UN Security Council found their way into the single-spaced 153 page document Mr. Blix delivered on Friday. What he neglected to mention in his briefing was the existence of these drones:

The British and US ambassadors plan to demand that Hans Blix reveals more details of a huge undeclared Iraqi unmanned aircraft, the discovery of which he failed to mention in his oral report to Security Council foreign ministers on Friday. Its existence was only disclosed in a declassified 173-page document circulated by the inspectors at the end of the meeting — an apparent attempt by Dr Blix to hide the revelation to avoid triggering a war.

“It’s incredible,” a senior diplomat from a swing voter on the council said. “This report is going to have a clearly defined impact on the people who are wavering. It’s a biggie.”