Saddam and WMDs 

Saddam and WMDs

In the debate from January 2003, linked earlier,
John Mueller says:

"Much of [Saddam's] obstruction of arms inspectors seems to arise from his fear that agents among them will be used fatally to triangulate his whereabouts -- a suspicion that press reports suggest was not exaggerated."

This is a helpful suggestion on the mystery of why, if Saddam really had no WMDs, he didn't simply reveal this fact to the world, or to UN inspectors. Mueller reminds us that Saddam was on the run, almost constantly, in the last years of his regime--apparently never spending more than one night in one place. Fearful of everyone, he suspected that any group of visiting experts would be infiltrated by his enemies--and he may have had good reason to think so.