A final bit from the Trib that really does make you wonder what they're doing at the UN. The UN inspectors in Iraq appear to have bungled their first few interviews of Iraqi scientists because they did not take the time to come up with a standard protocol, or even to seriously consider the effects of their interview procedures.

In their first attempted private interview, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear watchdog, appeared unannounced to question a materials engineer professor at the University of Technology. Sabah Abdulnoor, a longtime member of Iraq's nuclear team in the 1980s, refused to talk until an Iraqi official was provided as a witness.



In an attempt to privately interview Mojbal, inspectors inexplicably asked the Iraqi government to play a prominent role.



They asked the government to contact the scientist. Inspectors then agreed that Mojbal could have an Iraqi official at his side. Later, when Mojbal balked at appearing at the inspectors' headquarters, inspectors agreed to meet him at the government-run Al Rasheed Hotel, which is known to be monitored.



Ueki, the UN spokesman, could not explain the difference in interview procedures and offered no insight into a possible strategy by the IAEA inspectors.



He said the inspectors asked the Iraqi government to contact Mojbal, whom they had seen a week earlier at his workplace, because it was "more convenient."

Mojbal, the second scientist interviewed, has now gone on Iraqi state television, warning his colleagues to be sure they have Iraqi government officials present at their interviews to bear witness to UN questioning. Well done, UN, well done.

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