4.4 | The
search for WMD
was
inevitable with the release of HVDs, there was no reason to think
that a separation
of its
component parts was imminent.
Mr Tenet
announced his resignation as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI)
on 3 June.443
Mr McLaughlin
was appointed Acting Director.
Mr Tenet
stepped down formally on 11 July.444
In his
memoir, Mr Duelfer wrote:
“McLaughlin
recognized my position and stepped in to make sure I was not
left
dangling.
He would provide, as he had been all along, direct personal
attention to the
ISG on an
almost daily basis”.445
793.
On
6 June, the Security Council adopted resolution 1546 (2004)
(see Section 9.2).
The
resolution welcomed the beginning of a new phase in Iraq’s
transition to a
democratically
elected government, and looked forward to the end of the
Occupation
794.
In operative
paragraph (OP) 21, the Security Council decided that the
prohibition
on the sale
and supply of arms to Iraq would “not apply to arms or related
material
required by
the Government of Iraq or the multinational force to serve the
purposes of
this
resolution”.
795.
In OP22, the
Council noted that OP21 did not affect material prohibited by
or
the
obligations in paragraphs 8 and 12 of resolution 687 (1991) and
paragraph 3(f)
of
resolution 707 (1991). It also reaffirmed “its intention to revisit
the mandates” of
UNMOVIC and
the IAEA.
796.
A letter from
Secretary Powell to the President of the Security Council
was
annexed to
the resolution. Secretary Powell confirmed that:
“… the MNF
stands ready to continue to undertake a broad range of
tasks
to
contribute to the maintenance of security and to ensure force
protection.
These include
… the continued search for and securing of weapons
that
threaten Iraq’s
security.”
797.
On
24 June, Mr Douglas Feith, US Under Secretary of Defense
for Policy, informed
Mr Simon
Webb, MOD Policy Director, of the post-30 June arrangements
for the ISG.447
Resolution
1546 envisaged that the MNF-I would have the task of searching for
and
443
The New
York Times,
3 June 2004, ‘Time is
Right to Move On’, CIA Director Tells Employees.
444
CIA News
& Information, 8 July 2004, CIA
Director Honored at Farewell Ceremony.
445
Duelfer
C. Hide and
Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq. Public
Affairs, 2009.
446
UN Security
Council resolution 1546 (2004).
447
Minute
Thornton to Policy Director, 24 June 2004, ‘Conversation with
Doug Feith about the future of
the ISG’.
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