The United Nations Special Commission ( UNSCOM ) was headed by Rolf Ekéus and later Richard Butler.

Despite Ekéus ' belief that Iraq was nearly certifiable as being free of such weapons, U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced that United Nations sanctions would not be lifted until such time as Hussein was no longer in power.

Jordan granted asylum to the Kamels, and there they began to cooperate with UNSCOM and its director Rolf Ekéus, the United States ' CIA and the British MI6.

In 1997 Butler was appointed Chairman of the United Nations Special Commission ( UNSCOM ), the UN weapons inspection organisation in Iraq, in succession to Rolf Ekéus.

Ekéus was High Commissioner on National Minorities at the OSCE from 2001 till 2007, as well as on the board of directors for the Nuclear Threat Initiative ( NTI ).

Since 2005, Ekéus has been a Commissioner of the International Commission on Missing Persons ( ICMP ).

Carl Rolf Ekéus ( born 7 July 1935 in Kristinehamn, Sweden ) is a Swedish diplomat.

Journalist Andrew Cockburn reported in Britain's The First Post that Ekéus told him how former U. S. President Bill Clinton attempted to prevent Saddam Hussein's Iraq from being certified as free of weapons of mass destruction.

According to the journalist Christopher Hitchens, Ekéus " told me that he'd been offered by Tariq Aziz in person, to his face, a bribe of a million and a half dollars to change his inspection report.

In January 2000, Ekéus was nominated to head the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspections Commission ( UNMOVIC ), charged with investigating allegations that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.

But Ekéus ' name failed to receive the approval of the UN Security Council, due to the opposition of France, Russia and China, and so Hans Blix was appointed instead.

Kofi Annan originally recommended Rolf Ekéus, who worked with UNSCOM in the past, but both Russia and France vetoed his appointment.

Between 1991 and 1997 its director was Rolf Ekéus ; from 1997 to 1999 its director was Richard Butler.

Although Ekéus has said that he resisted attempts at such espionage, many allegations have since been made against the agency commission under Butler, charges which Butler has denied.

* UNSCOM personnel: Rolf Ekéus, Richard Butler ( diplomat ), Charles A. Duelfer, Scott Ritter, Corinne Heraud, Alexander Coker

* Swedish diplomat Rolf Ekéus is appointed as the Executive Chairman of UNSCOM.

* Rolf Ekéus, Executive Chairman of UNSCOM, arranges for a loan to UNSCOM of an US Lockheed U-2 spy plane for taking surveillance photos of Iraq.

* Rolf Ekéus negotiates with Iraq, gaining access for UNSCOM to inspect " sensitive " sites.

he became Otto Klemperer's personal assistant at the Cologne Opera, and a year later was promoted to the position of regular conductor.

Two years later he became director of the Frankfurt Opera, where he remained until he lost this position in 1933 through the rise of the Hitler regime.

In short order, the general history became his most popular work and has remained, aside from his later Social history, the work most widely favored by the public.

He owned a logging equipment business here from 1923 to 1928, and later became Northwest district manager for Macwhyte Co..

The Latin author Apuleius was born in Madaurus ( Mdaourouch ), in what later became Algeria.

The meaning of the epithet " Lyceus " later became associated Apollo's mother Leto, who was the patron goddes of Lycia ( Λυκία ) and who was identified with the wolf ( λύκος ), earning him the epithets Lycegenes ( ; Λυκηγενής, Lukēgenēs, literally " born of a wolf " or " born of Lycia ") and Lycoctonus ( ; Λυκοκτόνος, Lukoktonos, from λύκος, " wolf ", and κτείνειν, " to kill ").

This island later became sacred to Apollo.

They diversified and became dominant during the Carboniferous and Permian periods, but were later displaced by reptiles and other vertebrates.

After the end of the Greek-Persian wars the cities on the coasts became part of the Delian League, which was, however, later dissolved.

However, as has been pointed out by Alexis Manaster Ramer and Paul Sidwell ( 1997 ), Strahlenberg actually opposed the idea of a closer relationship between the languages which later became known as " Altaic "..

After the mid-1960s, he became much less prolific, but his later work — including his final two epics, Kagemusha ( 1980 ) and Ran ( 1985 )— continued to win awards, including the Palme d ' Or for Kagemusha, though more often abroad than in Japan.

( which later became the major studio, Toho ), advertised for assistant directors.

This later became known as the plum pudding model.

Poirot later became smitten with the woman and allowed her to escape justice.

Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Sketch magazine in 1926, " The Tuesday Night Club ", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems ( 1932 ).

* 70 – Jewish revolts against the Romans caused the Roman General Titus, later who became Caesar, to besiege the city.

In this later period, the Pueblo II became more self-contained, decreasing trade and interaction with more distant communities.

Aphrodite also became instrumental in the Eros and Psyche legend, and later was both Adonis ' lover and his surrogate mother.

For example, paintings glorified aristocracy in the early 17th century when leadership was needed to nationalize small political groupings, but later as leadership became oppressive, satirization increased and subjects were less concerned with leaders and more with more common plights of mankind.

As bishop, he immediately adopted an ascetic lifestyle, apportioned his money to the poor, donating all of his land, making only provision for his sister Marcellina ( who later became a nun ), and committed the care of his family to his brother.

In Chapter 42 we read of the Hermunduri, a tribe certainly located in the region that later became Thuringia.

He persuaded them, along with a group of friends, to purchase a controlling interest in the mines, which later became known as the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company based in Calumet, Michigan.

In later traditions, one became an ensi by marrying the goddess Inanna, legitimising the rulership through divine consent.

The Lesbian or Aeolic school of poetry " reached in the songs of Sappho and Alcaeus that high point of brilliancy to which it never after-wards approached " and it was assumed by later Greek critics and during the early centuries of the Christian era that the two poets were in fact lovers, a theme which became a favourite subject in art ( as in the urn pictured above ).

The 1830 – 1850 period later became known as the era of Jacksonian democracy.