Disarming Iraq: moments of truth? -- Inspection: why, how and when? -- Out of the ice-box and into the frying pan -- Inspections, yes, but how? -- The December declaration -- To Baghdad and back -- Approaching the brink -- Search for a middle road: benchmarks? -- Deadlock -- Bashing Blix and ElBaradei -- Diplomacy on the brink: the breakdown -- After war: weapons of mass disappearance