That phraseology appeared to be code for interviewing Iraqi scientists outside of Iraq's territory.
I have interviewed scientists and artists, politicians and attorneys and there's a common voice.
"We also would like to see active cooperation in freely interviewing Iraqi scientists."
Another important task for the inspectors will be to interview Iraqi scientists and search for defectors.
And anyhow, I don't like to interview scientists.
They interviewed German scientists and gathered a wide array of technical information.
The agency wants to interview scientists who worked there and determine whether they were conducting nuclear research.
With the advent of the tape recorder, he interviewed aging scientists about their lives, work and discoveries.
The agency would like to interview scientists who worked there.
The key, the aide said, was interviewing scientists in the environment of a newly liberated Iraq, "where they might say something."