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The French rockets, officers said, were quite new, and likely purchased after the arms embargo was in place.

"They were in pristine condition," said one military officer who inspected the rocket tubes and assembly.

Hmmm. This is irrefutable evidence that Chirac ordered the missile strike.

What it says to me is terrorists used weapons produced by two of the top arms producers in the world. Every time a person fires an AK at an American soldier, Putin is at fault, no?

Isn't the French Govt. directly in control of their weapons sales? If these are new missles from France it shows the French had something to hide, like violations of UN mandates!

It all ties into this statement by Dr. Kay in his recent interview on Fox News, regarding his search and findings in Iraq. I keep trying to DRIVE this message home to people, and sadly it is becoming MORE and more relevant. Could we be talking WEAPONS here, like the missles used in today's attacks? Frankly, I think Dr. Kay is talking about a few things.

But the real question is what companies, and what countries? Read on:

SNOW: You also have reports of a number of nations engaged in illegal trade or dual-use technology trade with Iraq. Why won't you tell us who those countries are?

KAY: Because we're continuing to investigate to find the exact details and to be sure that we have absolute accuracy. Also, because we suspect that these same companies have been engaged with other proliferant regimes, so we want to get to the bottom of this.

And let me say, it's not just dual-use. The equipment that we're after and the information we have relates to things that were clearly illegal to sell to Iraq. This is illegal procurement. It's not something that could have other uses. They shouldn't have had it.

SNOW: Were any American companies involved?

KAY: Not that we've discovered to date."