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To: ConservativeLawyer
Kay's Interim Report to Congress

Here's just a brief excerpt:

What have we found and what have we not found in the first 3 months of our work?

We have discovered dozens of WMD-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations during the inspections that began in late 2002. The discovery of these deliberate concealment efforts have come about both through the admissions of Iraqi scientists and officials concerning information they deliberately withheld and through physical evidence of equipment and activities that ISG has discovered that should have been declared to the UN. Let me just give you a few examples of these concealment efforts, some of which I will elaborate on later:

A clandestine network of laboratories and safehouses within the Iraqi Intelligence Service that contained equipment subject to UN monitoring and suitable for continuing CBW research.

A prison laboratory complex, possibly used in human testing of BW agents, that Iraqi officials working to prepare for UN inspections were explicitly ordered not to declare to the UN.

Reference strains of biological organisms concealed in a scientist's home, one of which can be used to produce biological weapons...

Read the entire report. It's fascinating, and really makes many of the "no WMDs" arguments laughable. I did notice one thing I'd forgotten over the months. In his Oct 03 report, Kay said this:

Any actual WMD weapons or material is likely to be small in relation to the total conventional armaments footprint and difficult to near impossible to identify with normal search procedures. It is important to keep in mind that even the bulkiest materials we are searching for, in the quantities we would expect to find, can be concealed in spaces not much larger than a two car garage;

In other words, we do not expect to find any large stockpiles of WMDs. But a few months later it's suddenly a huge issue. LOL

103 posted on 01/29/2004 7:35:09 AM PST by Coop (God bless our troops!)
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To: Coop
even the bulkiest materials we are searching for, in the quantities we would expect to find, can be concealed in spaces not much larger than a two car garage

Thanks for the Kay report excerpts.
116 posted on 01/29/2004 7:39:30 AM PST by plain talk
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To: Coop
Thanks for the info.
128 posted on 01/29/2004 7:45:50 AM PST by ConservativeLawyer (God Bless our Troops!)
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To: Coop
BUMP to your #103.
197 posted on 01/29/2004 8:51:45 AM PST by BureaucratusMaximus (If we aren't going to be a Constitutional Republic...lets be the best empire we can be.)
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