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Saddam's WMD Have Been Found
Insight Magazine ^ | 26 April 2004 | Kenneth R. Timmerman

Posted on 04/26/2004 7:32:46 AM PDT by Lando Lincoln

New evidence out of Iraq suggests that the U.S. effort to track down Saddam Hussein's missing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is having better success than is being reported. Key assertions by the intelligence community that were widely judged in the media and by critics of President George W. Bush as having been false are turning out to have been true after all. But this stunning news has received little attention from the major media, and the president's critics continue to insist that "no weapons" have been found.

In virtually every case - chemical, biological, nuclear and ballistic missiles - the United States has found the weapons and the programs that the Iraqi dictator successfully concealed for 12 years from U.N. weapons inspectors.

The Iraq Survey Group (ISG), whose intelligence analysts are managed by Charles Duelfer, a former State Department official and deputy chief of the U.N.-led arms-inspection teams, has found "hundreds of cases of activities that were prohibited" under U.N. Security Council resolutions, a senior administration official tells Insight. "There is a long list of charges made by the U.S. that have been confirmed, but none of this seems to mean anything because the weapons that were unaccounted for by the United Nations remain unaccounted for."

Both Duelfer and his predecessor, David Kay, reported to Congress that the evidence they had found on the ground in Iraq showed Saddam's regime was in "material violation" of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441, the last of 17 resolutions that promised "serious consequences" if Iraq did not make a complete disclosure of its weapons programs and dismantle them in a verifiable manner. The United States cited Iraq's refusal to comply with these demands as one justification for going to war.

Both Duelfer and Kay found that Iraq had "a clandestine network of laboratories and safe houses with equipment that was suitable to continuing its prohibited chemical- and biological-weapons [BW] programs," the official said. "They found a prison laboratory where we suspect they tested biological weapons on human subjects." They found equipment for "uranium-enrichment centrifuges" whose only plausible use was as part of a clandestine nuclear-weapons program. In all these cases, "Iraqi scientists had been told before the war not to declare their activities to the U.N. inspectors," the official said.

But while the president's critics and the media might plausibly hide behind ambiguity and a lack of sensational-

looking finds for not reporting some discoveries, in the case of Saddam's ballistic-missile programs they have no excuse for their silence. "Where were the missiles? We found them," another senior administration official told Insight.

"Saddam Hussein's prohibited missile programs are as close to a slam dunk as you will ever find for violating United Nations resolutions," the first official said. Both senior administration officials spoke to Insight on condition that neither their name nor their agency be identified, but their accounts of what the United States has found in Iraq coincided in every major area.

When former weapons inspector Kay reported to Congress in January that the United States had found "no stockpiles" of forbidden weapons in Iraq, his conclusions made front-page news. But when he detailed what the ISG had found in testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence last October, few took notice. Among Kay's revelations, which officials tell Insight have been amplified in subsequent inspections in recent weeks:



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afterbash; catholiclist; iraq; iraqweapons; kennethrtimmerman; kennethtimmerman; lol; wmd
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Lando
1 posted on 04/26/2004 7:32:56 AM PDT by Lando Lincoln
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I firmly believe that if the "Oil for Food" scandal is investigated to its complete conclusion, it will reveal that the UN weapons inspections were also compromised by payoffs.

Lando

2 posted on 04/26/2004 7:36:02 AM PDT by Lando Lincoln (GWB in 2004)
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I firmly believe that if the "Oil for Food" scandal is investigated to its complete conclusion, it will reveal that the UN weapons inspections were also compromised by payoffs.

Lando

3 posted on 04/26/2004 7:36:07 AM PDT by Lando Lincoln (GWB in 2004)
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To: Lando Lincoln
Bump!
4 posted on 04/26/2004 7:36:50 AM PDT by republicanwizard
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To: Lando Lincoln
I, like the majority of Americans have never doubted that Saddam had WMDs, but Bush needs to come out and give an address about just what has been discovered.

I suspect Bush will be doing this shortly before the Democrat Convention.
5 posted on 04/26/2004 7:38:29 AM PDT by counterpunch (<-CLICK HERE for my CARTOONS)
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To: Lando Lincoln
But this stunning news has received little attention from the major media

What a surprise.

6 posted on 04/26/2004 7:39:25 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Lando Lincoln
BUMP!
7 posted on 04/26/2004 7:40:19 AM PDT by jmstein7 (Real Men Don't Need Chunks of Government Metal on Their Chests to be Heroes)
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To: Lando Lincoln
But this stunning news has received little attention from the major media

Imagine that?

8 posted on 04/26/2004 7:40:25 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Lando Lincoln
Great News !
9 posted on 04/26/2004 7:40:35 AM PDT by ex-Texan
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To: Lando Lincoln
....it will reveal that the UN weapons inspections were also compromised by payoffs.

You are probably correct.....and the pigs who have
squealed the loudest, are no doubt the ones caught
with their filthy snouts in Saddam's trough.......
namely Scott Ritter and Hans Blix.
10 posted on 04/26/2004 7:41:22 AM PDT by MamaLucci (Libs, want answers on 911? Ask Clinton why he met with Monica more than with his CIA director.)
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To: Lando Lincoln
Nearly a year ago someone I knew in the ISG said that there were smoking guns.

There's a whole lot more going on than any of us know. And that may not be a bad thing.
11 posted on 04/26/2004 7:41:30 AM PDT by Eagle Eye (Coming to you live from HESCO city...)
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To: Lando Lincoln
We need to look in the places we have not looked yet:

Iraqis oh-so-holy mosques. What better palce to hide WMD?
12 posted on 04/26/2004 7:42:21 AM PDT by Iron Matron (Civil Disobedience? It's not just for liberals anymore!)
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To: Mitchell; Shermy
ping
13 posted on 04/26/2004 7:44:33 AM PDT by Allan
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To: Lando Lincoln
Bump for later reading - looks fascinating.
14 posted on 04/26/2004 7:45:23 AM PDT by ride the whirlwind (We can't let Kerry win - an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.)
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To: Lando Lincoln
We did not have to prove Saddam had WMD. He had to prove he didn't.
15 posted on 04/26/2004 7:46:10 AM PDT by petercooper (You'll get nothing and like it.)
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To: Lando Lincoln
Excellent summary, thanks for posting this informative recap. Last week, Timmerman exposed the duplicity of Chiraq and de Villipen when voicing their support for the war in Iraq and then suddenly withdrawing it. (I'm still boycotting all things French.) Now, I'll just sit here and hold my breath until the lamestream covers this.
16 posted on 04/26/2004 7:46:59 AM PDT by Quilla
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To: Lando Lincoln; Howlin; FairOpinion; backhoe; redlipstick; cyncooper; MEG33; Grampa Dave; ...
Much of this is not news to many of us who have gathered up the snippets of these stories where we could find them. Nevertheless, it leaves me wondering: why the heck isn't the Bush admin out there making this point? Timmerman lays it all out neatly; they could use his outline.
17 posted on 04/26/2004 7:48:15 AM PDT by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: Iron Matron
What better palce to hide WMD?

Syria, as was reported on FR at the time they were being moved.

18 posted on 04/26/2004 7:49:12 AM PDT by ASA Vet (It will take a few more major hits here at home before we decide on war.)
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To: 1Old Pro
The so-called main stream press would not report it if the Enola Gay was discovered on the tarmac with a bomb on board, flight plans for NY City on board, with alternate drop sites of Washington, DC or Resume Speed, Arkansas. They would not report it, believe it, or think Bush somehow planned it to help his reelection gig. EVERYTHING FROM NOW ON WILL BE SUSPECT BY THE PRESS. THEY WILL REPORT THAT BUSH HAD THE MILITARY HOLD IT BACK TO HELP HIS REELECTION BID. YOU WAIT AND SEE. IF SOMETHING BIG IS DISCOVERED FROM NOW TO THE ELECTION, THAT IS HOW THEY WILL SPIN IT!
19 posted on 04/26/2004 7:49:46 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (We'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American Way! Toby Keith)
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Bump to read later
20 posted on 04/26/2004 7:51:12 AM PDT by new cruelty
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