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

Posted on 04/28/2004 7:55:08 AM PDT by John Jorsett


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: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: found; kennethrtimmerman; wmd

1 posted on 04/28/2004 7:55:08 AM PDT by John Jorsett
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Bump
2 posted on 04/28/2004 7:56:59 AM PDT by Rocket1968 (Democrats will crash and burn in 2004.)
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To: John Jorsett
Data is being arranged so as to put the puzzle together for a conclusive read. The media will be unable to ignore it.
3 posted on 04/28/2004 7:58:15 AM PDT by sarasota
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bump!
4 posted on 04/28/2004 8:02:00 AM PDT by Spunky ("Everyone has a freedom of choice, but not of consequences.")
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To: sarasota
The media will be unable to ignore it.

Oh, such child-like faith.

5 posted on 04/28/2004 8:02:01 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: sarasota
They will try. All Bush has to do is to announce a press conference on "new developments in Iraq" and then show all the evidence he has to conclusively prove the WMD deniers wrong (again).
6 posted on 04/28/2004 8:02:14 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: John Jorsett
So many people forget that insecticide IS nerve agent, the only difference is concentration. So, if barrels and barrels of liquid in an ammo dump is reported as insecticide, then all that means is that it hadn't been weaponized yet.



Sheesh.
7 posted on 04/28/2004 8:02:56 AM PDT by Little Pig
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To: sarasota
It will be released when we figure the opponents of this war have been given enough rope to hang themselves. Of course...they have been given enough to separate their heads from their necks already. Should be a massive data dump in mid/late summer.
8 posted on 04/28/2004 8:03:25 AM PDT by NELSON111
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Reference bump.
9 posted on 04/28/2004 8:03:46 AM PDT by Rocko (Michael Moore: "Dude, I'm a hypocrite.")
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To: John Jorsett
Ongoing discoveries will continue to be overlooked by the media until official announcement from the White House.
10 posted on 04/28/2004 8:03:55 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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And that is the opponents' only hope, that it requires White House disclosure. Then they can weakly claim it's a "political release of information", though that won't matter all that much. Parts is Parts, as it's said, and WMD is WMD.

When the administration rams the information down the media's throat and past their butts into the waiting mouths of the Democrats, it won't matter if it is political or not.
11 posted on 04/28/2004 8:08:47 AM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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