You mean this guy, pictured here below his hero?
Posted on 06/11/2004 1:17:07 PM PDT by freebilly
The United Nations has determined that Saddam Hussein shipped weapons of mass destruction components as well as medium-range ballistic missiles before, during and after the U.S.-led war against Iraq in 2003.
The UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission briefed the Security Council on new findings that could help trace the whereabouts of Saddam's missile and WMD program.
The briefing contained satellite photographs that demonstrated the speed with which Saddam dismantled his missile and WMD sites before and during the war. Council members were shown photographs of a ballistic missile site outside Baghdad in May 2003, and then saw a satellite image of the same location in February 2004, in which facilities had disappeared.
UNMOVIC acting executive chairman Demetrius Perricos told the council on June 9 that "the only controls at the borders are for the weight of the scrap metal, and to check whether there are any explosive or radioactive materials within the scrap," Middle East Newsline reported.
"It's being exported," Perricos said after the briefing. "It's being traded out. And there is a large variety of scrap metal from very new to very old, and slowly, it seems the country is depleted of metal."
"The removal of these materials from Iraq raises concerns with regard to proliferation risks," Perricos told the council. Perricos also reported that inspectors found Iraqi WMD and missile components shipped abroad that still contained UN inspection tags.
He said the Iraqi facilities were dismantled and sent both to Europe and around the Middle East. at the rate of about 1,000 tons of metal a month. Destionations included Jordan, the Netherlands and Turkey.
The Baghdad missile site contained a range of WMD and dual-use components, UN officials said. They included missile components, reactor vessel and fermenters – the latter required for the production of chemical and biological warheads.
"It raises the question of what happened to the dual-use equipment, where is it now and what is it being used for," Ewen Buchanan, Perricos's spokesman, said. "You can make all kinds of pharmaceutical and medicinal products with a fermenter. You can also use it to breed anthrax."
The UNMOVIC report said Iraqi missiles were dismantled and exported to such countries as Jordan, the Netherlands and Turkey. In the Dutch city of Rotterdam, an SA-2 surface-to-air missile, one of at least 12, was discovered in a junk yard, replete with UN tags. In Jordan, UN inspectors found 20 SA-2 engines as well as components for solid-fuel for missiles.
"The problem for us is that we don't know what may have passed through these yards and other yards elsewhere," Buchanan said. "We can't really assess the significance and don't know the full extent of activity that could be going on there or with others of Iraq's neighbors."
UN inspectors have assessed that the SA-2 and the short-range Al Samoud surface-to-surface missile were shipped abroad by agents of the Saddam regime. Buchanan said UNMOVIC plans to inspect other sites, including in Turkey.
In April, International Atomic Energy Agency director-general Mohammed El Baradei said material from Iraqi nuclear facilities were being smuggled out of the country.
One word -- HUGH!
BTW, Kerry's angle could simply be "Hey, back in 1998 I said those weapons were there. And I voted for Clinton's Iraq Liberation Act, and Bush's proposals."
Instead he flip flops.
We're also giving everyone a pass on the oil for food scandal.There's a great many people who could have been burned badly by that scandal and we and the Iraqis had the smoking guns. The great sense of cooperation we see today demonstrates that we didn't need CSI to find the evidence. We had it ready to go.
I can't believe that people on FR still believe the media! Must be a heck of a lot of DU plants here!
There is NO DOUBT that there were nuclear/chemical/bilogical weapons in Iraq (don't believe me? look it up for yourselves!) It is all on the internet archives - even back with the DNC in power in congress their own studies & reports stated exactly what was there, where it was and how much.
THINK! During the initial battles there were reports of chemical and biologics being detected and found (then news black-out) - they found chemical and biologics in the Euphrates River where much was dumped! The USA will probably never disclose the casualties from that atrocity commited by Saddam.
Quit listening to the mainstream liars and re-learn how to think and read for yourselves!
I don't understand. This article doesn't talk about WMDs it talks about SA missile components showing up in foreign scrap yards?
Wow. Thanks. I just called the CBS number which you posted. Spoke with a young lady. She was very polite to me and I was also polite with her. More flies with honey and all that.
Anyway, I asked when CBS plans to report on the WMD reported found by the UN. She said she wasn't aware of that story.
I told her about the UN report and suggested she go to un.org, and she said she would.
Now, whether this goes any further than an intern humoring a caller, I don't know.
This can't be true - I haven't seen it reported on ABCCBSNBCCNN...
You mean this guy, pictured here below his hero?
"Wonder how they explain the mix in flight Sarin artillery shell, it wasn't destroyed until it was set off as an IED. "
It was also a type of shell that had never been declared by Iraq... They never declared ANY 155MM binary shells. I looked that up myself in the UNMOVIC archives at http://WWW.FAS.ORG.
Exactly what I thoguht the minute I saw this. An OK trade, IMO.
SERIES!
Bush said there will be another report coming out about WMD during the G8 summit. He looked very confident and he has something up his sleeve for the naysayers. He must be a good poker player.
The Oil for Food scandal is going to make everyone at the UN suddenly become a little more proficient. They are going to discover all kinds of things that slipped their attention just a few months ago.
Sorry to post and run, but I actually had to unfreep myself to handle some business.
Pretty serious news. What are the odds that Dan Rather will devote more than 30 seconds to this...?
They also talked about a ship floating around with WMD.
Yes! Thanks for making the confirming calls!
So why then did Kay make that stupid statement..."we got it all wrong." That's exactly the kind of one sentence soundbyte that the liberal media jumps on and will broadcast endlessly on TV. For a really smart guy, he made an incredibly dumb move by making that statement. We didn't get it all wrong and he should have known better than to make that statement.
Much thanks for posting this.
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