Posted on 10/06/2004 5:22:01 PM PDT by advance_copy
Samples of Key Findings:
1. "Senior Iraqisseveral of them from the Regimes inner circletold ISG they assumed Saddam would restart a nuclear program once UN sanctions ended."
2. "Another element of this strategy involved circumventing UN sanctions and the OFF program by means of Protocols or government-to-government economic trade agreements. Protocols allowed Saddam to generate a large amount of revenue outside the purview of the UN. The successful implementation of the Protocols, continued oil smuggling efforts, and the manipulation of UN OFF contracts emboldened Saddam to pursue his military reconstitution efforts starting in 1997 and peaking in 2001. These efforts covered conventional arms, dual-use goods acquisition, and some WMD-related programs."
3. "The way Iraq organized its chemical industry after the mid-1990s allowed it to conserve the knowledge-base needed to restart a CW [chemical weapons] program, conduct a modest amount of dual-use research, and partially recover from the decline of its production capability caused by the effects of the Gulf war and UN-sponsored destruction and sanctions."
4. "ISG uncovered information that the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) maintained throughout 1991 to 2003 a set of undeclared covert laboratories to research and test various chemicals and poisons, primarily for intelligence operations."
5. "ISG judges that Iraqs actions between 1991 and 1996 demonstrate that the state intended to preserve its BW [biological weapons] capability and return to a steady, methodical progress toward a mature BW program when and if the opportunity arose."
6. "...after 1996 Iraq still had a significant dual-use capabilitysome declaredreadily useful for BW if the Regime chose to use it to pursue a BW program. Moreover, Iraq still possessed its most important BW asset, the scientific know-how of its BW cadre."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.findlaw.com ...
Saddam's intelligence service was developing chemical weapons and poisons for "intelligence operations". Was the IIS involved with terrorists? A President of the United States who is committed to protecting his country could not afford such a risk.
I find it hard to believe that The Senate Intelligence committe did not have fore knowledge of the above events... Senators Kerry and Edwards have some explaining to do...
Sheesh, they might run an op by mailing letters to Congress laced with anthrax.
"primarily for intelligence operations."
Yep. Small scale, like "Amerithrax".
Bump to keep this before Mainstream Media before it sinks without a trace.
last bump of the night
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