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To: amom
Some gal

"...Since the Gulf War, Taha, a British-trained biologist, has made a career of thwarting U.N. officials at every turn. She is, says one of them, "a consummate liar." First she claimed that her program had been strictly defensive, and then that all Iraq's biological agents had been destroyed. When inspectors uncovered caches of germ agents, she blandly claimed that only a few small quantities had survived. "Iraq has said that it destroyed stockpiles of biological weapons after the war," says Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon. "We have absolutely no confirmation that that has happened. We assume that they do have some stockpiles of biological weapons." In addition to thousands of gallons of anthrax and botulinum and smaller quantities of other poisons, some "weaponized" germs are unaccounted for: artillery shells, missile warheads and bombs filled with toxins..."


http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1997/dom/971201/world.germ_warfare_.html

24 posted on 10/22/2001 10:22:02 PM PDT by amom
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To: amom
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Military Balance in teh Middle East XIV
Weapons of Mass Destruction
http://www.csis.org/mideast/reports/mbmeXIVWMD31599.pdf
27 posted on 10/22/2001 10:42:59 PM PDT by amom
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To: amom
"We have absolutely no confirmation that [stockpile destruction] has happened. We assume that they do have some stockpiles of biological weapons."

Gosh. Scott Ritter says everything was destroyed, aside from that "final 10 percent" which was the internal Iraqui inventory documentation that would have allowed him to confirm the destruction. No, they wouldn't let him see that.

Not to worry, though. Ritter is confident that he had complete access to everything in Iraq, because he "even got into Saddam Hussein's bathroom."

What is wrong with this picture?

35 posted on 10/23/2001 11:05:48 AM PDT by angkor
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