Posted on 12/20/2002 2:18:59 AM PST by kattracks
Dec 20, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- Examples of omissions from Iraq's declaration to the U.N. Security Council about its weapons arsenal, according to the U.S. State Department: Anthrax and Other Undeclared Biological Agents
-A previous U.N. inspection commission concluded that Iraq did not verifiably account for, at a minimum, 2,160 kg (4,752 pounds) of growth media.
-This material, still unaccounted for, is enough to produce 26,000 liters of anthrax - three times the amount Iraq declared; 1,200 liters of botulinum toxin; and 5,500 liters of clostridium perfrigens - 16 times the amount Iraq declared.
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Ballistic Missiles
-Iraq has disclosed manufacturing new energetic fuels suited only to a class of missile to which it does not acknowledge.
-Iraq claims that flight-testing of a larger diameter missile falls within the 150-km (94-mile) limit. This claim is not credible.
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Nuclear Weapons
-The declaration ignores efforts to procure uranium from Niger.
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Nerve Gas
-In 1999, the previous U.N. inspection team concluded that Iraq needed to provide additional, credible information about VX production.
-The Iraqi declaration provides no information to address these concerns.
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Chemical and Biological Weapons Munitions
-In January 1999, the previous inspection team reported that Iraq failed to provide credible evidence that 550 mustard gas-filled artillery shells and 400 biological weapon-capable aerial bombs had been lost or destroyed.
-The Iraqi regime has never adequately accounted for hundreds, possibly thousands of tons of chemical precursors.
By The Associated Press
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