[MJY1288]

Ritter also said that the boxes they were in were covered in bird droppings, Therefore they had to be very old :-)

[Howlin]

Which turned out to be a lie.

[Howlin]

And how on EARTH would he have known that anyway.......since he said that within hours of the first reports.

I doubt HE has any contacts left with the inspectors.

[piasa]

Ritter also said that the boxes they were in were covered in bird droppings, Therefore they had to be very old :-)

I take it Ritter's never seen what a flock of Rhode Island Reds can "doo" in a day.

Hope those UN inspectors get their shovels and start digging into Iraqi chickenhouse floors... might be some surprises. They might find about 3,000 chem warheads and the misplaced integrity of one UNSCOM inspector.

[piasa]

You'll get a kick out of this, snipped from an article on UNSCOM:

1995 : (IRAQ : UNSCOM : NUCLEAR DOCUMENTS FOUND IN CHICKENHUOUSE) The most famous case was in 1995 when Saddam Hussein's sons-in-law defected to Jordan. In the wake of that defection, an abundance of documents was found in a chicken coop on a farm near Baghdad. In addition to the discovery of those documents, the defection led to the dumping of many components intended for use in developing nuclear weapons (and which apparently came from Russia) into the Tigris River to prevent their discovery.

[_Jim]

Ritter also said that the boxes they were in were covered in bird droppings,

Any mention by the inspectors of millet sprays near -or over- the boxes?