Pentagon Bombshell: U.S. Uncovers WMD Document 'Mother Lode'

Newsmax.com ^ | Wednesday July 16, 2003; 4:41 p.m. EDT

[nickcarraway]

The Pentagon's chief weapons inspector David Kay has uncovered what is being described as a "mother lode" of documents in Iraq detailing Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction program.

I've already seen enough to convince me," said Kay, a former U.N. weapons inspector, in an interview aired Tuesday with "NBC Nightly News" anchorman Tom Brokaw.

"We're finding progress reports. [Iraqi scientists] also got financial rewards from Saddam Hussein by breakthroughs, indicating breakthroughs. They actually took--went to Saddam and said 'We have made this progress.'" the top WMD prober explained. "There are records, there are audiotapes of those interviews which give us that."

"According to Kay, the Iraqis seem to keep documents on even the most damning evidence," said Brokaw.

In assessing the scope of Kay's find, the NBC newsman proclaimed, "This is a mother lode, an estimated seven and a half miles of documents, many of them collected by U.S. military from [Iraq's] official buildings, but many others handed over by Iraqi civilians."

Iraq's WMD files are currently undergoing a painstaking analysis, said Brokaw, who explained, "Many of them [are] handwritten, have to be scanned onto a computer in this small, highly secure facility."

Working with Arabic translators, U.S. weapons experts look for certain clues, including personnel records, foreign purchases and lab results.

The Pentagon's chief weapons prober said he didn't want to go public with details of his find until the case is an indisputable lock. "I know if we can't explain the WMD program of Iraq we lose credibility with regard to other states like Iran, Syria and North Korea," he told NBC.

How long will it take before President Bush is able to reveal what could be smoking gun justification of his decision to make war on Iraq?

"I think we will have a substantial body of evidence before six months," Kay told NBC.

Brokaw ended his report on Kay's find with a clip of Tuesday's comment by Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.; a move the newsman apparently intended as a reminder to Democrats who continue to carp about the lack of WMD evidence, that they're liable to be humiliated when the full story is known.

"It's a disgrace that the case for war seems to have been based on shoddy intelligence, hyped intelligence, and even false intelligence," Kennedy complained.

Meanwhile back in Baghdad, Kay continues to pour over his treasure trove of WMD documents.

[newgeezer]

Wow. This stuff must have been as difficult to stage as were the moonwalks. Perhaps even more difficult.

[newgeezer]

I hardly think that it's possible that seven miles of documents found in Iraq could be forgeries.

No volume of documentation would be the slightest obstacle to the good folks in D.C. That's for certain. Especially the DoD.

[NYC Republican]

I don't know what deflating you are talking about, we control both houses of congress, the white house, have gained seats in the last election and are on track to gain even more....

Just a little deflated in seeing the media on the attack, and our folks not counter-attacking as strongly as they should.

[jetson]

The anthrax powder found during 911 was of weapons grade. Very sophisticated. The dried anthrax spores were mixed with atomized glass so to keep the spores from sticking together plus giving the powder an extremely high elevating factor. One virolgist figured one quart of this powder thrown into the air on a windy day could travel 50 miles. These types of bioweapons must be rounded up and destroyed. Who has them? Who knows. But sitting around and discussing it will not accomplish anything. Wether here or there...we have to make sure the suicidal nuts of this world don't use them.

[Argh]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.........

[God luvs America]

Has anyone heard anything new on this? The further away it gets the more I'm afraid it is full of hot air....

[PhilDragoo]

"I think we will have a substantial body of evidence before six months," Kay told NBC.

Which makes it next State of the Union Speech.

I can announce to the American people tonight that our entry into Iraq last year terminated the deadliest weapons program threatening mankind in history.

[The popping sound is the Democrat leadership doing the Hitler Bunker Polka.]

Schaedenfreude to the tune of "Edelweiss" up to close.

[PhiKapMom]

LOL!!!!!!!!!!! I love that scenario!

[Grampa Dave]

We can start a donation to donate the ammo.

[Grampa Dave]

We can start a donation to donate the ammo.

[nutmeg]

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[Cindy]

LINKS OF INTEREST:

NY POST.com: "JUDGE FINDS OSAMA-SADDAM LINK" by Brian Blomquist (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "WASHINGTON - A federal judge helping to rebuild Iraq's judicial system says he's come up with an intriguing document linking Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden. Federal appellate Judge Gilbert Merritt, who is currently in Iraq, said an Iraqi lawyer brought him documents that included the name of an Iraqi officer in that country's embassy in Pakistan who was described as "responsible for the coordination of activities with the Osama bin Laden group." "It seems to me to be strong proof that the two were in contact and conspiring to perform terrorist acts," Merritt, a Democrat and longtime family friend of Al Gore, wrote in a dispatch for The Tennesseean newspaper - charges similar to those previously reported by The Weekly Standard. "Until this time, I have been skeptical about these claims," wrote the Cincinnati-based judge. "Now I have changed my mind."") (July 12, 2003) (Read More...)

MEMRI.org - MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE Special Dispatch Series No.539: "A NEW BIN LADEN SPEECH" (July 18, 2003) (Read More...)

ISLAM ONLINE.net: "SADDAM BLASTS BUSH-BLAIR 'LIES', SLAMS GOVERNING COUNCIL" (July 17, 2003) (Read More...)

[MattinNJ]

My God. Is that pic accurate? Murdering bastard. Shame on Mass. for re-electing him.

[PetroniDE]

Bump for bookmarking

[anglian]

Worth repeating! New Evidence Could Sway Opinion on Iraq, Analysts Say
By Lawrence Morahan
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
July 17, 2003

(CNSNews.com) - Amid mounting pressure on the Bush administration to explain questionable intelligence it used to justify war with Iraq, a U.N. arms inspector claims he is confident that within six months, he'll have "a substantial body of evidence" proving that Saddam Hussein did have a weapons of mass destruction program.

"I've already seen enough to convince me," U.N. arms inspector David Kay told NBC News anchorman Tom Brokaw on Tuesday's Nightly News broadcast.

[anglian]

Mr. Kay http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/unscom/interviews/kay.html