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US Senate Intellegence Comittee Finds Iraq Had No Chemical, Biological, or Nuclear Weapons.
Yahoo News, US Senate Intellegence Comittee ^ | 7/09/2004 | KATHERINE PFLEGER SHRADER

Posted on 07/09/2004 9:55:49 AM PDT by usmc1775

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To: usmc1775
They found NOTHING, NOTHING, I tell you.

If there was, it WOULD have been in the mainstream media.

========= RUSSIAN MISSILES FOUND IN IRAQ =========

Russian-made R-60, NATO AA-8 Aphid, air-to-air missiles were found..
The Russian-made missiles are >6 feet long. Each carries 3.5 pounds of uranium.
wrapped around a high explosive warhead (13.2-pound) making a possible "dirty bomb".


Photographs made available by the Polish Army on July 2, 2004
which shows artillery shells found by Polish troops
in Iraq on June 16, 2004. Artillery shells found by Polish troops in Iraq
definitely 7/2/4contained the deadly nerve agent cyclosarin, the Polish army said
on Friday.


Partial list - Also found in Iraq:

* A clandestine network of laboratories and safehouses within the Iraqi Intelligence Service
that contained equipment subject to UN monitoring and suitable for continuing CBW research.

* A prison laboratory complex, possibly used in human testing of BW agents, that Iraqi officials
working to prepare for UN inspections were explicitly ordered not to declare to the UN.

* Reference strains of biological organisms concealed in a scientist's home,
one of which can be used to produce biological weapons.

* New research on BW-applicable agents, Brucella and Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF),
and continuing work on ricin and aflatoxin were not declared to the UN.

* Documents and equipment, hidden in scientists' homes, that would have been useful in
resuming uranium enrichment by centrifuge and electromagnetic isotope separation (EMIS).

* A line of UAVs not fully declared at an undeclared production facility and an admission
that they had tested one of their declared UAVs out to a range of 500 km, 350 km beyond the permissible limit.

* Continuing covert capability to manufacture fuel propellant useful only for prohibited SCUD variant missiles,
a capability that was maintained at least until the end of 2001 and that cooperating Iraqi scientists
have said they were told to conceal from the UN.

* Plans and advanced design work for new long-range missiles with ranges up to at least 1000 km -
well beyond the 150 km range limit imposed by the UN. Missiles of a 1000 km range would have allowed
Iraq to threaten targets through out the Middle East, including Ankara, Cairo, and Abu Dhabi.

Clandestine attempts between late-1999 and 2002 to obtain from North Korea technology
related to 1,300 km range ballistic missiles --probably the No Dong -- 300 km range anti-ship cruise missiles,
and other prohibited military equipment.


Still missing based on the UNSCOM report to the UN Security Council in January 1999,
when the UN inspectors left Iraq in 1998, they had been unable to account for:

• up to 360 tons of bulk chemical warfare agents, including 1.5 tons of VX nerve agent;

• up to 3,000 tons of precursor chemicals, including approximately 300 tons which,
in the Iraqi chemical warfare program, were unique to the production of VX;

• growth media procured for biological agent production (enough to produce
over three times the 8,500 litres of anthrax spores Iraq admitted to UN inspectors to having manufactured);

• over 30,000 special munitions for delivery of chemical and biological agents;

• 20 al-Hussein missles with a range of 650 km, in violation
of UN Security Council Resolution 687 (Iraq had told UNSCOM that it filled these warheads with anthrax and botulinum);

• 2,850 tons of mustard gas, 210 tons of tabun, and 795 tons of sarin and cyclosarin;

• development of the Al-Samoud short-range missle (which had the capability to fly beyond the 150 km allowed by UN resolutions)


=========== Documents linking Atta, Saddam, Nidal, bin Ladin ===========

Handwritten letter dated Feb. 19, 1998 linking bin Laden and Saddam Hussein
discussing arrival of a secret envoy sent by bin Laden to Iraq.
The signature beneath the letter is a codename, "MDA" - the Mukhabarat.


========= Chemical Warhead found in Kirkuk =============

Chemical warhead found at an Iraqi air base, marked with a green band,
the symbol for chemical weaponry
. Trace amounts of a nerve agent were found
at two spots along the ~meter-long warhead. These amounts are consistent with
leakage from the chemically armed weapon. A 13-foot missile was found next to it.


========= Halabja =========

Dead children, previously playing in Halabja
Victims of Saddams' WMD in March 1988.


21 posted on 07/09/2004 10:15:31 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("Then I say unto you, send men to summon ... worms. And let us go to Fallujah to collect heads.")
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I guess "Senate Intelligence" is related to "military intelligence"....

I guess that the warhead detonated a couple of months back didn't really have poison gas. I guess the tons of enriched uranium removed from Iraq in the last week didn't really exist. I guess the now restated evidence that Saddam was trying to buy Nuclear material from an African nation was made up.

I guess the mobile labs that we found the remains of didn't exist either...

Now - was the danger overstated? Maybe. But when the CIA had to deal with information that was not obtained by first-hand agents (thank to Clinton for the cut backs/out of human intelligence).

Heck - even John Edwards, the DemocRAT VP candidate specifically called Iraq an "imminent threat".....
22 posted on 07/09/2004 10:16:04 AM PDT by TheBattman (http://www.miniclip.com/bushshootout.htm)
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24 posted on 07/09/2004 10:16:42 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: usmc1775
"The key U.S. assertions leading to the 2003 invasion of Iraq — that Saddam Hussein had chemical and biological weapons and was working to make nuclear weapons — were wrong and based on false or overstated CIA analyses, a scathing Senate Intelligence Committee report asserted Friday."

Huh? So all the news reports of finding sarin and mustard gas, etc. were untrue?

Somehow I doubt that.

25 posted on 07/09/2004 10:17:15 AM PDT by MEGoody (Kerry - isn't that a girl's name? (Conan O'Brian))
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To: WI Conservative 4 Bush

"Yeah really. So, the handful of sarin/mustard shells found thusfar IN IRAQ don't exist??"

From the article; "Instead, investigations after the Iraq invasion have shown that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had no nuclear weapons program and no biological weapons, AND ONLY SMALL AMOUNTS OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS have been found."


26 posted on 07/09/2004 10:19:09 AM PDT by monday
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To: usmc1775

It's seems that no one here is buying that you are/were in the Corps. Most likely a dyke from DU.


27 posted on 07/09/2004 10:19:18 AM PDT by Elvis van Foster
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
"The big question for me is why was Saddam still evading the inspectors then? Why was he violating UN resolution 1441?"

He was an idiot who severely miscalculated. He thought that he was safe and could do as he wished.

Considering that he survived the 1st Gulf war, he probably thought he was untouchable.
28 posted on 07/09/2004 10:23:51 AM PDT by monday
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To: usmc1775

Welcome to FR.
As far as I'm concerned, we found the WMD when we captured Saddam Hussein!
When were you in the Corps?...or are you still in? LOL

Semper Fi,
Kelly

PS check my tagline


29 posted on 07/09/2004 10:26:00 AM PDT by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1/5 1st Mar Div. Nam 69&70 Semper Fi http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com)
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To: monday

So the real statement in all of this is that if you want to stay a brutal dictator, you had better keep your rising arrogance in check.


30 posted on 07/09/2004 10:26:41 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
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To: All

bump


31 posted on 07/09/2004 10:30:08 AM PDT by zook
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To: usmc1775
Thank heavens people who care about national security know better than to believe anything coming out of this sham committee.

We all know too, that the reason we were unprepared for the attack was the wall erected even higher than before by none other than Gore-lick.

32 posted on 07/09/2004 10:32:20 AM PDT by OldFriend (IF YOU CAN READ THIS, THANK A TEACHER.......AND SINCE IT'S IN ENGLISH, THANK A SOLDIER)
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To: usmc1775
The Senate Intelligence Committee's Report and the upcoming 911 Commission Report are the most MONUMENTALLY backward looking, hind-sighting, Monday morning quarterbacking exercises in futility EVER and the most egregious waste of TAX-PAYER money in HISTORY.

I am ashamed of the Republican Party whose effort to 'get along' has succeeded in making the IRAQ WAR a MISTAKE and 911 PREVENTABLE. It is utterly sickening.

33 posted on 07/09/2004 10:33:45 AM PDT by PISANO (NEVER FORGET 911 !!!!)
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To: Bahbah
Landrieu is a political pram; being groomed by that fat, murderous toad, Ted. Since the 2K debacle, I have been on her like a chicken on a junebug. Never forget her total disregard for military votes. Nor her disregard for honest elections.

SO, somebody needs to take the Landrieu challenge--- don't ya think??

34 posted on 07/09/2004 10:34:09 AM PDT by exhaustedmomma (Mary Landrieu challenged any Sen/Cong. to prove F-911 wrong this morning on FOX. GOP- get busy.)
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To: usmc1775

Personally, I don't even give a shit if Iraq had them or not. I think we needed a strategic foothold in the middle east TO HELP FIGHT TERRORISM, we figured Iraq would be easy enough to take over (be that as Saddam wasn't very well liked), and on top of that profitable.

I think America is missing the point.


35 posted on 07/09/2004 10:35:30 AM PDT by usmc1775
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To: usmc1775

Saddam needs a little truth serum in his morning tea


36 posted on 07/09/2004 10:39:50 AM PDT by aShepard
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To: monday

"Considering that he survived the 1st Gulf war, he probably thought he was untouchable."

Considering that he had the UN on his side profiting from his corrupt regime, he thought he was untouchable. He did not understand GWB.


37 posted on 07/09/2004 10:40:41 AM PDT by Bahbah
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To: exhaustedmomma

"I have been on her like a chicken on a junebug."

Y'all keep up the good work, ya hear!


38 posted on 07/09/2004 10:43:53 AM PDT by Bahbah
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To: usmc1775
The actual title of the article reads: "Report: CIA Gave False Info on Iraq", so the posted header is fairly misleading and screws up searches.

Welcome to FR, BTW.

Moderator, do I smell ozone?


39 posted on 07/09/2004 10:49:06 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Diogenesis

Great data.

Another data point - the 'no bio weapons' is also refuted
by last september finds of bio-toxins in saddam' bio-weapons programs (Kay report).

Saying there were no WMDs in Iraq is a lie. Instead, it should be saying 'we didnt find the chem and bio weapons stockpiles we feared might have been there. We found a lot of other stuff, some of which we didnt expect, and we found enough to prove there was a WMD proliferation threat that inspections did not find.'


40 posted on 07/09/2004 10:52:00 AM PDT by WOSG (Peace through Victory! Iraq victory, W victory, American victory!)
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