Iraqis Caught Moving Weapons Materials

Lehrer News Hour ^ | 2 December 2002 | John Burns

[mrustow]

According to John Burns of the New York Times, now reporting on the Lehrer News Hour, weapons inspectors have determined that weapons equipment had been moved from a site without any accounting, and amid Iraqi denials of having moved anything. The equipment was known to UN inspectors, because it had been recorded during earlier, mid-to-late 1990s inspections. The Iraqis were obliged to notify inspectors every six months of any changes in the placement of the equipment. Burns says that the exact equipment has not been released.

[RKV]

BUSTED!

[anobjectivist]

Bombs over Baghdad

[Unknown Freeper]

Don't ask, don't tell?

[SierraWasp]

Surprise! Shock! Aghast! This is so hard to believe!!! (/sarcasm)

[TomGuy]

Music for the Occasion by Rusty Humphries.

[crystalk]

I think Zionist imperialist plotters did it to further oppress the Palestinian people.

NOT!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Nobody ever thought this would happen!

[Grampa Dave]

Man, this has to be fairly bad if the NY Slimes is reporting this unless they are still trying lie and make cover for their favorite Uncle, Uncle Saddam.

The good intel side of this is we know know where this stuff has been moved to, and who were the Welcome Wagon hosts.

[Steven W.]

This was reported during lunch time news hours in the US. Apparently the UN Inspectors held a press conference in front of the site after discovering the devices were missing along with the cameras left by UN Monitors. Iraqis said that the devices and cameras were "destroyed by western bombing".

[humblegunner]

So can we start bombing now???

[Plutarch]

[JRandomFreeper]

Iraqis said that the devices and cameras were "destroyed by western bombing".

But not the walls that held the cameras? Sure. I still have no faith in the word of an Islamist.

/john

[Grampa Dave]

Have you ever noticed how Uncle Saddam's criminal activities often parallel those of Uncle Gray our head criminal of Kaliland?

They both look you right in the face and lie to you as they commit their crimes, as if they have no controlling legal authority over them.

[TomGuy]

FoxNews reporting it.

Saddam/Iraq says "it" was destroyed by US bombs....probably.

Report says it is cameras and weapons equipment.

Not much further detail reported.

[Shermy]

"So can we start bombing now???"

Gotta find the smallpox first. And it's not at some old industrial site like these UN flunkies are investigating.

[hchutch]

Can you say "material breach?"

Four days, 20 hours, about thirty minutes... and counting.

[mrustow]

I just remember: according to Burns, when reporters went into the site following the inspectors' departure, the Iraqis told them the inspectors hadn't found anything amiss.

[rwfromkansas]

Wow. This sounds more serious than what was being reported earlier.