[savedbygrace]

I'm certain there will be an explanation forthcoming. HA!

[dirtboy]

Demetrius Perricos, who is leading one of the U.N. inspection teams in Iraq, said Wednesday his team of international arms experts secured about a dozen Iraqi artillery shells containing the mustard liquid agent.

Fingers are flying as the Iraqis change their WMD inventory from "Nothing" to "Eight shells of mustard gas that the U.N. inspectors planted to trigger a war."

[js1138]

dejon or brown?

[RightWhale]

Is that a WMD? Or is it just banned?

[Maedhros]

material breach

[A Navy Vet]

Is Mustard gas considered a WMD?

[The Turbanator]

Ok, now what?

[EternalHope]

Breaking news?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec 04, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- AP Special Correspondent

Iraq objected Wednesday to U.N. weapons inspectors' surprise intrusion into one of Saddam Hussein's presidential palaces. The U.N. monitors countered that they're taking the right approach - navigating between Iraqi complaints and U.S. pressure for more "severe" inspections.

"We are getting results," said inspection team leader Demetrius Perricos.

Among other things, he reported that on a five-hour inspection Wednesday of a desert installation, the international arms experts secured about a dozen Iraqi artillery shells - previously known to be there - containing a powerful chemical weapon, the liquid agent mustard.

It was the first report of such armaments traced and controlled in the week-old round of new inspections.

Perricos' team and another paid unannounced visits to that key site and to the nerve center of Iraq's old nuclear weapons program, places that were bombed, searched and dismantled in the 1990s. The 2002 inspectors wanted to ensure that Baghdad's plans for ultimate weapons have not been revived.

[snip]

[mass55th]

Now let's see if these canisters are listed on the so-called inventory Iraq is supposed to release tomorrow.

[daviddennis]

Well, that didn't take long, did it?

Any word on where they were found?

Did Saddam not categorically deny that he had any weapons of mass destruction, including chemical weapons?

D

[iceskater]

Sounds like someone screwed up at the UN. Whoever was supposed to notify the Iraqis of the inspection schedule, failed to to do so. This stuff wasn't supposed to be found. Iraq has no WMD, you know. [sarcasm off]

[Maedhros]

link

[finnman69]

Soon to be heard at DUmmyland and the UN

"BUT BUT BUT its only 8 shells"

In Baghdad, a senior Iraqi official said Iraq will hand over its report on chemical, biological and nuclear programs on Saturday, a day ahead of the U.N. deadline. The official, Gen. Hossam Mohammed Amin, said the report will not admit to any proscribed weaponry "because, really, we have no weapons of mass destruction."

[Ground0]

Curious, no mention of "Bad manners" by UN "Inspectors" by Iraqi "officals."

Elementry, my dear Watson.

[demlosers]

Material Breech!

[finnman69]

Iraq Tells the World Again We Have No Banned Arms

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=564&ncid=716&e=8&u=/nm/20021204/ts_nm/iraq_dc
By Nadim Ladki and Carol Giacomo

BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraq said on Wednesday its planned declaration to the United Nations (news - web sites) would cover biological, chemical, missile and nuclear technologies, but stressed again it had no weapons of mass destruction.

Baghdad's latest statement was another message of defiance to President Bush (news - web sites), who insists Iraq does possess weapons of mass destruction and has threatened war if necessary to disarm it.

U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz cooled any talk of imminent war, however, saying Iraq's declaration to the U.N. would not in itself trigger a U.S. decision on military action.

"I'm quite sure (Bush) is not going to make it simply on the basis of one single piece of information," Wolfowitz said in Brussels. "He's going to make it...also (in) close consultation, particularly with our allies but indeed with the international community."

Hussam Mohammed Amin, head of the Iraqi National Monitoring Directorate, said in Baghdad: "The declaration will repeat that in Iraq there are no weapons of mass destruction.

"It will be a huge declaration. Of course it contains new elements," he told a news conference.

Amin, who has already said the dossier will be handed over on Saturday, a day before the U.N. deadline, said it would cover "biological, chemical and missile and nuclear activities" as well as "dual-use activities," a reference to technology with both civilian and military applications.

Washington dismissed Iraq's statement and demanded a more aggressive U.N. hunt for arms of mass destruction as inspectors in Iraq trudged past camels and through a foul-smelling desert site. So far they have found nothing untoward, apart from some old artillery shells containing mustard gas that the U.N. already knew about.

[VaBthang4]

Sacré bleu, Attaquezz!

[cmsgop]

This is a vey series Material Bench™..........

[Seeking the truth]

Permission to fire, sir?

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