Saddam has weapons of mass destruction: Iraqi scientist (another one)

inq7 ^ | 2/16/03

[knak]

IRAQI President Saddam Hussein has been hiding weapons of mass destruction from United Nations weapons inspectors, one of his former scientists said.

"He has 200 security officers trained for years in concealment tactics," Doctor Hussan Al-Shahristani said in an interview aired Monday on GMA-7's "Unang Balita".

Hussan, who described Saddam as the "master of concealment", said "all the major Mosques" in Baghdad served as "command centers and storage areas" for chemical and biological weapons.

Even just one milligram of VX, a "very potent" chemical weapon kept by Saddam, was enough to kill a human being, said the scientist who worked for Iraq in the 1980s.

Hussan said the only way to resolve the Middle East conflict was for Saddam to be overthrown by his own people, not the United States.

"The best people willing, committed and able to do that are the Iraqi people themselves if they are given sufficient help by the international community," Hussan said.

US Secretary of State Collin Powell had failed to get the green light from majority of the UN Security Council to attack Iraq.

Except for the United Kingdom and Spain, council members at a meeting Friday said weapons inspections should continue.

Hussan said Saddam imprisoned him for 10 years for refusing to help in Iraq's nuclear weapons program. He escaped during the Gulf war in 1992.

[Paul Atreides]

But, but, but....such experts as Susan Saranwrap and Janeane Girrafalo say otherwise!

[IncPen]

We need more proof!

[areafiftyone]

You know what makes me angry when I read this. Right now Tony Blair is getting heat in the British House of Commons about alot of stuff. I am watching it on CSPAN. He is being booed and hissed at. All these so called Iraqi people who know things about their country are not saying this to the mainstream media and not standing in front of the U.N. and telling them. This information will never be given to the general public and Bush and Blair will look like liars to all the peaceniks. Sorry for the rant but I am so angry at the peaceniks.

[isol8td]

well u know susan suranwarp knows everything about everything. lol. its so obvious that they have nukes and such. but the lefty liberals and peacenicks see it otherwise, inspections must go on, what are inspections going to do? nothing, because he hides everything, but give peace a chance they say, but susan surandon will be at the terrorist attack to hand out bandaids. i hate hollywood liberals who think they know it all and dont give other people a voice or there labeled wrong or a war mongeror.

[texas booster]

"all the major Mosques" in Baghdad served as "command centers and storage areas" for chemical and biological weapons.

Is that why nearly all of the largest mosques in the world are in Iraq? Or why Hussein has built numerous mosques "for the children"?

IMO, nothing but underground storage sites for weapons.

[knak]

weapons hidden: ex nuclear advisor

[Number_Cruncher]

"all the major Mosques" in Baghdad served as "command centers and storage areas" for chemical and biological weapons.

When the inspectors entered a mosque a while back, there were major protests by the Iraqis. I don't think they have entered one since. Blix probably will agree that mosques are off limits for inspectors.

[sarcasm]

Mother of all Battles Mosque