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To: knak
Do anyone of you remember Powell referring to the Iraqi drones in his Feb 5th statement. Fox mentioned this also a few minutes ago.
51 posted on 03/08/2003 6:31:45 PM PST by TexKat
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To: TexKat
If I recall it was mentioned they thought Saddam had a drone

But it wasn't mention that Blix found them

52 posted on 03/08/2003 6:33:51 PM PST by Mo1 (RALLY FOR AMERICA - VALLEY FORGE,PA MARCH 16, 2003 1:00 PM)
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To: TexKat
Our intelligence said that Iraq had this drone and Powell told the Security Council about it from our Intelligence reports.

Blix NEVER reported they found the drones but instead dissed our intelligence reports if you remember!
58 posted on 03/08/2003 6:37:53 PM PST by PhiKapMom (Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US)
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To: TexKat
Powell discussed this, yes, during his presentation. He showed a slide that depicted an area where they'd monitored the testing of this drone and noted that they would fly it around & around in circles so they could exceed the distance the inspectors were looking for.
63 posted on 03/08/2003 6:39:20 PM PST by Steven W.
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To: TexKat
"Do anyone of you remember Powell referring to the Iraqi drones in his Feb 5th statement."

Absolutely—Powell presented an "analysts' estimate" mockup picture of the drone. He also said that US radar had tracked a test flight of the drone where it flew some 500 laps on a kilometer-long figure-8 course, IIRC. The left of course totally scorned the entire report. It's the same old catch-22: If Blix doesn't find something, it's because there's nothing to find, but when he does find something it's proof that "the inspections are working."

74 posted on 03/08/2003 6:46:57 PM PST by Fabozz
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