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  • Iraqi researchers were ordered to destroy experiments ahead of U.N. searches

    04/23/2003 12:04:24 AM PDT · by HAL9000 · 6 replies · 187+ views
    Associated Press | April 23, 2003 | NIKO PRICE
    BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Six Iraqi scientists working at different Baghdad research institutions were ordered to destroy some bacteria and equipment and hide more in their homes before visits from U.N. weapons inspectors in the months leading up to the war, the scientists told The Associated Press. In separate interviews, all of the scientists said they were involved in civilian research projects and none knew of any programs for weapons of mass destruction. It was not clear why their materials, ostensibly for nonmilitary research, were ordered destroyed. But their accounts indicate the government of Saddam Hussein may have had...