WMD found:
Kenneth Timmerman, Insight:
"New evidence out of Iraq suggests that the U.S. effort to track down Saddam Hussein's missing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is having better success than is being reported. Key assertions by the intelligence community that were widely judged in the media and by critics of President George W. Bush as having been false are turning out to have been true after all. But this stunning news has received little attention from the major media, and the president's critics continue to insist that 'no weapons' have been found.
"In virtually every case - chemical, biological, nuclear and ballistic missiles - the United States has found the weapons and the programs that the Iraqi dictator successfully concealed for 12 years from U.N. weapons inspectors.
"The Iraq Survey Group (ISG), whose intelligence analysts are managed by Charles Duelfer, a former State Department official and deputy chief of the U.N.-led arms-inspection teams, has found 'hundreds of cases of activities that were prohibited' under U.N. Security Council resolutions, a senior administration official tells Insight. 'There is a long list of charges made by the U.S. that have been confirmed, but none of this seems to mean anything because the weapons that were unaccounted for by the United Nations remain unaccounted for.'
"Both Duelfer and his predecessor, David Kay, reported to Congress that the evidence they had found on the ground in Iraq showed Saddam's regime was in 'material violation" of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441, the last of 17 resolutions that promised "serious consequences' if Iraq did not make a complete disclosure of its weapons programs and dismantle them in a verifiable manner. The United States cited Iraq's refusal to comply with these demands as one justification for going to war."
Timmerman discusses the discovery of huge quanties of "pesticides" in camoflaged 55 gallon barrels stored in weapons depots. In one case they were right next to a rocket facility. Read the whole article.
Kenneth Timmerman, Insight:
"New evidence out of Iraq suggests that the U.S. effort to track down Saddam Hussein's missing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is having better success than is being reported. Key assertions by the intelligence community that were widely judged in the media and by critics of President George W. Bush as having been false are turning out to have been true after all. But this stunning news has received little attention from the major media, and the president's critics continue to insist that 'no weapons' have been found.
"In virtually every case - chemical, biological, nuclear and ballistic missiles - the United States has found the weapons and the programs that the Iraqi dictator successfully concealed for 12 years from U.N. weapons inspectors.
"The Iraq Survey Group (ISG), whose intelligence analysts are managed by Charles Duelfer, a former State Department official and deputy chief of the U.N.-led arms-inspection teams, has found 'hundreds of cases of activities that were prohibited' under U.N. Security Council resolutions, a senior administration official tells Insight. 'There is a long list of charges made by the U.S. that have been confirmed, but none of this seems to mean anything because the weapons that were unaccounted for by the United Nations remain unaccounted for.'
"Both Duelfer and his predecessor, David Kay, reported to Congress that the evidence they had found on the ground in Iraq showed Saddam's regime was in 'material violation" of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441, the last of 17 resolutions that promised "serious consequences' if Iraq did not make a complete disclosure of its weapons programs and dismantle them in a verifiable manner. The United States cited Iraq's refusal to comply with these demands as one justification for going to war."
Timmerman discusses the discovery of huge quanties of "pesticides" in camoflaged 55 gallon barrels stored in weapons depots. In one case they were right next to a rocket facility. Read the whole article.
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