Found: Iraqi WMD

[Ripsnort]

http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13168

Two interesting quotes within:

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  

In taking apart Iraq's clandestine procurement network, Duelfer said his investigators had discovered that "the primary source of illicit financing for this system was oil smuggling conducted through government-to-government protocols negotiated with neighboring countries [and] from kickback payments made on contracts set up through the U.N. oil-for-food program"  

Time to give that money back to Toad, 10bears.

[Sixpence]

Yeah, we found stockpiles of chemical weapons, the liberal media just won't tell you.

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Sixpence
Yeah, we found stockpiles of chemical weapons, the liberal media just won't tell you.

When former weapons inspector Kay reported to Congress in January that the United States had found "no stockpiles" of forbidden weapons in Iraq, his conclusions made front-page news. But when he detailed what the ISG had found in testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence last October, few took notice. Among Kay's revelations, which officials tell Insight have been amplified in subsequent inspections in recent weeks:



--A prison laboratory complex that may have been used for human testing of BW agents and "that Iraqi officials working to prepare the U.N. inspections were explicitly ordered not to declare to the U.N." Why was Saddam interested in testing biological-warfare agents on humans if he didn't have a biological-weapons program?



--"Reference strains" of a wide variety of biological-weapons agents were found beneath the sink in the home of a prominent Iraqi BW scientist. "We thought it was a big deal," a senior administration official said. "But it has been written off [by the press] as a sort of 'starter set.'"



--New research on BW-applicable agents, brucella and Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever, and continuing work on ricin and aflatoxin that were not declared to the United Nations.



--A line of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, "not fully declared at an undeclared production facility and an admission that they had tested one of their declared UAVs out to a range of 500 kilometers [311 miles], 350 kilometers [217 miles] beyond the permissible limit."



--"Continuing covert capability to manufacture fuel propellant useful only for prohibited Scud-variant missiles, a capability that was maintained at least until the end of 2001 and that cooperating Iraqi scientists have said they were told to conceal from the U.N."



--"Plans and advanced design work for new long-range missiles with ranges up to at least 1,000 kilometers [621 miles] - well beyond the 150-kilometer-range limit [93 miles] imposed by the U.N. Missiles of a 1,000-kilometer range would have allowed Iraq to threaten targets throughout the Middle East, including Ankara [Turkey], Cairo [Egypt] and Abu Dhabi [United Arab Emirates]."



--In addition, through interviews with Iraqi scientists, seized documents and other evidence, the ISG learned the Iraqi government had made "clandestine attempts between late 1999 and 2002 to obtain from North Korea technology related to 1,300-kilometer-range [807 miles] ballistic missiles - probably the No Dong - 300-kilometer-range [186 miles] antiship cruise missiles and other prohibited military equipment," Kay reported.



--"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.

Both Duelfer and Kay found that Iraq had "a clandestine network of laboratories and safe houses with equipment that was suitable to continuing its prohibited chemical- and biological-weapons [BW] programs," the official said. "They found a prison laboratory where we suspect they tested biological weapons on human subjects." They found equipment for "uranium-enrichment centrifuges" whose only plausible use was as part of a clandestine nuclear-weapons program. In all these cases, "Iraqi scientists had been told before the war not to declare their activities to the U.N. inspectors," the official said.

But while the president's critics and the media might plausibly hide behind ambiguity and a lack of sensational-

looking finds for not reporting some discoveries, in the case of Saddam's ballistic-missile programs they have no excuse for their silence. "Where were the missiles? We found them," another senior administration official told Insight.

"Saddam Hussein's prohibited missile programs are as close to a slam dunk as you will ever find for violating United Nations resolutions," the first official said. Both senior administration officials spoke to Insight on condition that neither their name nor their agency be identified, but their accounts of what the United States has found in Iraq coincided in every major area.
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[Lizking]

Do you have a site where the government transcripts of that are Rip?  sounds like interesting reading.

[Sixpence]

Rip, those pictures are the same ones they used to get support to attack Iraq.

"looking finds for not reporting some discoveries, in the case of Saddam's ballistic-missile programs they have no excuse for their silence. "Where were the missiles? We found them," another senior administration official told Insight."

We found ballistic missiles?

"Both senior administration officials spoke to Insight on condition that neither their name nor their agency be identified, but their accounts of what the United States has found in Iraq coincided in every major area."

lol, why would they do that? Maybe so they don't get quoted?

"--"Reference strains" of a wide variety of biological-weapons agents were found beneath the sink in the home of a prominent Iraqi BW scientist. "We thought it was a big deal," a senior administration official said. "But it has been written off [by the press] as a sort of 'starter set.'"

So something that may have got from us 20 years ago?

If this information is so "factual", why does no one mention the names of the people they got the info from? Wouldn't they want you to know?

Is this posted at fightliberalism.com too?

[Ozark]

I wonder who owns that site?

[Staga]

So they found the WMDs? Well done!

[Duedel]

YEAH, YIPPIEEEEHHHH

was about time but ... hey GREAT, I'm so proud...

[deSelys]

Front Page Magazine...with a banner http://www.stophillarypac.com in the right corner...

Neutral, unbiased press all right...

[Staga]

C'mon DeSelys; just be happy that US finally found those WMDs.
Looks like Bush was right all this time  

[deSelys]

LOL Staga, I'm afraid that the irony in your posts will pass waaaay above the head of some simple minds here...

[beet1e]

Originally posted by Ripsnort
Time to give that money back to Toad, 10bears.

Did Toad actually cough up?

[101ABN]

there was no doubt that there were WDM's there. we just had to find where they buried them. its like a cat in the litterbox, dump and bury.

[deSelys]

So why did Powell acknowledge that the intel was wrong??

[straffo]

So in a plant producing Chlorine and Phenol some Chlorine and Phenol  were found ?

My god those Iraqis are weird


Seriously this article is full of wind ,it's a badly made compilation of old articles