From: Dickey, Michael F (michael_f_dickey@groton.pfizer.com)
Date: Mon Jan 27 2003 - 09:04:24 MST
Mike Lorrey said:
>
> >
> > Ditto on rules of evidence as above. There is in fact evidence of
> > concealment in that significant quantities of chemical and
> biotoxins
> > known to be in inventory in 1998 are not accounted for in Iraq's
> most
> > recent Declaration to the Security Council. They have disappeared
> from
> > the tally, and Iraq refuses to disclose what happened to them.
> >
>
Samantha responded:
> Where precisely did you get this information?
To which Mike Lorrey said:
"Where millions of other informed citizens get it: cable news, the
newspapers, and the internet. Hans Blix stated these facts before the
Security Council (as did the US administration) after Iraq released its
Declaration to the UNSCOM."
Samantha, I can not seem to find a response on your part to this
information.
Iraq submitted to U.N. inspections in February of 1991, after the
Persian Gulf War. In doing so, they agreed to end all weapons of mass
destruction programs, however; in 1997, American members of the U.N. Special
Commision (UNSCOM) were expelled from Iraq. In 1998 Iraq temporarily
withdrew cooperation, on grounds of their complaint that the Inspection
Teams were comprised of an unfair proportion of U.S. and British members. In
December, 1998, U.N. Special Commision determined that Iraq was not fully
complying, and removed all inspectors and officials from Iraq. Iraq
continued to reject new weapon inspections programs. In September of 2002,
on threat of "dire consequences", Iraq unconditionally accepted the return
of U.N. weapons inspectors.
I personally did some digging to turn up a more accurate list of
what UN inspectors had all ready found, but were not disclosed in IRAQ
10,000 page declaration. Note, if WMD destruction are NOT found, that would
be a very bad thing, because it means saddam has them but has successfully
obfuscated their locations. Every time someone on the media says 'Bush is
planning for war, even though UN inspectors have found no WMD' they should
be saying 'Bush is planning for war because the UN inspectors have not found
the WMD they had all-ready previously found in IRAQ, that now go unaccounted
for.' No, its not an outright lie on the medias part, but this blatent
ommission of information changes the interpretation drastically.
>From - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/826067/posts
And Also - http://www.house.gov/hunter/iraqfailures.html United States House
of Representatives
Here is what Iraq had in 1998 and has not accounted for:
. Iraq has failed to account for 26,500 artillery rockets used for
delivering nerve gas.
. Iraq has failed to account for 5,000 artillery shells filled with
mustard gas.
. Iraq has failed to account for more than 3,000 tons of chemicals used
for weapons.
. Iraq has failed to honor No Fly Zone restrictions by firing on coalition
aircraft patrolling the area more than 250 times since September 2002.
. Iraq has failed to account for all of its weapons in its recent
declaration to the United Nations Security Council. Omissions from the
declaration include:
Iraq did not account for, at a minimum, 216kg of biological agent growth
media- enough to produce:
* 26,000 liters of anthrax- 3 times the amount declared.
* 1200 liters of botulinum toxin.
* 5500 liters of clostridium perfrigens- 16 times the amount declared.
Iraq has disclosed manufacturing new energetic fuels suited only to a
class of missile that it does not admit to having.
Iraq ignores efforts to procure uranium from Niger.
Iraq failed to respond to UN Special Commission requests for more,
credible, information about VX (nerve gas) production.
Iraq has never adequately accounted for hundreds, possibly thousands
of tons of chemical precursors.
Iraq has failed to account for nearly 30,000 empty munitions that
could be filled with chemical agents.
Iraq provides no information about its mobile biological weapon agent
facilities. Instead it calls them "refrigeration vehicles and food testing
laboratories".
Iraq has upgraded chemical reactors and production equipment at
Falluja II, one of Baghdad's principal production plants for chemical
weapons prior to the Gulf War. Falluja II and other facilities now produce
more chlorine than is necessary for water treatment- evidence that chlorine
is being diverted for military purposes.
Iraq has started building a new test stand facility clearly intended
to test long-range missile engines.
Iraq has rebuilt a production facility for long-range solid fuel
missiles that was dismantled by the UN.
Iraq has openly praised the September 11th attacks
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A few people had also stated, in response to my 'A murderous tyrant controls
the worlds second largest supply of cheap energy' things to the effect of
'what can he do with it'
>From - http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/iraq_wmd/Iraq_Oct_2002.htm
"Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs"
"Iraq's growing ability to sell oil illicitly increases Baghdad's
capabilities to finance WMD programs; annual earnings in cash and goods have
more than quadrupled. [Since inspections ended in 1998]"
This CIA site also includes, among other things, detailed information on:
Documented Iraqi Use of Chemical Weapons
Biological Warfare Program
Iraqi-Acknowledged Open-Air Testing of Biological Weapons
Ballistic Missile Program
Procurement in Support of WMD Programs
Regards,
Michael Dickey
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