AP March 8 2003

The failure of chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix to inform the UN's Security Council of the discovery of an Iraqi drone with a 24 foot wingspan, during his oral presentation yesterday has outraged U.S. officials and cast serious doubt about his objectivity.

According to Britain's Times newspaper, during his oral report to the Council Blix never mentioned the drone, but instead, buried the item about the pilotless, remotely controlled aircraft capable of carrying chemical or biological weapons, in the 173-page single-spaced report that was distributed to Council members later in the day. Moreover, also buried in the report, described by Britain's foreign minister Jack Straw as a "chilling read," was what it called "credible information" indicating that 21,000 liters of biological warfare agent, including some 10,000 liters of anthrax, was stored in bulk at locations around the country during the Gulf War and was never destroyed.

According to the report, "Recent inspections have also revealed the existence of a drone with a wingspan of 7.45m that has not been declared by Iraq ...Officials at the inspection site stated that the drone had been test-flown. Further investigation is required to establish the actual specifications and capabilities of these RPV drones" which the Times says are restricted by the same UN rules as missiles, which limit their range to 150km (92.6 miles).

In the report, inspectors warned that Iraq still has spraying devices and drop tanks that could be used in dispersing chemical and biological agents from aircraft. "A large number of drop tanks of various types, both imported and locally manufactured, are available and could be modified," it says.

The report which was obtained by The Times, details the possible chemical and biological arsenal that British and US Forces could face in an invasion of Iraq. The report suggests that Iraq has huge stockpiles of anthrax, may be developing long-range missiles and could possess chemical and biological R400 aerial bombs and Scud missiles, and even smallpox.

"Unmovic has credible information that the total quantity of biological warfare agent in bombs, warheads and in bulk at the time of the Gulf War was 7,000 liters more than declared by Iraq. This additional agent was most likely all anthrax," the report revealed.

Blix is creating a "cover up" of the facts when he is the author of the report that he is covering up?

Change your name to Desperate-daisy

lover of straw-men

So, we can see what the new "Spin of the Day" is: Blix is covering up for Iraq. "Can we bomb'em now? Can we. Can we. Aw c'mon."

In other words try to obfuscate, claim Blix is really covering up for Iraq by generating Straw Men and then accuse Iraq of not proving a negative.

Desperation by the Blood Hawks. Reality is, if he had Biologicals - for which there is no proof, Saddam does not need drones to deliver it. Any Aircraft equipped with a Spray Tank could do the job. This is another Administration Tempest in a Teapot, Clutching at a Fig-leaf, before we attack, Propaganda Piece.

"Any Aircraft equipped with a Spray Tank could do the job." You don't really believe this do you. The technology required for air dispersal of any biological agent is immense. A simple spray tank would NOT do the job. Here's a clip from stimson.org:

Terrorists cannot count on just filling the delivery system with agent, pointing the device, and flipping the switch to activate it. Facets that must be deciphered include the concentration of agent in the delivery system, the ways in which the delivery system degrades the potency of the agent, and the right dosage to incapacitate or kill human or animal targets. For open-air delivery, the meteorological conditions must be taken into account. Biological agents have extreme sensitivity to sunlight, humidity, pollutants in the atmosphere, temperature, and even exposure to oxygen, all of which can kill the microbes. Biological agents can be dispersed in either dry or wet forms. Using a dry agent can boost effectiveness because drying and milling the agent can make the particles very fine, a key factor since particles must range between 1 to 10 ten microns, ideally to 1 to 5, to be breathed into the lungs. Drying an agent, however, is done through a complex and challenging process that requires a sophistication of equipment and know-how that terrorist organizations are unlikely to possess. The alternative is to develop a wet slurry, which is much easier to produce but a great deal harder to disperse effectively. Wet slurries can clog sprayers and undergo mechanical stresses that can kill 95 percent or more of the microorganisms.

...alot of words. Caducado, alot of desparate, clutching, grasping words...

...upon further review, you are actually hanging yourself by your own argument here...

...such technology leaves a footprint...a very BIG one...