We have discovered dozens of WMD-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations during the inspections that began in late 2002. The discovery of these deliberate concealment efforts have come about both through the admissions of Iraqi scientists and officials concerning information they deliberately withheld and through physical evidence of equipment and activities that ISG has discovered that should have been declared to the UN.
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A clandestine network of laboratories and safehouses within the Iraqi Intelligence Service that contained equipment subject to UN monitoring and suitable for continuing CBW research.
* A prison laboratory complex, possibly used in human testing of BW agents, that Iraqi officials working to prepare for UN inspections were explicitly ordered not to declare to the UN.
* Reference strains of biological organisms concealed in a scientist's home, one of which can be used to produce biological weapons.
* New research on BW-applicable agents, Brucella and Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), and continuing work on ricin and aflatoxin were not declared to the UN.
* Documents and equipment, hidden in scientists' homes, that would have been useful in resuming uranium enrichment by centrifuge and electromagnetic isotope separation (EMIS).
* A line of UAVs 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 km, 350 km 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 UN.
* Plans and advanced design work for new long-range missiles with ranges up to at least 1000 km - well beyond the 150 km range limit imposed by the UN. Missiles of a 1000 km range would have allowed Iraq to threaten targets through out the Middle East, including Ankara, Cairo, and Abu Dhabi.
* Clandestine attempts between late-1999 and 2002 to obtain from North Korea technology related to 1,300 km range ballistic missiles --probably the No Dong -- 300 km range anti-ship cruise missiles, and other prohibited military equipment.
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AUTHOR |
DATE |
| Excellent analysis... |
nonanarchist |
Sunday, Oct. 05, 2003 at 8:51 PM |
| Oops, forgot the link for the report. |
nonanarchist |
Sunday, Oct. 05, 2003 at 8:54 PM |
| Bump to the top... |
nonanarchist |
Monday, Oct. 06, 2003 at 1:29 PM |
| In that case, |
nonanarchist |
Monday, Oct. 06, 2003 at 1:50 PM |
| You can Bump into Walls if you want |
The Wall |
Monday, Oct. 06, 2003 at 2:22 PM |
| Kay = Spin and Disinformation |
Spookwatch |
Monday, Oct. 06, 2003 at 2:34 PM |
| You can lead a horse's ass to water... |
nonanarchist |
Monday, Oct. 06, 2003 at 5:30 PM |
| So True |
Jay Silverheels |
Monday, Oct. 06, 2003 at 7:05 PM |
| Jay: |
nonanarchist |
Monday, Oct. 06, 2003 at 9:54 PM |
| Stubborn Moron: Spook Outta Control in Desperation |
mediawatcher |
Wednesday, Oct. 08, 2003 at 7:39 PM |
| Sorry Jay, I mean David Kay |
mediawatcher |
Wednesday, Oct. 08, 2003 at 7:41 PM |
| Tabloids |
mags |
Wednesday, Oct. 08, 2003 at 7:42 PM |
| mediawatcher |
nonanarchist |
Wednesday, Oct. 08, 2003 at 8:17 PM |
| OneEyedMan |
KPC |
Wednesday, Oct. 08, 2003 at 8:27 PM |
| And Chicken Boy chimes in... |
nonanarchist |
Thursday, Oct. 09, 2003 at 7:19 AM |
| The David Kay report is proof that we were right to depose Saddam |
Barney |
Thursday, Oct. 09, 2003 at 7:28 AM |
| Barney, Barney...tsk, tsk. |
nonanarchist |
Thursday, Oct. 09, 2003 at 7:33 AM |
| Oh, yeah, sorry I must have been asleep |
Barney |
Thursday, Oct. 09, 2003 at 10:09 AM |
| read between the lines |
knickdog |
Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2003 at 4:02 AM |
| Mr. |
FPA von Dreger |
Tuesday, Nov. 04, 2003 at 7:22 PM |
| What we do know about Iraq |
Anti-Saddam |
Monday, Dec. 01, 2003 at 4:16 PM |
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