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| Saddam ’Hiding The Weapons In Mosques’ |
| 2002-11-18 |
| American intelligence has intensified its information-gathering campaign about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programme as Washington prepares to provide the inspectors with the data to counter Baghdad's concealment efforts. In a significant breakthrough, the claims of Adnan al-Haideri, an Iraqi civil engineer who defected to America last year and revealed how Saddam was building underground vaults to hide chemical and biological weapons laboratories, have been backed up by US spy plane missions. The aircraft are fitted with a device that detects underground voids - such as bunkers and tunnels - through variations in the earth's gravitational field. The device found a void where Mr al-Haideri said there was a subterranean nerve-agent laboratory. And there will a much bigger "void" there later. Several scientists responsible for Iraq's WMD programme have been shifted out of the country on false passports already to prevent the inspectors questioning them, leading exiles have told The Telegraph. In the past fortnight two scientists have been sent to Yemen, two elsewhere in the Middle East and one each to Romania, Malaysia and Singapore, according to the Iraqi National Accord (INA), an opposition group with good contacts within the regime. U.N. resolution says we can take them outside the country to interview them. Since they are already outside Iraq, that should make it easier, if we can find them. Dr Ayad Alawi, the INA's leader, also disclosed that the regime was moving documents and materials from weapons laboratories and a ballistic-missile site into hospitals, schools and mosques in the northern cities of Mosul and Kirkuk. These should be the first sites looked at, and where the inspection teams won't be let in due to "sensitivity". The concealment operation is being co-ordinated by Brig Gen Walid al-Nasri, a trusted aide from Saddam's home region of Tikrit who reports directly to Qusay Hussein, the dictator's second son and head of his powerful State Security Organisation. Qusay's the smart one. An official of the US Defence Intelligence Agency said: "They have trained large numbers of personnel in how to deal with an intrusive inspection regime." These "clean-up" squads have developed methods for rapidly cleaning and sterilising equipment such as fermenters and centrifuges used to manufacture and store chemical and biological agents. "Expendable" is what these guys are. I don't think they will have much in the way of protective gear. The plan is that US intelligence will provide the UN inspectors with the "killer" data once America is ready for the military finale. The inspectors would then make unannounced spot checks while the US kept the sites under surveillance relayed live by unmanned spy drones. This is when the shit will really hit the fan. We'll have video of the inspectors at the front gate and the trucks going out the back. Predator will follow the trucks to their new home, and we start over until someone blinks. Washington believes the Iraqis will be seen either trying to conceal weapons material or will be caught out. The UN Security Council will be allowed a short time to debate, but the Pentagon will already have launched the final, brief countdown to war. 10..9..8..7. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #4 Hmm, good point, Steve. However, I believe we made a few Muslim friends in Yugoslavia, and they might help us out here??? |
| Posted by: Ptah 2002-11-19 07:42:08 |
| #3 RE:The HEAD of the IAEA is an Egyptian. Right, do you really expect him to find anything? |
| Posted by: Steve 2002-11-18 15:51:53 |
| #2 GOTCHA!!! *does happy dance* As for the mosques: The HEAD of the IAEA is an Egyptian. He can go in himself and do a spot check. If he doesn't come out... Bombs away... |
| Posted by: Ptah 2002-11-18 13:39:48 |
| #1 "The aircraft are fitted with a device that detects underground voids - such as bunkers and tunnels - through variations in the earth's gravitational field." We have graviometers that sensitive? Wow. |
| Posted by: Tripartite 2002-11-18 13:26:36 |