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| Axis of Evil |
| Iraq dossier: First breakdown |
| 2002-12-10 |
| Iraq's declaration on its banned arms programme appears to contain the names of foreign suppliers - threatening potentially embarrassing revelations about countries involved. The contents page of the mammoth document indicates that more than three dozen pages deal with sources which have supplied Iraq with materials to make weapons proscribed by the United Nations. Ha, ha, ha. Gee, I wonder which countries those (france)(germany)are? In the section on chemical weapons, some 34 pages list suppliers, eight pages cover contracts and agreements, and three pages deal with foreign technical assistance. This will be interesting reading. Wonder when it will be leaked? Countries including Bosnia, Yugoslavia and Ukraine have faced accusations of supplying military assistance to the Iraqis. These are minor players. The declaration makes one mention of a bomb, referring to a "terminated radiation bomb project" in a section dealing with chemical weapons. Put it in the wrong section, violation, violation! It also gives details of techniques used in the development of nuclear weapons - the kind of sensitive material the five nuclear powers on the UN Security Council did not want exposed to non-nuclear countries. The other 10 members of the Security Council are pissed they didn't get the plans. Experts from the UK, US, France, Russia and China are censoring potentially dangerous sections of the dossier before releasing a working version for wider distribution among the other members of the Security Council. "We got the bomb, you can't have them." The 12,000-page dossier, ordered by UN Security Council Resolution 1441, is meant to provide a complete account of Iraq's past and present weapons programme. New York Times new best seller in the fiction catagory. The bulk of the nuclear section, running to nearly 2,500 pages, deals with Iraq's nuclear weapons activities up until 1991. A smaller section covers the period between 1991 and 2000. As well as mentioning foreign contracts, the section dealing with Iraq's chemical weapons programme includes details of imported precursor chemicals - products used to manufacture other compounds. The chemical compounds ricin toxin, chlorine and phenol are mentioned. The declaration relating to Iraq's biological weapons programme details activities at named facilities, but does not mention any biological products. The largest section of the declaration deals with Iraq's ballistic missile programme. It covers work on missiles with a range exceeding 150 kilometres (93 miles), banned by UN resolutions following the 1991 Gulf War. These are the hardest to hide. Bet we have some good photos and locations of where they are. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #3 Saddam names names with the hope that a few of those names will try to hush those activities, divert attention and hope his buddies in the UN will drop this and go home? The UN runs Oil for Food, surely they are not involved? |
| Posted by: john 2002-12-10 20:11:36 |
| #2 The RIAA moved to seize NSA computers they accuse of duplicating CD's. |
| Posted by: Chuck 2002-12-10 15:16:27 |
| #1 No suprise with Syria on the council. |
| Posted by: PJ 2002-12-10 14:29:10 |