Article

2005-11-06 Home Front: Politix

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Dan Darling 2005-11-06 09:23|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Come on Senator, get a life. The L-29 was no closely guarded secret. They've got cam footage of the damn thing flying racetracks.

Not for Defense - Secretary State Colin Powell, Feb 5, 2003

Saddam Hussein's intentions have never changed. He is not developing the missiles for self-defense. These are missiles that Iraq wants in order to project power, to threaten, and to deliver chemical, biological and, if we let him, nuclear warheads. Now, unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs. Iraq has been working on a variety of UAVs for more than a decade. This is just illustrative of what an EAV -- UAV would look like. This effort has included attempts to modify for unmanned flight the MiG-21 and, with greater success, an aircraft called the L-29. However, Iraq is now concentrating not on these airplanes but on developing and testing smaller UAVs, such as this. UAVs are well-suited for dispensing chemical and biological weapons. There is ample evidence that Iraq has dedicated much effort to developing and testing spray devices that [are] being adapted for UAVs. And in the little that Saddam Hussein told us about UAVs, he has not told the truth. One of these lies is graphically and indisputably demonstrated by intelligence we collected on June 27th last year. According to Iraq's December 7th declaration, its UAVs have a range of only 80 kilometers. But we detected one of Iraq's newest UAVs in a test flight that went 500 kilometers, nonstop, on autopilot in the racetrack pattern depicted here. Not only is this test well in excess of the 150 kilometers that the United Nations permits, the test was left out of Iraq's December 7th declaration.
The UAV was flown around and around and around in this circle, and so that its 80-kilometer limit really was 500 kilometers, unrefueled and on autopilot, violative of all of its obligations under 1441. The linkages over the past 10 years between Iraq's UAV program and biological and chemical warfare agents are of deep concern to us.

Iraq could use these small UAVs, which have a wingspan of only a few meters, to deliver biological agents to its neighbors or, if transported, to other countries, including the United States.

Posted by Besoeker 2005-11-06 10:35|| 2005-11-06 10:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Levin is cherry picking intel sources that support his claims but ignore the totality of the information. The testimony of one Iraqi was NOT the entire case against Saddam and not his WMD program. Al-Lib was but one of many bits of information that was used to assess Sadsams' program. What the Dems are going to expose is the institutional group-think that has been going on at the CIA, State, NSA, and DIA under the Clintonistas. Of course they will blame it all on Bush.

Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge 2005-11-06 10:52|| 2005-11-06 10:52|| Front Page Top

00:00 StrategyUnit
23:58 Zenster
23:57 3dc
23:54 3dc
23:49 Hupeasing Jatch2629
23:46 3dc
23:45 Zenster
23:34 steven
23:30 Zenster
23:22 Besoeker
23:13 Zenster
23:02 Besoeker
23:01 Captain America
23:00 Frank G
23:00 twobyfour
22:59 Besoeker
22:58 Captain America
22:58 Frank G
22:57 Barbara Skolaut
22:56 Captain America
22:54 Old Marine
22:54 Besoeker
22:51 Besoeker
22:49 Barbara Skolaut