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| Axis of Evil |
| Inspecting an antique salami sandwich... |
| 2002-11-29 |
| The U.N. weapons hunters, sweeping through a disused bio-warfare installation Thursday, spotted a disconnected refrigerator. They moved in, threw open the door, and recoiled in disgust. The stench that wafted out may have come from a batch of harmless material left from a long-ago veterinary experiment. But it got the full treatment — a swab, a sample, analysis to come — in the second day of the painstaking U.N. search for any Iraqi doomsday arms. Yummy... After a four-year break, the international experts revisited two sites from Iraq's old weapons programs: a high-tech machining operation that could be key to any nuclear bomb-building, and a veterinary vaccine plant where deadly biological weapons were concocted a decade ago. They found open doors. "It is very good cooperation," the director of the al-Dawrah vaccine plant told reporters afterward. The lead inspectors seemed to agree. "It's a good start for the inspections," said Jacques Baute, team leader for the nuclear experts. So let's see how long it lasts... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |