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2003-01-16 Axis of Evil

Inspectors Find Undeclared Iraq Warheads

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Posted by Steve 2003-01-16 01:29 pm|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 From Fox News:

"But former U.N. inspectors Tim Trevan and David Albright told Fox News that the presence of the casings -- even if empty -- would in fact put Saddam Hussein in violation of the U.N. resolution ordering Iraq to disarm.

Albright added that the pristine condition in which the casings were found implies that they were recently procured."

Posted by Patrick Phillips 2003-01-16 13:54:18|| 2003-01-16 13:54:18|| Front Page Top

#2 From Wash Post: Lt. Gen. Hossam Mohammed Amin, the chief Iraqi liaison officer to the inspection teams, said they were short-range shells imported in 1988 and mentioned in Iraq's December declaration. He expressed "astonishment" over "the fuss made about the discovery by a U.N. inspection team of 'mass destruction weapons.' It is no more than a storm in a teacup," Amin told a news conference hastily called after the U.N. announcement. Amin said the inspection team found the munitions in a sealed box that had never been opened and was covered by dust and bird droppings.
"When these boxes were opened, they found 122-mm rockets with empty warheads. No chemical or biological warheads. Just empty rockets which are expired and imported in 1988," Amin said, adding similar rockets were found by U.N. inspectors in 1997. Physicist David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security and a former nuclear weapons inspector in Iraq, said that the discovery would represent a violation "if Iraq knew that these warheads existed and they are for chemical weapons."

Posted by Steve 2003-01-16 14:45:20|| 2003-01-16 14:45:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Any guesses on where those warheads came from? NKor, maybe?

Posted by Raj 2003-01-16 16:15:20|| [angrycyclist.blogspot.com/] 2003-01-16 16:15:20|| Front Page Top

#4 My guess would be Belarus or Ukraine...

Posted by Fred 2003-01-16 18:43:07|| 2003-01-16 18:43:07|| Front Page Top

#5 unless it was a plant by special forces of some stuff captured in GWI.

Posted by john 2003-01-16 19:33:57|| 2003-01-16 19:33:57|| Front Page Top

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