Mcleanhatch said:
WMD have not been found YET, although 2 mobile biological weapons labs have been found, 1 nuclear reactor/centerfuge has been recovered, and sooner or later the rest of the weapons will be found.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/05/08/wirq308.xml
Suspected mobile weapons lab found
By David Rennie in Washington
(Filed: 08/05/2003)
Allied experts are studying an Iraqi military vehicle which closely matches a defector's descriptions of mobile biological weapons laboratories, the Pentagon said last night.
The trailer, found in northern Iraq, was "very similar" to the lorry-mounted laboratories described by Colin Powell, the secretary of state, at the United Nations in February, said Stephen Combone, a senior Pentagon official.
It was painted in military colours and carried on a heavy tank transporter. It contained a mobile fermenter for growing cultures and a system to capture and compress exhaust gases.
The gas recovery system appeared designed to prevent traces of biological production from leaking and would not normally be found in legitimate facilities, Mr Combone said.
The trailer was still being checked in Baghdad but appeared to have been scoured clean by an ammonia-like caustic compound.
"It was pretty thoroughly washed," Mr Combone said.
The equipment was similar in configuration and design to mobile biological agent laboratories that US intelligence learned about before the war from an Iraqi scientist, he said.
Vice-Adml Jake Jacoby, head of the Defence Intelligence Agency, said an informant had said similar mobile facilities had been used to make three agents, believed to be anthrax, botulism and staphylococcus.
Experts will now dismantle the trailer to do more thorough tests, Mr Cambone said.
At the UN, Mr Powell said Iraq had at least 18 tractor trailers equipped for use as laboratories.
http://www.cnn.com/virtual/editions/europe/2000/roof/change.pop/frameset.exclude.html
White House: Centrifuge parts back case on Iraq
Discovery shows difficulty in locating weapons, official says
From Suzanne Malveaux
CNN Washington Bureau
Friday, June 27, 2003 Posted: 6:25 AM EDT (1025 GMT)
Parts of a gas centrifuge system for enriching uranium were dug up in Baghdad.
VIDEO
CNN's Mike Boettcher spoke to the Iraqi scientist who led U.S. officials to the nuclear centrifuge buried in his back yard.
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CNN's David Ensor on a former Iraqi scientist giving the CIA nuclear centrifuge parts and plans buried in his rose garden.
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• Nuke program parts unearthed
• IAEA reaction
• Institute for Science and International Security: Iraq
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The White House said Thursday that the CIA's procurement of centrifuge parts in Iraq -- equipment needed in a nuclear weapons program -- bolsters President Bush's assertion that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
CNN reported Wednesday that the CIA said it has critical parts of a key piece of Iraqi nuclear technology -- parts needed to develop a bomb program -- that were dug up in Baghdad. (Full story, Interactive: How uranium is enriched)
Iraqi scientist Mahdi Obeidi said he unearthed the parts in his back yard in Baghdad. Obeidi said he had hidden them beneath a rosebush 12 years ago under orders from Saddam Hussein's son Qusay and Saddam's then-son-in-law, Hussein Kamel.
CNN Security Correspondent David Ensor reports that the concealment of such materials -- and failure to disclose their presence -- would have constituted violations of Security Council regulations under U.N. sanctions in place in 1991.
National Security Council spokesman Sean McCormack said the equipment from Obeidi's back yard are "what might be needed to build a centrifuge, concealed over time as part of a plan to reconstitute a nuclear weapons program after the [International Atomic Energy Agency] inspections were over."
The International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday the parts found in Baghdad are not "evidence of a smoking gun" proving Iraq had a current weapons of mass destruction program. (IAEA reaction)
McCormack also said the discovery underscores the tremendous difficulty the United States faces in being able to find Saddam's possible weapons of mass destruction.
The Bush administration has come under fire for not producing any weapons so far, but officials insist they are confident the United States will find proof that Iraq had weapons that posed an imminent threat.
"This illustrates the extreme challenge that the coalition faces in Iraq to find weapons of mass destruction, which were designed to be hidden from inspectors for years," McCormack said.
The White House also stressed the importance of Obeidi approaching U.S. officials.
"It's significant that he came forward to us. We hope others out there are encouraged by Obeidi coming forward," McCormack said.
The administration has argued it could not get reliable information previously because Iraqis feared reprisals from Saddam.
McCormack also said Obeidi told U.S. officials he had not been candid with inspectors from the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency in the past.
"Dr. Obeidi said in an interview as recently as 2002 he did not offer information to IAEA inspectors about the equipment in his back yard. ...," McCormack said. "We hope he's an example of others who will come forward to share what they know."
2-0-Sixx said:
You honestly believe bush is protecting us?
Have you ever considered the fact that bush is duing more harm then good?
Last time I checked the worlds support of the US has dropped dramatically since the war in Iraq started. .
1. yes
2. he isnt
3. who cares his job is to protect us "americans" regardless of what the"world" thinks
