Author: Gordon

Heh.

Update: New York Times: “No WMD Found in Iraq”. Hmm. So what are the

• Clandestine network of laboratories and safehouses within the Iraqi Intelligence Service that contained equipment subject to UN monitoring and suitable for continuing CBW research.
• Prison laboratory complex, possibly used in human testing of BW
  agents, that Iraqi officials working to prepare for UN inspections
  were explicitly ordered not to declare to the UN.
• Reference strains of biological organisms concealed in a
  scientist’s home, one of which can be used to produce biological
  weapons.

• New research on BW-applicable agents, Brucella and Congo Crimean
  Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), and continuing work on ricin and
  aflatoxin [that] were not declared to the UN.
• Documents and equipment, hidden in scientists’ homes, that would
  have been useful in resuming uranium enrichment by centrifuge and
  electromagnetic isotope separation (EMIS).
• Line of UAVs not fully declared at an undeclared production
  facility and an admission that they had tested one of their
  declared UAVs out to a range of 500 km, 350 km beyond the
  permissible limit.
• Continuing covert capability to manufacture fuel propellant
  useful only for prohibited SCUD variant missiles, a capability that
  was maintained at least until the end of 2001 and that cooperating
  Iraqi scientists have said they were told to conceal from the UN.
• Plans and advanced design work for new long-range missiles with
  ranges up to at least 1000 km – well beyond the 150 km range limit
  imposed by the UN. Missiles of a 1000 km range would have allowed
  Iraq to threaten targets through out the Middle East, including
  Ankara, Cairo, and Abu Dhabi.
• Clandestine attempts between late-1999 and 2002 to obtain from
  North Korea technology related to 1,300 km range ballistic missiles
  –probably the No Dong — 300 km range anti-ship cruise missiles,
  and other prohibited military equipment.

(all from Andrew Sullivan)

chopped liver?

Now that I’ve finally got Moveable Type working right, I think I will try to use this site for better communication with people (i.e. get more hits :-)

For some of you this post will be redundant, and you don’t need to read any further. For those of you who thought I dropped off the face of the planet, well, I’m back! A brief update on my life so far:

I’m still working as a senior software developer at Axonwave Software (formerly Gavagai Technology), the company I helped start. I live in Fraser Heights, Surrey, BC, and I attend Peace Portal Alliance church in White Rock (where, of course, I sing on a worship team and in the choir).

In my spare time I practice Taekwondo, read a lot, do research into operating systems and space flight simulation, roller-blade and sometimes I’m even seen swing dancing.

Health-wise I’m doing great. No heart problems for the last couple of years, and although I put my back out (again!) rather badly at the beginning of the summer, it’s fine now.

My bro Kent lives in North Battleford, SK, where he’s launching into a career as a classical singer (he’s singing Messiah with the Saskatchewan Symphony this fall).

My little sister Carolyn is a doctor! She graduated from UBC this spring and moved to London, ON to do her residency in family practice.