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?