Nie Trink Wasser
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instead of posting selected pieces from news outlets, can someone please post the official transcript of Kay's findings ?
I'm tired of hearing the "If Bush finds WMD".
thanks
I'm tired of hearing the "If Bush finds WMD".
thanks
David Kay: "We have discovered . . . a clandestine network of laboratories and safehouses within the Iraqi Intelligence Service that contained equipment subject to U.N. monitoring and suitable for continuing chemical and biological weapons research. . . . A prison laboratory complex, possibly used in human testing of biological weapons agents, that Iraqi officials . . . were explicitly ordered not to declare to the United Nations. . . . Reference strains of biological organisms concealed in a scientist's home, one of which can be used to produce biological weapons. . . . New research on B(iological) W(eapon)-applicable agents . . . and continuing work on ricin and aflatoxin were not declared to the United Nations."
David Kay: "We have discovered . . . documents and equipment, hidden in scientists' homes, that would have been useful in resuming uranium enrichment by centrifuge and electromagnetic isotope separation."
David Kay: "We have discovered . . . continuing covert capability to manufacture fuel propellant useful only for prohibited SCUD variant missiles, a capability maintained at least until the end of 2001 and that cooperating Iraqi scientists have said they were told to conceal from the United Nations. . . . Plans and advanced design work for new long-range missiles with ranges up to at least 1,000 km -- well beyond the 150 km range limit imposed by the United Nations. Missiles of 1,000 km would have allowed Iraq to threaten targets throughout the Middle East. . . . 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 equipment."