No uranium, no munitions, no missiles, no programmes

[UpInArms]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=450121

As the first progress report from the Iraq Survey Group is released, Cambridge WMD expert Dr Glen Rangwala finds that even the diluted claims made for Saddam Hussein's arsenal don't stand up

05 October 2003

Last week's progress report by American and British weapons inspectors in Iraq has failed to supply evidence for the vast majority of the claims made on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction by their governments before the war.

David Kay, head of the Iraq Survey Group (ISG), told congressional committees in Washington that no official orders or plans could be found to back up the allegation that a nuclear programme remained active after 1991. Aluminium tubes have not been used for the enrichment of uranium, in contrast to US Secretary of State Colin Powell's lengthy exposition to the UN Security Council in February. No suspicious activities or residues have been found at the seven sites within Iraq described in the Prime Minister's dossier from September 2002.

The ISG even casts serious doubt on President Bush's much-trumpeted claim that US forces had found three mobile biological laboratories after the war: "technical limitations" would prevent the trailers from being ideally suited to biological weapons production, it records. In other words, they were for something else.

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[chasqui]

1. NO NUT'N

Just a big damn mess for college kids who did not know what they were getting themselves into!

[jimshoes]

2. Let's just hope David Kay's wife

doesn't work as an undercover agent. Bushco* doesn't like people who don't parrot the correct mantra.

[caledesi]

3. There's is no "there" there.

[Jack Rabbit]

4. I'd love to hear them say . . .

Nothing to see here. Let's move on!