Inspectors: Iraq Weapons Sites Destroyed

[RamboLiberal]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&u=/ap/20040607/ap_on_re_mi_ea/un_weapons_inspectors_1&printer=1

A number of sites in Iraq (news - web sites) known to have contained equipment and material that could have been used to produce banned weapons and long-range missiles have been either cleaned out or destroyed, U.N. weapons inspectors said Monday.

The inspectors' report said they didn't know whether the items, which had been monitored by the United Nations (news - web sites), were at the sites during the U.S.-led war in Iraq.

U.N. inspectors were pulled from Iraq just before the war began in March 2003 and the United States has refused to allow them to return, instead deploying its own teams to search for weapons of mass destruction.

"It is possible that some of the materials may have been removed from Iraq by looters of sites and sold as scrap," the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission said in its quarterly report to the U.N. Security Council.

UNMOVIC said its experts and a team from the International Atomic Energy Agency, which was responsible for dismantling Iraq's nuclear program, were jointly investigating items from Iraq that were discovered in a scrap yard in the Dutch port of Rotterdam.

[daleo]

1. Coverup?

Perhaps this stuff was so useless that Bushco decided it would be best to just get rid of it, rather than have it surface and prove to the world what a joke the whole pretext for war was.

Of course, Saddam could have planned to reconstitute his WMD program, after cleverly hiding it among the junkyards of the planet.

[struggle4progress]

2. "Destroy the sites! Don't want the UN to show nothing's there!"

[Bluebear]

3. Hush now, this is a national month of mourning!

Show some respect and stop paying attention to any news other than the funeral protocol. Thank you.

[tlcandie]

4. They were moved and stored until the next dictator was implemented..

nt