UN inspectors: Saddam shipped out WMD before war and after

[kalian]

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_1.html

The United Nations has determined that Saddam Hussein shipped weapons of mass destruction components as well as medium-range ballistic missiles before, during and after the U.S.-led war against Iraq in 2003.

The UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission briefed the Security Council on new findings that could help trace the whereabouts of Saddam's missile and WMD program.

The briefing contained satellite photographs that demonstrated the speed with which Saddam dismantled his missile and WMD sites before and during the war. Council members were shown photographs of a ballistic missile site outside Baghdad in May 2003, and then saw a satellite image of the same location in February 2004, in which facilities had disappeared.

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Un-friggin-believable.... So, I wonder what the US has on the UN?
WHy the suddent 180 degree shift in "policy" by the UN with regards
to Iraq's "WMDs"? There's definitely a setup for an eventual invasion
of Syria...the October surprise...

[globalcitizen]

1. who was in control of Iraq at that time?

excuse me, but May 2003 was after Bush declared that the US was in charge and the UN signed off on it in June 2003.

[mn9driver]

2. The lead sentence isn't supported

by the rest of the article. All this stuff is being found in junkyards around the Middle East and Europe, replete with UN inspection tags still attached. Saddam's goodies -what little there is- are systematically being looted and sold for scrap. It's been going on for over a year now, and the US is doing nothing to stop it.

However, it provides a convenient rationale for why no WMD's are being found in Iraq.

[papau]

5. Very True - but will Fox note the lies when they repeat the headline?

Indeed will our corporate owned national media bother to see the lie, the partial truth, the dates, before they suck up to the GOP?

[the Kelly Gang]

3. I read this and it sounds very very dodgy

[xchrom]

4. they've tried this before

doesn't make it anymore true this time around.

[struggle4progress]

6. Status: debunked. Wingnut source. Garbled story.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=617497

[salin]

8. see post #5 in the linked thread

I had read this before about this linked source - but didn't put it together with this story and the source title name. Good ole DU collective memory comes handy.

[struggle4progress]

7. Please don't waste DU bandwidth posting this wingnut stuff.

worldtribune.com seems to be associated with the Moonies

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

9. Here's the actual UNMVIC Report

Says that parts from Iraqi missiles have been turning up in European scrapyards. So there are still no WMD's in Iraq -- they were scrapped and sold for parts before the war, with some materials being looted after the war because the U.S. was too busy protecting the oil fields. There's no way of knowing if any of the missiles scrapped after the war began were operable at all (once they're cut up, it's tough to tell).

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[markses]

10. Slight correction

You say

Says that parts from Iraqi missiles have been turning up in European scrapyards. So there are still no WMD's in Iraq -- they were scrapped and sold for parts before the war, with some materials being looted after the war because the U.S. was too busy protecting the oil fields.

The term "they" here appears to refer back to the antecedent WMDs. T%his is false. the UNMOVIC report does not mention any WMDs being turned up in European scrapyards. The report refers only to the missile components and other possible dual-use components, but does not mention WMDs. The missiles were ruled to exceed the maximum capacity allowed after the Gulf War, and this by a scarce 15km or so.

Your claim that "they were scrapped and sold before the war" is not supported in the UNMOVIC document, so I'm not sure why you would say that. There is no evidence that these parts were scrapped and sold before the war, the UNMOVIC report DOES NOT say that.

[Th1onein]

11. Someone insists on posting this article from the World Tribune!

The World Tribune is NOT a good source of ANYTHING, but especially NOT news! It's run by a guy, as a website ONLY, who was once part of a right wing think tank.