We don't know where Iraq's bio weapons went, but we do know ....

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... where they came from:


"Gulf vets' lawyer targets firms for sales to Iraq"
http://www.forbes.com/iraq/newswire/2003/10/02/rtr1097597.html

AP report from Nov 2002, "Report: U.S. supplied the kinds of germs Iraq later used for biological weapons"
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002-09-30-iraq-ushelp_x.htm

"A look at U.S. shipments of pathogens to Iraq" (or, "Perhaps we should have attacked the American Type Culture Collection)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002-09-30-iraq-ushelp-list_x.htm

And if you missed this one, it<'s a must-read, "Experts Downplay Bioagent - The vial of bacteria found in Iraq probably was bought legally and its type has never been turned into a weapon, scientists say. [br />
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/complete/la-fg-wmd17oct17001431,0,2046627.story

(la times story reproduced it full at the CS Monitor as "Experts question significance of vial found in Iraq - Substance was never used as weapon"

http://www.cmonitor.com/stories/front2003/101703_weopaonsagian_2003.shtml

WASHINGTON — A suspicious sample of biological material recently found by U.S. weapons hunters in Iraq probably was purchased legally from a U.S. organization in the 1980s and is a substance that has never been successfully used to produce a weapon, experts said.

The discovery of the hidden vial of C. botulinum Okra B, which was revealed in an Oct. 2 interim report by chief U.S. weapons hunter David Kay, was highlighted in speeches by President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and other senior administration officials as proof that President Saddam Hussein's government maintained an illicit bio-weapons program before the war.

The significance of the vial is one of several elements of Kay's report that are being called into question by U.S. biowarfare experts and former United Nations weapons inspectors. Although most praised Kay for uncovering numerous cases in which Iraq hid suspicious equipment and activities from U.N. inspectors, they said the report appeared misleading in several areas.

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