What To Say About WMD

The Intellectual Conservative ^ | 13 February 2004 | Brian S. Wise

[KingofQue]

Still missing based on the UNSCOM report to the UN Security Council in January 1999,
when the UN inspectors left Iraq in 1998, they had been unable to account for:


• up to 360 tons of bulk chemical warfare agents, including 1.5 tons of VX nerve agent;


• up to 3,000 tons of precursor chemicals, including approximately 300 tons which,
in the Iraqi chemical warfare program, were unique to the production of VX;


• growth media procured for biological agent production (enough to produce
over three times the 8,500 litres of anthrax spores Iraq admitted to UN inspectors to having manufactured);


• over 30,000 special munitions for delivery of chemical and biological agents;


• 20 al-Hussein missles with a range of 650 km, in violation
of UN Security Council Resolution 687 (Iraq had told UNSCOM that it filled these warheads with anthrax and botulinum);


• 2,850 tons of mustard gas, 210 tons of tabun, and 795 tons of sarin and cyclosarin;


• development of the Al-Samoud short-range missle (which had the capability to fly beyond the 150 km allowed by UN resolutions)

I have no idea where Saddam put this stuff. It will be revealed eventually.