AUGUST 2003 : (UK TELEGRAPH REPORT : DR. KAY'S WMD SURVEY TEAM FOUND THAT IRAQI LEADER HUSSEIN GAVE THE ORDER TO USE CHEMICAL WEAPONS) New revelations from the man leading the WMD survey team show that Saddam gave the order to fire his deadly weapons. Con Coughlin assesses the meaning of this little-acknowledged breakthrough Thousands of miles from the febrile atmosphere of Court 73 of the Royal Courts of Justice in London where Lord Hutton is conducting his inquiry into the death of Dr David Kelly, one of the British scientist's former colleagues was last week making yet another highly significant discovery in the hunt for Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction arsenal. - "Meanwhile, Saddam's secrets rise from the desert," by Con Coughlin, The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.) , 08/17/03
AUGUST 9, 2003 : (CIA & DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY STAND BY CONCLUSIONS IN MAY 28 WHITE PAPER "IRAQI MOBILE BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AGENT PRODUCTION PLANTS" IN SPITE OF THE NY TIMES REPORTER JEHL'S BEST EFFORTS TO MAKE THE CONCLUSIONS SOUND DOUBTFUL) Officials at the C.I.A. and the Defense Department said today that the two intelligence agencies still stood by the May 28 finding, which President Bush has cited as evidence that Iraq had a biological weapons program. - "Iraqi Trailers Said to Make Hydrogen, Not Biological Arms," by DOUGLAS JEHL, The New York Times, August 9, 2003