Your problem is you misunderstood the above (poorly worded, I grant you) sentence.
It's not talking about banned long range missles. It's material that could be used to MAKE banned long-range missles.
Found in boxes labeled "ACME LONG-RANGE MISSILES". Some assembly required.
It's not talking about banned long range missles. It's material that could be used to MAKE banned long-range missles.
Not to be contentious, but I do recall that after the fall of Bagdhad, OUR Military investigations teams actually DID discover actually manufactured "Banned" Long-Range missiles, and drums of chemicals and biotoxins labeled "pesticides"...the missile warheads found were also equipped with dual-stage heads...like the IED Sarin heads that were found after one was set off improperly on a roadside.
Also there were those German made Mobile Weapons labs, you remember them...the ones with the secret areas hidden inside with all the pipes and such, that the Marxist-Stream Media tried to p[ass off as "Hydrogen Generators" for baloons...mn, the media whores REALLY got revealed in this war!
Of course, the Fourth Reich...er Estate did NOT try to delve too deep into THAT bit o' evidence!
My point is that UNMOVIC actually had so-called "banned" items in existence....categorized them, and put a U.N. seal on them instead of destroying them. This was because our "allies" France, Germany, Russia, and China were subverting the 1991 embargo on all these materials. The PROFIT they made was on the backs of OUR soldiers..I for one will NEVER again buy a French or German product due to their perfidity and duplicity!