Reference point: Saddam's WMDs and UNMOVIC.
Thanks, auzerais!
Posted on 7/7/2006, 11:49:27 PM by auzerais
Iraqi Documents: UNMOVIC Knew Of Renewed WMD Efforts
Continuing my review of the many documents released from the DocEx files over the last two days, I found yet another interesting piece of information regarding Saddam Hussein's pursuit of WMD. In a summary of a larger document, the translators found that Iraq had restarted its processing of castor-bean extraction, from which ricin can be developed -- and that UNMOVIC discovered it in December 2002.
From CMPC-2003-003766-HT.pdf, with line breaks and emphases mine:
Ricin toxin is found in the bean of the castor plant. UNMOVIC inspections since December 2002 have verified that the bombed caster oil extraction plant at Fallujah III has been reconstructed on a larger scale. Undeclared BW agents, there are a number of microorganisms and toxins that have been developed as BW agents by several countries, including Bacillus anthracis (anthrax), Clostridium bottalinum toxin, Yersinia pestis (plague), Francisella tularensis (tularemia), Brucella species (Brucellosis) Coxiella burnetti (Q fever) and Variola major (smallpox). Drying of BW Agents, BW agents are produced by a process that usually results in a liquid product, for example bacteria in an aqueous suspension, or toxins in an aquesous or organic solution.
Bacterial BW agent production, this requires certain equipment, typically a fomenter and down stream processing equipment such as separators and settling tanks. Also required for the production of bacterial BW agents are nutrients that are dissolved in water and added to the fermenter. The lack of supporting documentation makes it difficult for UNMOVIC to confirm Iraq's figures on the quantities of bacterial BW agent produced.
Genetic Engineering and Viral Research. Genetic Engineering, a process whereby an organism's genetic material is modified, has many medical and industrial applications. BW Agent Stimulants are chemicals or microorganisms that have very similar characteristics and properties to a biological warfare agent.
UNMOVIC inspections and Iraqi declarations confirm that Iraq continues working with organisms that could be used as BW agent stimulates. The documents display after each section the actions that Iraq could take to help in resolving the issue and convincing the UN inspection teams that the activity have stopped or were fruitless and so on.
So here we have confirmation that Iraq continued to work on WMD, and that the new UNMOVIC inspections verified that. We had previously heard from the mainstream media that UNMOVIC only found that the Iraqis still refused to cooperate fully with the inspections, but this puts a little different light on the situation as the UN found it as they debated how to deal with Iraq. Even with Saddam actively pursuing WMD, as it turns out, they refused to take any action except to propose extended inspections.
Another point seems rather interesting here. The third paragraph seems to match up pretty well with the CIA/DIA description of the mobile laboratories discovered shortly after the invasion of Iraq:
Common elements between the source’s description and the trailers include a control panel, fermentor, water tank, holding tank, and two sets of gas cylinders. One set of gas cylinders was reported to provide clean gases—oxygen and nitrogen—for production, and the other set captured exhaust gases, concealing signatures of BW agent production. The discovered trailers also incorporate air-stirred fermentors, which the source reported were part of the second-generation plant design.
Once again, it looks like Saddam's own documentation makes it clear that he had never stopped working on WMD programs. This time, it also shows that UNMOVIC and the UNSC knew it.
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Hmmm. The drip, drip, drip of this information is becoming more steady now three years after the fact. I wonder why?
I dunno but it should have been part of the SSCI.
Ping
I realize that FR is the premier spot for important information, but I do hope each Freeper will do their part to disseminate this to all of their favorite bloggers, talkshow hosts, etc.
Was Scott Ritter on the UNMOVIC team?
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Ah....well, that answers my question....LOL
Do you know if Scott Ritter was with UNMOVIC?
You know, Txsleuth, I really don't remember. I think he was.
I think so also...and this document COULD either go to undermining HIS whole crapola crying...OR, maybe for some reason, his whole crying act is BECAUSE he knew about this...
Maybe he was being threatened. He did have a relationship with that Iraqi man...and actually spook at one of Saddam's meetings, IIRC.
Thanks for the PING
Ricin...from the castor plant.
Research on it from Saddam.
Guess what Qaeda contact,al Zarqawi, was doing at Salmon Pak....anyone?
Let those who think they stand take heed lest they fall.
I'll just never forget how strongly Scott Ritter took Congress to the woodshed years and years ago and then I think it was Biden who said that Ritter was acting above his paygrade and treated him horribly.
Then Ritter did a 180 and we've never really known why. Blackmail? Money for his movie? Who knows. But people don't change like that so completely without some trauma, imo.
I have always suspected there is something a lot more shady (if it is possible) about Ritter than just his fetish for young girls..
Last I heard...which was quite a while ago...he was living in London..
The documents are building the case.
Scott Ritter is dirty as a French Pig!!! He was on the extra stupid PBS "Frontline" show last week that was one of the absolutely worst pieces of crap propoganda sliming of the Bush/Cheney administration I've ever seen on US TV of ANY administration in my nearly 60 years of watching TV!!!
Dear Senators and Congresspeople -- about the midterm elections...
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