Posted on 02/25/2003 8:40:44 PM PST by Indy Pendance
Iraq has admitted it has found a bomb with a possible biological warhead, and a stash of documents on weapons disposal, the chief UN inspector said yesterday.
Hans Blix, the head of the UN Monitoring Verification and Inspection Commission (Unmovic), described the declarations as "positive", and said they would be investigated further.
President Bush, however, dismissed the Iraqi admissions, which came in a series of letters to Mr Blix over the past few days, as token gestures designed to fend off the threat of invasion by giving the appearance of cooperation.
The president told journalists he expected to see Saddam Hussein "playing games" with the international community.
"He will all of a sudden find a weapon that he claimed he didn't have," Mr Bush said. "I suspect that he will try to fool the world one more time."
Iraqi weapons inspectors said they began excavating a weapons dump 100 kilometres south of Baghdad last week, and found it contained the remnants of munitions destroyed in 1991.
Mr Blix said he had received a letter in which the Iraqi government "tells us that they have found an R400 bomb containing a liquid in a site which is known to us, at which they did dispose of biological weapons before".
The Iraqi government claimed to have destroyed all its biological R400 stockpile in 1991, but as proof it provided only the diary of one officer who recounted the destruction of 157 bombs - 100 filled with botulinum toxin, 50 with anthrax and seven with aflatoxin.
Mr Blix said he had not received an official response from Baghdad on his demand that it begin destroying its Samoud missiles. In an interview with the US television network, CBS, to be broadcast today, President Saddam denies the missiles break UN rules, but Mr Blix said the remarks did not represent "an official response to us".
This is such a totally transparent effort to fool the UN security council and buy time...it doesn't even pass the laugh test.
More than anything, this should prove that Saddam HAS NOT been trying to comply with the UN resolutions because he clearly knew where these bombs were all along. Screw him!
Well, wouldn't you just know it; he opened the hatch and down at the bottom of a conrete well, he found this ... this ... this ... well, it wasn't his golf clubs.
All officialdom wondered, "Hm. Now how'd that get there?"
Aflatoxin doesn't kill right away... all it does is cause liver cancer YEARS after exposure to it. So why would they ever load up a bomb with that stuff? It is useless against an opposing army.
Aflatoxin is only useful in a scorched earth, spiteful situation and then only as a way to go down forever in infamy. You will still be defeated because the stuff won't stop an army.
Just loading that crap in a bomb should be reason enough to kick the snot out of the Iraqis, UN or no UN.
Well, wouldn't you just know it; he opened the hatch and down at the bottom of a conrete well, he found this ... this ... this ... well, it wasn't his golf clubs.
All officialdom wondered, "Hm. Now how'd that get there?
ROFL - good one!
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