Iraq to use bio-weapons 'soon'

AN Iraqi politician says President Saddam Hussein will soon use weapons of mass destruction.

Opposition Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmad Chalabi warned: "Saddam has advanced chemical weapons, he has advanced biological weapons, and he has produced and engineered biological weapons which contain a combination of viruses such as smallpox and ebola.

"Those are very, very dangerous weapons and I think, in his hands, he is bound to use them in terrorist action very soon."

He told Fox television the Iraqi president is "working very hard ... to position people and to move with biological and chemical terrorism across the important centers of the world".

"I think Saddam now is still uncertain the United States is going to move against him and he has strategies to deal with this.

"He has of course invited the weapons inspectors ... back to Iraq, but of course all of this is a delaying tactic."

Pressed on the source of his information, Chalabi said: "We have people who have worked in the (alleged Iraqi) program who have come out recently and have contacted us, and now they are in the United States and they are talking to the US government and they have demonstrated with unquestioned authority that Saddam does have biological weapons.

"They have described sites, ... described in detail the kind of material that is being introduced and also weaponising processes."

Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix ruled out a visit to Baghdad for talks on renewed arms inspections, as the war of words stepped up between Iraq and the administration of US President George W. Bush.

"Psychologically, I think it would be better that an official of my political standing does not go to Baghdad before they (the Iraqis) accept inspections," Blix told the Arabic-language Al-Hayat newspaper.

Holding talks in Baghdad with Iraqi authorities at this stage "will raise expectations without foundation," said the Swede who heads the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), which has never set foot in Iraq.

In a letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan late on Thursday, Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri extended an invitation to Blix and members of his team to discuss the possible resumption of weapons inspections, halted in December 1998.

But Blix said the chances of a possible war against Baghdad would go up if he were to visit but talks were unsuccessful. "The situation will be much worse if I visit Baghdad and the talks fail. We do not want hopes raised."

State-run Baghdad media has slammed the United States for rejecting Iraq's invitation to the chief UN weapons inspector

Iraq to use biological weapons soon.

Well that would solve our testing problems with our nuclear weapons. At least we get to play with our big toys, and IMHO, not soon enough, and not enough mushroom clouds can appease my appatite for terrorists refugee camps and terrorist supporting states.

He's going to use them soon? Well, no matter. We must not deal with Iraq until we have straightened out the problem between Israel and the Palestinians. /sarcasm [I personally believe that Brent Scowcroft is very wrong.]

i loved it when new sources cannot do something as basic as quote an interviewee without putting its own words in the quote. the addition of the phrase 'alleged iraqi' is totally unnecessary.

From an earlier thread,:

"It is time for Americans to acknowledge that none of the absurd fear scenarios promoted by the Spook-Media Complex are true. "

In context with this thread, does this include the Australian press as being "Spook-Media"?

It only makes sense that Saddam will try to wipe out Israel with bio missile attacks when he feels cornered. I think the only reason he didn't do it during the Gulf War was the assurances he got from the US, that he personally wouldn't be taken out.

That's my opinion of why Bush the elder left him there.

..."and he has produced and engineered biological weapons which contain a combination of viruses such as smallpox and ebola."

Big deal. According to our enlightened Eurosnot allies, we don't have the moral or legal right to preemptively stop Saddam. (end sarcasm)

Iraq already used thousands of pounds of bio weapons during the gulf war. They were shielded from view by the oil fires. There were early reports of canisters on the ground next to nearly every oil fire. Our WMD teams were quickly dispatched for a "cover-up" job. The results are now known as Gulf War Syndrome. This attack on Iraq is just "payback". A little web searching on this subject reveals quite a bit about this matter.

So Iraq wants to have a battle of Iraqi bio/chem weapons against the US & Israel. Let's see who has the better scientists and doctors. There will be many dead, but I'll bet that Pfizer and Merck will solve the problem pretty quick. Saddam should remember there is no cure for nuclear retailation.

When Saddam set those oil fields on fire, he didn't anticipate American hellfighters extinguishing them within weeks. For all he knew and cared, they'd burn for years and gradually poison Earth's entire atmosphere.

Enough hand-wringing. His evil incarnate cannot be taken out soon enough, along with any islamo-communist who would even pay him lip service.

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