[WL-law]

All of this makes perfect sense, yet the US press would rather hound an innocent US scientist (in the covert persuit of their pacifist agenda) rather than connect the dots back to Saddam. It's clear from all of this that Saddam was the genesis of the hijackers' interest in crop dusting, of the multiple findings of US-based muslims researching munincipal water supplies ---- and the nexus of Saddam and the anthrax cases lies in Atta's meeting in Prague with the Iraqi spy-diplomat, who likely passed to Atta the weapons-grade anthrax. All of this fits together, if the US press had the courage to put it together.

[Wallaby]

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Iraqi sites for bio-war revealed by defector James Bone in New York The Times (London) Overseas news; 17 July 12, 2002, Friday A DEFECTOR with first-hand knowledge of more than 30 secret biological weapons laboratories inside Iraq has played a key role in hardening Washington's policy towards Iraq. "The things he was describing all fit together. The locations all fit together. The guy was dead-on." Adnan Saeed al-Haideri, a civil engineer who maintained biological and chemical "clean rooms" for the Iraqi Government, is believed to be in a safe house in the Washington area after being debriefed by the Defence Intelligence Agency. Mr al-Haideri, the managing director of the Al Fao construction firm who escaped from Iraq last year, has given DIA officials details of secret biological and chemical weapons work taking place in at least eight locations. "My feeling, and I have dealt with this for about 11 years, is that he has been the most important and least talked about defector since the Gulf War," said Nabeel Musawi, who spent three weeks debriefing him in Bangkok late last year. "The things he was describing all fit together. The locations all fit together," said a former American weapons inspector in Iraq, who reviewed some of the material he brought out. "The guy was dead-on." Mr al-Haideri first became involved with Iraq's secret weapons programme in 1992 when he was invited to replace a German contractor doing work at Salman Pak, a large complex on a bend in the Tigris River that originally was home to Iraq's nuclear programme. He remained so until he was arrested in January last year when the authorities discovered that he was an Iraqi Kurd. He escaped Iraq after being freed, fearing that he was to be killed. Mr al-Haideri went public with some allegations - including the existence of a secret biological laboratory underneath the Saddam Hussein hospital in central Baghdad - in an interview with The New York Times while in exile in Bangkok in December. But he has since been moved to the United States where not even his family in Australia can reach him. Mr Musawi provided chilling new details of what Mr al-Haideri has told American Intelligence about how Saddam outwitted United Nations weapons inspectors and US surveillance efforts.

"His involvement was quite extensive after 1992," Mr Musawi said. "He was involved in building or rebuilding labs all over the capital, particularly on the southern side of the capital. "The things they have to use in these clean rooms are so specific," he said. "The tiles are chemically treated and have to be imported from Germany." As well as the lab beneath the Saddam Hussein hospital, Mr al-Haideri identified at least seven other locations where biological or chemical weapons work was going on and said there were more than 30 clean rooms in all. Some of the clean rooms were in well known complexes, such as the Rawanya presidential complex in Baghdad. Facilities at al-Taji, west of Baghdad, for instance, were rebuilt after the withdrawal of UN inspectors in 1998. At al-Misayad, which was extensively damaged in the Gulf War, only one building out of 30 was rebuilt so that it seemed as though the site was derelict. Other labs were built in new locations. One complex between Abu Ghraib and Mahmodia, south of Baghdad, works only at night for security reasons so that it appears to be unused. Another has been built in the Quraiyap residential district of Baghdad. Mr al-Haideri's company was instructed to build everything in duplicate, so that there was always a fall-back location if one was damaged. "For a biological programme, all you need is a sealed room four metres by four metres," Mr Musawi said.