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:: 6.12.2003 ::
Lifted from Tom Tomorrow's blog:
Interesting quote...
...from the Associated Press, March 17, 2003 (thanks to the alert reader who caught this one):
Iraq also handed over videotapes of mobile biological weapons laboratories to inspectors. Iraq says the videos show that the laboratories do not violate UN resolutions.
For what it's worth...
Indeed! Another gem:
You remember when [Secretary of State] Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons," Bush said in an interview before leaving today on a seven-day trip to Europe and the Middle East. "They're illegal. They're against the United Nations resolutions, and we've so far discovered two.
"And we'll find more weapons as time goes on," Bush said. "But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong. We found them."
Hm. What about those videotapes, sir?
And as to the likelihood that they are weapons labs at all, check out this item from the Observer:
One of those expressing severe doubts about the alleged mobile germ labs is Professor Harry Smith, who chairs the Royal Society's working party on biological weapons.
He told The Observer 'I am concerned about the [vehicles'] canvas sides. Ideally, you would want airtight facilities for making something like anthrax. Not only that, it is a very resistant organism and even if the Iraqis cleaned the equipment, I would still expect to find some trace of it.'
:: Deb 5:26 PM :: permalink ::
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