More Evidence Of Iraqi Ties To Al Qaeda And Islamic Terrorism
Full Citation:
Townhall.com - 2003.07.16
SADDAM PLUS AL-QAEDA = WMDS By Larry Elder
More distortions from FrontPage?
Hey, did Elder ever serve in the American Military,
or is he a ****head totalitarian ex-maoist chickenhawk
like horrorwitz?
Let's look into this less than a whole page of "material":
["
In 1998, Saddam Hussein kicked out the United Nations
inspectors. At the time, the inspectors concluded that
Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction,
including VX nerve gas and anthrax, and continued to
develop them.
"] {FrontPage Elder story cited above}
Did they? Not necessarily,
according to UNSCOM's own March 1998 Do***ent:
__________________________________________________ ______________
|
| UNSCOM MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS
| March 1998
| http://www.un.org/Depts/unscom/Achievements/achievements.html
|
| 1. UNSCOM has uncovered significant undeclared
| proscribed weapons programmes, destroyed elements of
| these programmes so far identified, including equipment,
| facilities and materials, and has been attempting to map
| out and verify the full extent of these programmes in
| the face of Iraq's serious efforts to deceive and
| conceal. UNSCOM also continues to try to verify Iraq's
| illegal unilateral destruction activities. The
| investigation of such undeclared activities is crucial
| to the verification of Iraq's declarations on its
| proscribed weapons programmes.
|
| 2. Examples of what has been uncovered since 1991
| include: the existence of Iraq's offensive biological
| warfare programme; the chemical nerve agent VX and other
| advanced chemical weapons capabilities; and Iraq's
| indigenous production of proscribed missiles engines.
| Following these discoveries, UNSCOM has directed and
| supervised the destruction or rendering harmless of
| several identified facilities and large quantities of
| equipment for the production of chemical and biological
| weapons as well as proscribed long-range missiles.
|
| 3. UNSCOM has supervised the destruction
| of the following proscribed items.
|
| MISSILE AREA:
|
| - 48 operational long-range missiles
| - 14 conventional missile warheads
| - 6 operational mobile launchers
| - 28 operational fixed launch pads
| - 32 fixed launch pads (under construction)
| - 30 missile chemical warheads
| - other missile support equipment and materials
| - supervision of the destruction of a variety
| of assembled and non-assembled "super-gun" components
|
| CHEMICAL AREA:
|
| - 38,537 filled and empty chemical munitions
| - 690 tonnes of chemical weapons agent
| - more than 3,000 tonnes of precursors chemicals
| - 426 pieces of chemical weapons production equipment
| - 91 pieces of related ****ytical instruments
|
|
| BIOLOGICAL AREA:
|
| - the entire Al-Hakam,
| the main biological weapons production facility
| - a variety of
| biological weapons production equipment and materials
|_________________________________________________ _______________
It says that UNSCOM had discovered
"significant undeclared proscribed weapons programmes",
but had destroyed the
"elements of these programmes so far identified".
It says that Iraq was
in violation of UN Security Resoloutions through their
"efforts to deceive and conceal"
weapons possession and production.
They also stated that Iraq's covert and Independent of UNSCOM
destruction of their banned weapons stocks was
"illegal unilateral destruction activities",
which made
"verification of Iraq's declarations
on its proscribed weapons programmes"
difficult, if not impossible for UNSCOM.
The do***ent then lists a very large amount of banned WMDs,
and WMD production facilities that UNSCOM had destroyed.
Nowher in this do***ent is there any mention of Iraq's
possession of WMDs in 1998, only that UNSCOM had not been
able to verify Iraq's claim of unilateral destruction of said
stocks.
Is Elder a Bushitter here,
or is his intellect bushallow?
Then the article cites
"Mansoor Ijaz, in an article in the National Review"
as its evidence for the connection between al Qaida and Saddam.
Bells should immediately be going off inside of any aware person's
head over this citation. Ijaz has lied about his education in the
past,
and his Invstment group has deep ties to past american CIA spooks.
Less than a credible source by itself.
All in all,
your "material" here is weak and lame.
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