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BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Iraq’s ‘unaccounted for’ weapons
This quote is from the U.N.’s own inspection team; not the Americans. Now it gets even more serious. I think many countries were hoping for the best from Saddam, and hoping the UNMOVIC could provide that cover. It’s clear though that even in the early stages of their evaluation Iraq is playing serious games again. So the question is, do we (not just the U.S.) but the whole world want Iraq to disarm? So many people seem to forget that disarming was an obligation to the war ending in ‘91, after they invaded Kuwait. Reading between the diplomatic language this looks pretty damming.
“The commission has little or no confidence in Iraq’s accounting for proscribed items for which physical evidence is lacking or inconclusive, documentation is sparse or nonexistent, and coherence and consistency is lacking.
These include, for example: quantities and types of munitions available for biological weapons (BW) filling; quantities and types of munitions filled with BW agents; quantities and type of bulk agents produced; quantities of bulk agents used in filling; quantities of bulk agents destroyed; quantities of growth media acquired for the programme; and quantities of growth media used/consumed.
In addition, the commission has no confidence that all bulk agents have been destroyed; that no BW munitions or weapons remain in Iraq; and that a BW capability does not still exist in Iraq.”