U.N.: Weapons Equipment Missing in Iraq

[Barrett808]

U.N.: Weapons Equipment Missing in Iraq
Friday June 3, 2005 2:01 AM
By EDITH M. LEDERER
Associated Press Writer

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - U.N. satellite imagery experts have determined that material that could be used to make biological or chemical weapons and banned long-range missiles has been removed from 109 sites in Iraq, U.N. weapons inspectors said in a report obtained Thursday.

U.N. inspectors have been blocked from returning to Iraq since the U.S.-led war in 2003 so they have been using satellite photos to see what happened to the sites that were subject to U.N. monitoring because their equipment had both civilian and military uses.

In the report to the U.N. Security Council, acting chief weapons inspector Demetrius Perricos said he's reached no conclusions about who removed the items or where they went. He said it could have been moved elsewhere in Iraq, sold as scrap, melted down or purchased.

He said the missing material can be used for legitimate purposes. ``However, they can also be utilized for prohibited purposes if in a good state of repair.''

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5048966,00.html

[karlrschneider]

1. So nobody was keeping an eye on this stuff?

Or is this another 'aluminum tubes' thing...
:eyess:

[LynnTheDem]

5. That was stuff the UN had under lock & key...until bush invaded.

And then bush never bothered to order anyone to secure those sites the UN had under lock & key. The sites the UN told him to immediately secure.

bush sure was/is CONCERNED about "WMD" getting into terrorists' hands, wasn't/isn't he.

:sarcasm:

[0007]

2. Better give Halliburton a cavity check.....

[KoKo]

3. Okay....who did Bushies Pay Off for this one.....

Yawn.....

[LynnTheDem]

4. BUSH making us LESS SAFE.

As usual.

[IChing]

6. Be very Afraid, until peace comes

zen enough?

that's why they do what they do for domination




this a old news story, secure the pipeline not the weapons

[ovidsen]

7. It's bushCo's new improved 3 card monte!

Notice his fingers never leave his hands...

[leesa]

8. Cheney probably sold it at a garage sale.

[Roland99]

9. Is this a rehash of that 2 yr-old story about equipment showing in Jordan?

This doesn't seem like something new.

But, pretty sad seeing references to WMD-making equipment when we all know there weren't even WMD-related program activities.

[James T. Kirk]

10. They are retroactively planting the strory that Iraq had WMD equip.

[Karenina]

11. Good catch!

:thumbsup:

[James T. Kirk]

12. I was joking.

Iraq did have materials that could be used to make WMD.