'US knew Iraq was WMD free'

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By Ahmed Janabi

Sunday 15 February 2004, 20:45 Makka Time, 17:45 GMT

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Dr Khadduri, a former senior Iraqi nuclear scientist who worked for the Iraqi nuclear programme from 1968 to 1998, said there was a deliberate media blackout of evidence proving Iraq did not possess WMD, and that to redress the balance he had written a book in English to have his witness testimony made available to the world.

In 1997 Iraq delivered a report to UN weapons inspectors stating that Iraq's civil and military nuclear programme was brought to a halt. When UN inspectors left Iraq in 1998 there was sufficient evidence that Iraq was free from non-conventional weapons, according to Dr Khadduri.

"I was one of the people involved in writing a detailed report in 1997 about Iraq's civil and military nuclear programme

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Following the defection of Hussein Kamil, the godfather of Iraq's non-conventional weapons programme, to Jordan in 1995, he made it clear to Ralph Ekeus, head of the UN inspection team UNSCOM and US officials, that stockpiles of Iraq's biological and chemical weapons were destroyed on his orders," Khadduri said.

"They never revealed such information, because it did not serve their war agenda."

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[Kipper58]

1. Link, please?

n/t

[acmavm]

4. Sorry

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/38CDF820-17B8-47C3-85C8-ECDF602720CB.htm

[Martin Eden]

2. Of course the U.S. knew there was no WMD

Maybe not DUHbya, who possibly believes his own lies, but it's hard for me to believe that the more intelligent people in the Bush administration believed the propaganda they were spewing.

Even with some uncertainty concerning WMDs, it was obvious to all but the dimmest dittoheads that Iraq did not pose a threat while the UN inspectors were scouring the country.

Which is why the invasion was launched before the UN inspectors finished their job -- the real imminent threat was the likelihood they would find exactly what the ISG under David Kay eventually found: zero WMD. If Hans Blix had not been forced to pull his team out, the neocons would have lost their golden opportunity to send our troops in.

[Nancy Waterman]

3. Bingo! You got it exactly right!!

The real reason they pulled out the inspectors was to not lose the opportunity to invade. Connecting the dots...

[jbfam4]

5. you are exactly right

I kept saying that Hans Blix should have refused to leave so that Bush couldn't go to war. If the inspectors had refused to leave would Bush have shocked and awed Iraq?

[burythehatchet]

7. Yes he would have

they have no conscience

[tom_paine]

6. Obviously the Amerikan Empire and the Imperial Family knew

They just didn't care.

After all, the chance to loot TWO COUNTRIES (Iraq and Imperial Amerika) over the same pretext doesn't come around every day.

I mean we're talking TENS OF BILLIONS in stolen loot!

Of course they knew. A blind person could see it (which is why the Imperials have invested many billions of dollars in their Party-Loyal Right-Wing Sub-Media, to create enough of a smokescreen of lies, half-truths, fabrications and false allegations wrapped around the tiniest grain of truth, so that the obvious is obfuscated.

Yes, just like the Nazi and the Soviets did with THEIR Party-Loyal Sub-Medias.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.