- Do we see the pattern here? Remember this...?
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- Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs CIA Report
October 2002
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- "Iraq has continued its weapons of mass destruction
(WMD) programs in defiance of UN resolutions and restrictions. Baghdad
has chemical and biological weapons as well as missiles with ranges in
excess of UN restrictions; if left unchecked, it probably will have a nuclear
weapon during this decade."
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- http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/iraq_wmd/Iraq_Oct_2002.htm#01
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- And...
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- September 2002
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- Scott Ritter, former marine officer who spent seven years
hunting and destroying Saddam's arsenal, on Iraq's WMD program:
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- "Even if Iraq had somehow managed to hide this vast
number of [chemical] weapons from inspectors, what they are now storing
is nothing more than useless, harmless goo... Iraq has no biological weapons
today, because both the anthrax and botulinum toxin are useless... Iraq
doesn't have the capability to do long-range ballistic missiles... We can
say unequivocally that the industrial infrastructure needed by Iraq to
produce nuclear weapons had been eliminated... for Iraq to have reconstituted
it would require undertaking activities eminently detectable by intelligence
services."
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- http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,794771,00.html
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- And Now...
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- Iran Vigorously Pursued WMD Programs - CIA
- November 8, 2003
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- "Iran 'vigorously' pursued programs to produce nuclear,
chemical and biological weapons and sought help from Russia, China, North
Korea and Europe, a CIA report said on Friday."
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- http://www.rense.com/general44/sdsir.htm
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- and this latest story...
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- UN Has 'No Evidence' Iran Plans Nuclear Weapons
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- By Margaret Neighbour
The Scotsman - UK
11-11-3
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- The United Nations nuclear watchdog agency has found
"no evidence" that Iran is trying to make nuclear weapons but
cannot say, at this time, that Tehran's programmes are strictly peaceful,
diplomats citing a confidential agency report said last night.
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- The diplomatic sources said the report of the International
Atomic Energy Agency criticised Iran for hiding nuclear activities that
led to suspicions it was trying to make such weapons.
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- But the report, drawn up by IAEA director general Mohamed
El Baradei, also says Iran has been co-operating with the agency since
September, when the IAEA's board of governors set a deadline for it to
disclose its past clandestine programmes.
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- The agency sent the report yesterday to its board of
governors, which meets next week to discuss Iran and decide whether to
declare the country in violation of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.
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- If Tehran is found to have contravened the treaty, the
board is expected to pass the issue to the UN's security council, which
could impose sanctions.
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- The US is expected to push to have Iran declared in violation
of the treaty at the board meeting.
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- ©2003 Scotsman.com
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- http://www.news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1243202003
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