Antrax and nervegas VX discovered in Iraq

[L@mplighterM]

Lagt på www.berlingske.dk den 2. marts 2003 kl. 18:09.
Stort parti miltbrand og nervegas fundet i Irak
Nye undersøgelser i Irak førte i dag til opdagelsen af en stor mængde miltbrand-bakterier og den forbudte nervegas VX. Det oplyste en højtstående irakisk embedsmand.
FN's våbeninspektører har i årevis søgt at få klarhed over, hvor disse dødelige midler befandt sig.
/ritzau/AFP
http://www.berlingske.dk/udland/artikel:aid=259384/

Danish press is reporting that large quantities of anthrax and VX have been found in Iraq according to a spokesperson from the Iraqi Embassy.

Lagt på www.berlingske.dk den 2. marts 2003 kl. 18:09.
Stort parti miltbrand og nervegas fundet i Irak
Nye undersøgelser i Irak førte i dag til opdagelsen af en stor mængde miltbrand-bakterier og den forbudte nervegas VX. Det oplyste en højtstående irakisk embedsmand.
FN's våbeninspektører har i årevis søgt at få klarhed over, hvor disse dødelige midler befandt sig.
/ritzau/AFP
http://www.berlingske.dk/udland/artikel:aid=259384/

Danish press is reporting that large quantities of anthrax and VX have been found in Iraq according to a spokesperson from the Iraqi Embassy.

Other major news sites does not have the story so far. Odd!

[cerulean]

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6067227%255E1702,00.html
Anthrax, VX uncovered in Iraq
From correspondents in Baghdad
March 03, 2003

SIGNIFICANT quantities of anthrax and VX nerve agent have been accounted for during ongoing excavations in Iraq, Iraqi presidential adviser Amer al-Saadi has said.

He said excavations at the al-Aziziya air base, 104km south-west of Baghdad, had also uncovered bomb fragments.

Iraq insists it destroyed tonnes of toxic agents unilaterally in 1991.

The discovery was announced as UN biological experts arrived for talks with Iraqi authorities.

"So far we have reached a figure not quite 157 (tonnes of anthrax), but we are nearing it, there is work in progress," Saadi told a news conference.

"So far, more than eight (bombs) have been found which were intact, not perforated, which could be tested for the material inside."

Saadi also said there was "another question with the anthrax, which is the bulk material that was left over, that was unfilled and that was unilaterally destroyed also".

The material "is in a site called al-Hakam, and this is what the meeting (with the UN experts) this evening is all about".

"The destruction site is known and it is still undisturbed and we could look for DNA signatures of those materials and perhaps we could quantify this material, not just qualitative tests, but quantitative tests to estimate how much was destroyed there," Saadi said.

"That, in addition to the 157 tonnes in al-Aziziya, will make the total."

He said 1.5 tonnes of VX still to be accounted for "was unilaterally destroyed in a dumping site near al-Muthanna State Establishment, and we have made analyses which strongly indicate that the total material was destroyed there".

That was also being discussed in the talks, he said.

"The results that we have made so far indicate something which is near, quite near, that total (that) was destroyed there."

Agence France-Presse

[L@mplighterM]

It’s difficult to know exactly what kind of a game Iraq is playing but it seems to be one that turns into delays for military action. All Hussein had to do was to inform his scientists and military that they had to cooperate with the UN inspectors to the fullest or else.

This nonsense of finding a hundred missiles or so and digging up anthrax and nerve gas is nothing more than stall tactics. It seems to me that someone is engaged in some twisted 11th hour game with the UN.

Furthermore it was clear to me from Blix’s report (about a week ago) to the UN that they had dumped the WMD in the desert, when that answer becomes unsatisfactory they all of sudden recall having buried missiles containing WMD at some military site.

Next week it’ll most likely be another story.