[lit-ideas] Iraq WMD Disclosure
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:29:28 -0400
Political football over the disclosure of finding lots of
pre-91 Chemical and Nerve Gas Agents. Iraq did have a whole
bunch of stuff that could be sold on the black market. That
hardly matters now, does it? Unless the insurgency or
al-Qaeda finds and uses them.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/22/060622055545.07o4imol.html
Hundreds of chemical weapons found in Iraq: US intelligence
"Since 2003, Coalition forces have recovered approximately
500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or
sarin nerve agent," said an overview of the report unveiled
by Senator Rick Santorum and Peter Hoekstra, head of the
intelligence committee of the House of Representatives."
<snip>
A Pentagon official . . . said that all the weapons were
pre-1991 vintage munitions "in such a degraded state they
couldn't be used for what they are designed for."
The official, who asked not to be identified, said most were
155 millimeter artillery projectiles with mustard gas or
sarin of varying degrees of potency.
<snip>
The intelligence overview published Wednesday stressed that
the pre-Gulf War Iraqi chemical weapons could be sold on the
black market.
"Use of these weapons by terrorists or insurgent groups
would have implications for coalition forces in Iraq. The
possibility of use outside Iraq cannot be ruled out," it said.
<snip>
"But this says: Weapons have been discovered; more weapons
exist. And they state that Iraq was not a WMD-free zone,
that there are continuing threats from the materials that
are or may still be in Iraq," he [Hoekstra]said.
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