June 03, 2005

U.N.: Weapons Equipment Missing in Iraq - Yahoo! News

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.
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The commission, known as UNMOVIC, previously reported the discovery of some equipment and material from the sites in scrapyards in Jordan and the Dutch port of Rotterdam.

But...but...the Left and the Dems told us that President Bush and PM Blair lied about Saddam having WMDs!
You don't suppose some of their intelligence was right, do you?!?
Shocking.
I love being on the side of the Good Guys and one of these days, we're going to find that bad stuff and hopefully not by being on the wrong end of an attack.
The Dems, Hans Blix* and Scott Ritter can all bite me after this report--I'm sick of their anti-Bush spin.

*BTW, if you haven't seen the movie "Team America" and the nice treatment Hans Blix, inter alia, gets in that, you haven't lived fully yet!