The smoking gun?

[[AK]Choozoo]

As reported by the Telegraph, a British News source....

The fall of the Baghdad wall
(Filed: 19/01/2003)


The teams of UN inspectors sent to investigate Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction arsenal made a stunning breakthrough last week when they uncovered evidence of Iraq's attempts to build an atom bomb. Con Coughlin and Julian Coman in Washington report


T hursday evening turned into a wild night at the al-Hyatt hotel in Baghdad, for the 150 or so United Nations weapons inspectors who have made it their home.

Jordanian-imported wine flowed, glasses of whiskey were handed round and, as one witness put it, "the men from the UN with their blue baseball caps and grey faces were suddenly smiling".

During their two-and-a-half month stay in Iraq, the inspectors have not developed a reputation for holding late-night parties. Almost all are soberly in bed by 11pm, in order to be up the next day at 6.30 for a breakfast of fried eggs, omelettes or bread rolls. But this was a special occasion.

During the day, the United Nations Monitoring Verification and Inspection Commission (Unmovic), had made the first significant find since its arrival in Iraq.

At the Ukhaider weapons depot, 90 miles south-west of Baghdad, inspectors had discovered 12 hidden artillery shells designed to carry chemical weapons. "We finally found something shaped like a weapon and not like a test-tube," said one inspector.

But while in public the inspectors were celebrating their discovery of the artillery shells, in private experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna were digesting the details of a substantially more significant find - the blueprint of Saddam's nuclear weapons project.....

full story here, because it's too long to post


Telegraph

[[AK]Squidly]

I read this several days ago...I wonder why it hasn't been given more play. Perhaps on February 5th...

Anyway we don't need a "smoking gun". Iraq has chemical weapons. They've used them against Iran and the Kurds. This is documented fact.

They need to account for these weapons, and to date have not done so.

[[AK]Choozoo]

Then how come you didn't post it o wise one?

[[AK]Squidly]

If I posted everything I read ... well you guys wouldn't love me the way you do now...