>>> On January 21, 1991, coalition bombers hit what the Iraqis claimed was a "baby milk factory" in Baghdad. The United States insisted that Iraq was using it as a biological-weapons development site. It appears the facility had briefly functioned as a "baby milk" factory in 1979 and 1980, and then again in the spring and summer of 1990, before the Iraqi regime began to use it as a biological weapons site.
As U.S. officials pointed out at the time, the Iraqi regime was defending the site as it would a military facility. After the Gulf War, UNSCOM inspectors discovered that three scientists from the Iraqi regime's main biological weapons facility had been assigned to the "baby milk" factory.<<<
The baby-milk factory again, huh. Anyone else notice no actual proof is provided in the White House report?
>>>Throughout the past decade, official Anglo-American lies about Iraq have been two-a-penny. During the Gulf war it was said that the al-Amiriya bomb shelter in Baghdad, where hundreds of civilians were incinerated, had been a military command centre; that the pulverised Biladi baby-milk factory was really a biological weapons plant; and that Iraqi soliders in Kuwait had ejected babies from hospital incubators. All these tales were later accepted as untrue. More recently, there was Robin Cook's fictitious story, repeatedly used to shore up Labour support for the Desert Fox bombing campaign against Iraq 18 months ago, that a 16-year-old Iraqi boy had been incarcerated since the age of five for throwing stones at a portrait of Saddam Hussein.<<<
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Another view on civilian casulties:
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