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To: Yaacov who wrote (16291)	8/14/2002 9:52:33 AM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

U.S. intelligence agencies spotted activity at an Iraqi factory last week that is increasing fears that Saddam Hussein is advancing his germ-weapons program, The Washington Times has learned A convoy of about 60 trucks was photographed by a U.S. spy satellite at a known biological weapons facility near Taji last week, according to U.S. intelligence officials. The trucks were seen at a site identified as a biological weapons facility once called the Taji Single Cell Protein Plant, located about six miles northwest of Baghdad. The plant, which was converted by the Iraqis into a biological-weapons production facility, was bombed during the 1991 Persian Gulf war. "They're moving stuff in or out," said an official familiar with the report. Intelligence information about Iraq's weapons program is limited, the official said. A CIA spokesman declined to comment. U.S. intelligence agencies also warned Bush administration policy-makers in an intelligence report last week that Saddam is prepared to use weapons of mass destruction — chemical, biological and nuclear — against U.S. and coalition military forces in the event of an attack on Iraq and an incursion into Baghdad, the capital. Senior Bush administration officials have said Iraq's efforts to build the weapons pose a threat to the United States. President Bush said last week that Iraq is "an enemy until proven otherwise." Iraq is seeking unconventional weapons, and "we owe it to our children and our children's children to free the world from weapons of mass destruction in the hands of those who hate freedom," Mr. Bush said. This assessment was included in classified reports last week. The Bush administration has said it will not stand by and allow Iraq to develop such weapons. washtimes.com