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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (4947)	2/11/2003 4:30:51 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 7689

Jeff, Why was "The French are pussies" thread deleted? Regards, OMD EDIT: Just PM'd Jeff and linked him to this message.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (4947)	2/11/2003 4:33:59 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7689

Another excerpt, this time from UNSCOM's report dated March 30, 1999, regarding Iraq's compliance (or lack thereof) with UN inspections of its prohibited weapons programs: srch1.un.org <Scroll down to page 7 of this 16 page document for this part:> 22. UNSCOM uncovered the proscribed biological weapons programme of Iraq, whose complete existence had been concealed by Iraq until 1995. This and subsequent work has permitted [UNSCOM] to obtain significant insights into Iraq's biological warfare capabilities, including a broad understanding of the main delivery systems. UNSCOM has also gained a detailed, albeit incomplete, picture of Iraq's procurement activities for its biological warfare programme. 23. UNSCOM order and supervised the destruction of Iraq's main declared BW production and development facility, Al Hakam. Some 60 pieces of equipment from three other facilities involved in proscribed BW activities as well as some 22 tonnes of growth media for BW production collected from four other facilities were also destroyed. As a result, the declared facilities of Iraq's BW programme have been destroyed and rendered harmless. Now, let's think about that for a few minutes. Iraq loses the Gulf War and agrees to resolutions that prohibit it from having biological weapons of mass destruction. It claims for FOUR YEARS thereafter that is has no such weapons. With inspectors crawling around the country, the weapons are not found until one day the inspectors stumble across some evidence and the Iraqis admit that, oh yes, they do have a biological weapons capability, but it's all in this one building, you see. So the UN goes into that building, finds 22 TONS of "growth media" for biological warfare and destroys them. And the solution is.....? Let's read the next paragraph of the UNSCOM report: 24. In the biological area, Iraq's Full Final and Complete Disclosure (FFCD) has not been accepted by UNSCOM as a full account of Iraq's BW programme. A full disclosure of the scope and nature of the programme was considered outstanding by UNSCOM. The briefing indicated that this evaluation was corroborated by technical evaluation meetings called by UNSCOM including at the request of Iraq. The briefing also indicated that critical gaps need to be filled to arrive at a reasonably complete picture. It has also been recognized that due to the fact that BW agents can be produced using low technology and simple equipment, generally dual-use, Iraq possesses the capability and knowledge base through which biological warfare agents could be produced quickly and in volume.