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To: Skywatcher who wrote (15405)3/24/2003 2:01:18 PM
From: jlallen  Respond to of 89467
 
Spoken like a true pinhead...



To: Skywatcher who wrote (15405)3/24/2003 2:48:58 PM
From: TigerPaw  Respond to of 89467
 
"A large number of conspiracy theorists all over the world will say the U.S. government has planted all that stuff."


But first... be sure there are no witnesses


In a twist that could complicate the effort, the White House has decided, for now, to assign no role in the disarmament effort to the key U.N. agencies that were charged by the Security Council with carrying out the search for banned weapons. As recently as the last week of February, U.S. and U.N. officials said, the State Department asked the leading inspection agency, the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, known as UNMOVIC, and the International Atomic Energy Agency for help in the postwar dismantling of Iraq's remaining long-range missiles and nuclear, biological, chemical and missile weapons programs.

washingtonpost.com

Since there will be no independent U.N. witnesses in the search, U.S. officials said they give high priority to making a public display of the discovery of any weapons. "If we've got a good news story, in the sense that we find something, we will take reporters to see it," one defense official said. Another spoke of a mandate to find "a smoking gun real fast."