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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5528)	4/26/2003 6:48:29 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 15987

<<As for WMDs, I also have a hard time believing they could just destroy thousands of tons of materials without any paperwork as to where and how much was destroyed.>> Traces have been found on boots and in the rivers. Plus the one artillery unit had the shells ready but not the inserts. There are 100s if not 1,000s of samples being tested. It will take some time. Hell, your doctor wants 3 weeks to check your blood in the same building. A chain of evidence has to be built and independently verified from half way around the world. Checking for sarin, VX, anthrax ... isn't like opening the milk bottle and sniffing to see if it's bad.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5528)	4/27/2003 1:39:45 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

Breaking tonight: France briefed Iraq on war: report HOME > BREAKING NEWS > STORY April 27, 2003 news.com.au FRANCE gave Saddam Hussein's regime regular reports on its dealings with US officials, The Sunday Times reported, quoting files it had found in the wreckage of the Iraqi foreign ministry. The conservative British weekly said the information kept Saddam abreast of every development in US planning and may have helped him to prepare for war. One report warned of a US "attempt to involve Iraq with terrorism" as "cover for an attack on Iraq", according to The Sunday Times. Another, dated September 25, 2001, from Naji Sabri, the Iraqi foreign minister, to Saddam's palace, was based on a briefing from the French ambassador in Baghdad and covered talks between presidents Jacques Chirac and US President George W Bush. Chirac was said to have been told that the US was "100 per cent certain Osama bin Laden was behind the September 11 attacks and that the answer of the United States would be decisive".