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To: Sig who wrote (123024)	1/11/2004 10:55:58 AM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 281500

Thank you for not reading anything beyond the headline.

To: Sig who wrote (123024)	1/11/2004 12:04:25 PM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The great mystery Recent finding of more buried chemical shells should permit some better guesses as to where the missing WMD's are located if still in Iraq It was confirmation that Saddam tends to keep older weapons, and also to bury them like he did his Air Force. His goal to make big come-back remained unchanged right up to the end, as evidenced by continuing work on the long range missiles. So he keeps useful stuff. If buried where is it buried ? Probably not anywhere under the two no-fly zones because the activities could have been photographed or observed. Probably not in a region where the Shiites or the Kurds lived since they may find and use them against him. Probably not near the (many) factories that produced them Thats where UN Inspectors were concentrated. And the factory workers being questioned today seem not to know what happened to them. IMO they were removed by independent teams so that nobody except Saddams most trusted people would know where they are now. For security reasons, I would expect the burial site was monitored, in the event some accidental discovery was made. Overall then it seems safe to say that they are buried, that we can dismiss having to look under no fly zones or within many miles of the chemical plants That they are close to Saddams home town ( in a radius outside of 20 miles because of the hazards) so that he or some confidant could keep an eye on disturbances at the burial site, and they are not in a place of active civilian construction. Still leaves a big area to search, including around those 120 ammo storage depots. But there was no need to keep the 1000 tons(?) of chemicals he once had. The factories were still intact, and he seemed to have no trouble procuring needed chemicals with which to rapidly make more when the UN left. Sig @keepdigging.com o