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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (130493)	4/29/2004 4:30:29 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

The inspectors initially destroyed both bio and chem weapons as well as associated programs following the first Gulf War. In addition the Hans Blix team was gathering proof of additional destruction and was attempting to verify that before we told them to get out of the way of the invasion. It was those same inspectors who found documentary evidence of huge stocks that had been unaccounted for, and Hans Blix himself who said that he had not received any satisfactory documentation of what happened to those stocks. Basically, the Iraqis told him, "Oh we destroyed those. No, we didn't keep any records." Regarding the rest of your post; I'm not impressed with panicky "what if" thinking That large convoys of trucks went to Syria, and that Syria sources, heretofore reliable, have reported cw in the Bekaa (at specific locations), and that the chemical-laden AQ trucks came from Syria rigged to go (thus showing Syrian official cooperation at some level) - these are not 'what-if's, they are real facts with evidence.