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To: Neocon who wrote (156054)	1/12/2005 4:27:45 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Are you citing German estimates or are you citing an Iraqi claiming to cite German estimates? As you know, this information is entirely bogus. One of the few areas where the UN inspections had reasonable clarity was in the nuclear area -- the UN inspection process did not discover any evidence of an active nuclear program, or the enriched uranium materials you cite here. There were Iraqi defectors willing to entertain us with wild stories to benefit themselves and their handlers -- people like Chalabi who was on the US payroll ot turn up "something" to make it look like a real threat.

To: Neocon who wrote (156054)	1/12/2005 4:33:38 PM
From: GST	Respond to of 281500

Reported today: <"We have believed that there weren't any weapons since around May or June 2003. First came David Kay in September 2003 [who said] that he hadn't found any weapons and that was a big sensation - but he thought that there were programmes still," he told the BBC. "But then came Duelfer last November [who] said that he hadn't seen any programmes, but maybe Saddam would have intended to restart the programme, and there is no evidence of that. Mr Blix said he assumed it would be natural for the United States to now report their finding to the UN Security Council "because the US took the inspections out of the hands of the UN to undertake it themselves". > news.bbc.co.uk