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To: HPilot who wrote (477553)	5/4/2009 4:55:58 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Respond to of 1574854

moreorless.au.com "1998 - In March restricted access to the presidential sites is granted. However, the weapons inspections dispute flares again in August when Saddam demands that US influence on the program be reduced. In October the weapons inspectors find proof that Iraq has armed the nerve gas VX. Iraq completely suspends cooperation with UNSCOM. The weapons inspectors are withdrawn from Iraq on 16 December, just hours before the US and Britain launch 'Operation Desert Fox', four days of punitive air strikes against suspected weapons facilities. The attacks will continue sporadically into March 1999. The weapons inspections carried out since the end of the Gulf War have discovered and destroyed 40,000 munitions for chemical weapons, 2,610 tonnes of chemical precursors and 411 tonnes of chemical agents. All infrastructure and facilities capable of being used for the production of biological and nuclear weapons, and most of the missile delivery systems, have also been identified and destroyed. The inspections have found no firm evidence that Iraq is engaged in ongoing biological or nuclear weapons development activities but have confirmed that the country has the technical capacity to build a nuclear device and to resume its chemical and biological programs. UNSCOM claims that much of Iraq's stockpile of chemical and biological weapons still remains unaccounted for. The IAEA says it is convinced the "intrusive" inspections it carried out up to 1998 found all the weapons-grade uranium Iraq had at the time. Iraq maintains that while it did produce chemical and biological weapons all have been destroyed. During the 1990s Saddam tells his deputies, "We don't have anything hidden. ... When is this (the UN weapons inspections) going to end? ... (The inspectors) destroyed everything and said, 'Iraq completed 95% of their commitment.' ... We cooperated with the resolutions 100% and you all know that, and the 5% they claim we have not executed could take them 10 years to (verify). ... Don't think for a minute that we still have WMD. We have nothing."