Good question, tried getting a straight answer out of Saddam on that very issue.
Humor me for a sec, let's give Saddam the benefit of the doubt. When he submitted that 12,000 page report, of which only the 5 permanent members of the security council saw in it's entirety, he included ALL the WMD he really had.
Where are the ones he admitted having but could never account for?
We have a surrendered scientist who claims they courted Al-Queda (proven), that WMD were moved to Syria in the mid 90's (?) who also said he WORKED on the programs, and they were ordered to destroy everything just MONTHS before the war. He was able to lead US forces to buried precursor chemicals that HE could have used to make WMD.
What about the public interview of Dr. Death? The wife of the Former Iraqi Oil Minister.
He has already turned over computers ands documents, and named some people for us to talk to, he headed their clandestine weapons programs, his wife played with the nasty bio bugs.
Iraq's leading biologist, dubbed "Dr Germ", has refused to meet UN weapons inspectors but did agree to talk to Panorama Reporter Jane Corbin.
It was the first time the woman dubbed "Dr Germ" and even "toxic Taha" had ever agreed to be interviewed.
It is our right to defend ourselves
Dr Rihab Taha
Dr Rihab Taha was head of Iraq's biological weapons programme for seven years, until 1995.
And she is top of the list of scientists the UN team want to interview.
I asked her if she was ashamed of her past work.
"No, not at all," came Taha's answer. "Iraq has been threatened by different enemies, and we are in an area which suffers from regional conflict. It is our right to defend ourselves."
Liver cancer
While she acknowledged research and development into biological agents, she insisted the regime never weaponised the bacteria it developed.
"We never intended to use it," she continued. "We never wanted to cause harm or damage to anybody."
But the facts are undeniable. Dr Taha's team grew 19,000 litres of botulinum toxin, a food poison that swells the tongue and suffocates its victim.
Two thousand litres of aflatoxin were produced, which causes liver cancer. And they also prepared gas gangrene, which causes skin to melt away.
UN weapons inspectors discovered munitions filled with these agents dumped in a river, proving they had indeed been weaponised.
Dr Taha studied plant toxins at the University of East Anglia, between 1980 and 1984.
She had been sent by the regime, like others, to gain the expertise which Saddam intended to harness for military purposes.
By 1991 she was responsible for three of the country's major bio facilities and was responsible for transportation, concealment and deployment of munitions.
She married General Amer Rashid who became the man in charge of liaising with UN inspectors after the Gulf War. He was later appointed Iraq's oil minister.
For years Dr Taha insisted her work at the al-Hakem laboratory was veterinary science for civilian purposes.
"She would become extremely emotional and cry to put us off the scent," one former inspector remembered.
Deadly poisons
When a son-in-law of Saddam Hussein defected in 1995, the UN learned the truth about what was going on at al-Hakem.
But they have been unable to account for 8,500 litres of anthrax and large quantities of growth medium to culture germs.
And there has been no definitive answer to the question of whether Iraq has developed viruses such as smallpox and haemorrhagic fever.
The inspectors want to talk to Dr Taha about small-scale biological production she is believed to have pioneered after the destruction of al-Hakem.
Intelligence sources believe small stocks of agents are held in laboratories hidden in lorries and trains.
An Iraqi defector recently told Panorama that he fitted out special "clean rooms" for biological weapons manufacture, describing filtration systems and confirming "everything is mobile now".
There were rumours her estranged husband was in trouble for daring to argue with Saddam Hussein that Iraq should come clean with the UN.
A few days ago, I received a call. A Kurdish newspaper was reporting that Dr Taha had been murdered. The report alleged it was to stop her confessing what she knew to inspectors.
An Iraqi official denied this, calling the report "shameless propaganda".
In the murky pool of rumour, propaganda and fear that swirls around Baghdad, there is no way of knowing where Rihab Taha is now and what secrets she still protects.
do you want more, there is more? There is the man in cutody who is affiliated with the group run by the jordainian backed AQ member who operated in western Baghdad, fought in Afghainstan, returned to Iraq only to recieve the best medical care possible in Saddams elite military hopsital, then went off north to open a terrorist camp where WMD recipes and dispersion manuals were found. This is all stuff Powell presented to the UN BTW.
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