Originally posted by: charrison
Well he is reporting that no weapons stocks have been found, but you left where he describes the hidden research facilties and other undeclared things.
Yes, the laboratories that were "
suitable" for CBW research -- though they found no evidence any of them were ever used for this purpose. What a surprise that a modern country had modern labs.
They found a prison laboratory complex "
possibly" used for human testing -- though they found no evidence it ever was.
They found a vial of "biological organisms", specifically live C. botulinum Okra B. bacteria. It was apparently purchased from a lab in the U.S. in the early 1980's. This strain is less virulent than botulinum A and has
never been successfully used in weapons. They found no botulism toxin at all, just the one 20-year old vial of a comparatively benign strain of the bacteria.
They found two trailers that many people here claim were mobile WMD labs. Kay himself, however, admitted that they "have not yet been able to corroborate the existence of a mobile BW production effort." Most experts think the trailers were for hydrogen production, a possibility Kay acknowledges.
They found all sorts of production faciliities that might have dual-use capabilities. They found no evidence that even one of these facilities had ever been used to produce proscribed materials.
They found "cooperative sources" who gave them all sorts of information about WMDs Iraq had (past tense). They did not find any of these of these weapons, however.
They found "Multiple sources with varied access and reliability have told ISG that
Iraq did not have a large, ongoing, centrally controlled CW program after 1991." And, "Information found to date suggests that
Iraq's large-scale capability to develop, produce, and fill new CW munitions was reduced -- if not entirely destroyed -- during Operations Desert Storm and Desert Fox, 13 years of UN sanctions and UN inspections." (Shhhh! Don't tell the YABAs, but Kay found that UN sanctions and inspections were working.)
The bottom line? Iraq was not squeaky clean. Iraq did not want the U.S. to know what it was doing, I'll even stipulate Saddam Hussein was a brutal thug, though Kay did not corroborate this. However, Kay
did NOT find any of the WMD stockpiles or the "thousands of liters" or the nuclear weapons capabilities that Bush and his minions yammered about for months to justify their unliateral invasion of Iraq. They lied, plain and simple. Kay's work only confirms what most of the world already knew.