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Pentagon had no proof of chemical weapons
07.06.2003 [23:12]
The Pentagon's intelligence agency had no hard evidence of Iraqi chemical
weapons last fall but believed Iraq had a program in place to produce them,
the agency's chief said Friday.
The assessment suggests a higher degree of uncertainty about the immediacy
of an Iraqi threat -- at least with regard to one portion of its banned
weapons programs -- than the Bush administration indicated publicly in
building its case for disarming Iraq, with force if necessary.
Two months after the major fighting in Iraq ended, the United States has yet
to find any chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, although it did find
two trailers it judged to be mobile laboratories for producing bioweapons.
The absence so far of a "smoking gun" has raised questions about the quality
of U.S. intelligence before the war and whether the administration
exaggerated the urgency of an Iraqi threat.
Vice Adm. Lowell Jacoby, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency,
discussed the matter at a Capitol Hill news conference Friday as the
administration scrambled to respond to news reports about excerpts from a
September 2002 DIA report on facilities and other pieces of Iraq's
arms-building infrastructure.
Jacoby said his agency concurred in an intelligence community consensus last
fall that Iraq had a program for weapons of mass destruction. But the DIA
was unable to pinpoint any locations.
"We could not specifically pin down individual facilities operating as part
of the weapons of mass destruction program, specifically the chemical
warfare portion," Jacoby said at a joint news conference with Sen. John
Warner, R-Va., and Stephen Cambone, the Pentagon's intelligence chief.
They spoke after the Senate Armed Services Committee met privately with
Jacoby, Cambone and an unidentified CIA representative to discuss prewar
intelligence on Iraq's weapons programs.
At the White House, visiting Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Durao Barroso
told reporters that President Bush told him Friday he has "full confidence
in the intelligence reports he received about the possession of weapons of
mass destruction by the former Iraqi authorities."
The administration began building its case against Iraq last August in a
series of speeches by Vice President Dick Cheney. "There is no doubt that
Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction," Cheney told a Veterans
of Foreign Wars convention on Aug. 26. "There is no doubt he is amassing
them to use against our friends, against our allies and against us."
In September, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld joined in.
"We do know that the Iraqi regime has chemical and biological weapons,"
Rumsfeld told the House Armed Services Committee on Sept. 18. "His regime
has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons -- including
VX, sarin, cyclosarin and mustard gas."
In his description of the still-classified DIA report, Jacoby drew a
distinction between the level of certainty about Iraq's pursuit of weapons
and the existence of actual chemical weapons.
"As of 2002, in September, we could not reliably pin down -- for somebody
who was doing contingency planning -- specific facilities, locations or
production that was under way at a specific location at that point in time,"
he said.
The report "is not in any way intended to portray the fact that we had any
doubts that such a program existed," he said.
Rumsfeld recently raised the possibility that Iraq destroyed such weapons
before the war started March 20. He also has said he believes some remain
and will be discovered when U.S. search teams find knowledgeable Iraqis who
are willing to disclose the locations.
In making its case for invading Iraq, the administration also argued that
Iraq was seeking to develop nuclear weapons and that it might provide
mass-killing weapons to terrorists.
On Friday, a small team of United Nations nuclear experts arrived in Baghdad
to begin a damage assessment at Iraq's largest nuclear facility, known as
Tuwaitha. It was left unguarded by American and allied troops during the
early days of the war and was pillaged by villagers.
The arrival of the team -- whose members are not weapons inspectors --
marked the first time since the Iraq war began that representatives from the
U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency returned to the country. The
agency had long monitored Iraq's nuclear program.
The DIA's analysis is just one piece of an intelligence mosaic that Rumsfeld
and other senior administration officials could consider in making their own
assessment of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons capability. Congress is
reviewing the prewar intelligence to determine whether the administration
overplayed the weapons threat in order to justify toppling the Iraqi
government.
Fonte: Associated Press

Fonte: Associated Press
giusto. hai ragione. lo dice la associated press.
e' questo che intendi, no?
le tue sono opinioni e sono suffragate da altre opinioni.
complimenti per il ng su cui scrivi: "storia".

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Io voglio sapere dove sono quelle del '98, non me ne frega niente che non
ce ne siano di nuove, o che non si trovino più. Qui non si tratta di
trovare una cosa che si sospetta ci sia, ma di trovare una cosa che si sa
per certo che c'era, e che ora non si trova più.
Raffaele
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 07.06.2003 [23:12]
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/06/08/sprj.irq.main/index.html
Powell slams media on Iraq WMD reports
'No doubt whatsoever' they were present before invasion
interessante questo pezzo:
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 The report, widely discussed in various media outlets, said the DIA had
found "no reliable information on whether Iraq is producing and
stockpiling chemical weapons."
Powell noted that the report did not stop there.
"The very next sentence says that it had information that weapons had been
dispersed to units," Powell told "Fox News Sunday." "Chemical weapons had
been dispersed to units." 
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