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Titolo: Nazioni Unite: l'Irak non aveva WMD dopo il 1994 -USA Today 2/3/2004

Questo lo dedico agli amici De Ce' e Castagno, che tanto hanno fatto per 
appurare la verita' in Irak.
Sebbene il tema sia un po' passe', serve a rinfrescare la memoria ai 
duri d'orecchia.
Posted 3/2/2004 1:33 AM
U.N.: Iraq had no WMD after 1994
 By Bill Nichols, USA TODAY
UNITED NATIONS ã A report from U.N. weapons inspectors to be released 
today says they now believe there were no weapons of mass destruction of 
any significance in Iraq after 1994, according to two U.N. diplomats who 
have seen the document.
The historical review of inspections in Iraq is the first outside study 
to confirm the recent conclusion by David Kay, the former U.S. chief 
inspector, that Iraq had no banned weapons before last year's U.S-led 
invasion. It also goes further than prewar U.N. reports, which said no 
weapons had been found but noted that Iraq had not fully accounted for 
weapons it was known to have had at the end of the Gulf War in 1991.
The report, to be outlined to the U.N. Security Council as early as 
Friday, is based on information gathered over more than seven years of 
U.N. inspections in Iraq before the 2003 war, plus postwar findings 
discussed publicly by Kay.
Kay reported in October that his team found "dozens of WMD-related 
program activities" that Iraq was required to reveal to U.N. inspectors 
but did not. However, he said he found no actual WMDs.
The study, a quarterly report on Iraq from U.N. inspectors, notes that 
the U.S. teams' inability to find any weapons after the war mirrors the 
experience of U.N. inspectors who searched there from November 2002 
until March 2003.
Many Bush administration officials were harshly critical of the U.N. 
inspection efforts in the months before the war. Defense Secretary 
Donald Rumsfeld said in August 2002 that inspections "will be a sham."
The Bush administration also pointedly declined U.N. offers to help in 
the postwar weapons hunt, preferring instead to use U.S. inspectors and 
specialists from other coalition countries such as Britain and Australia.
But U.N. reports submitted to the Security Council before the war by 
Hans Blix, former chief U.N. arms inspector, and Mohamed ElBaradei, head 
of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency, have been largely validated by 
U.S. weapons teams. The common findings:
Iraq's nuclear weapons program was dormant.
No evidence was found to suggest Iraq possessed chemical or biological 
weapons. U.N. officials believe the weapons were destroyed by U.N. 
inspectors or Iraqi officials in the years after the 1991 Gulf War.
Iraq was attempting to develop missiles capable of exceeding a 
U.N.-mandated limit of 93 miles.
Demetrius Perricos, the acting executive chairman of the U.N. inspection 
teams, said in an interview that the failure to find banned weapons in 
Iraq since the war undercuts administration criticism of the U.N.'s 
search before the war.
 "You cannot say that only the Americans or the British or the 
Australians currently inspecting in Iraq are the clever inspectors ã and 
the Americans and the British and the Australians that we had were not," 
he said.

 duri d'orecchia.
Guarda che i peti di Saddam dopo che aveva mangiato un kg di fagioli erano
considerati armi chimiche :)
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U.N.-mandated limit of 93 miles.
Attemping????  Aveva oltre 150 missili!!! :)
*LOL*
-Stefano

 
#_Infatti la Rafastagno&Dececere Co. si e`arraffata l'ultimo contratto 
possibile in quel della Mesopotamia, sfuggito stranamente alla 
Kellogs&Brown(Halliburton): scavare a turno nel deserto...uno colla 
pala,l'altro col piccone, in cerca dell'ultimo fantasma evanescente del 
Tigri: le "Intenzioni di costruirle".
Giano

erano considerati armi chimiche :)
Abbiamo sentito la puttanata del giorno :)
-Stefano