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June 22, 2006

US: WMD's Found in Iraq, Declassified Report Says

A newly declassified report claims over 500 old chemical shells have been found in Iraq since the 2003 invasion: Report: Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq

WASHINGTON - The United States has found 500 chemical weapons in Iraq since 2003, and more weapons of mass destruction are likely to be uncovered, two Republican lawmakers said Wednesday.

"We have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, chemical weapons," Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., said in a quickly called press conference late Wednesday afternoon.

Reading from a declassified portion of a report by the National Ground Intelligence Center, a Defense Department intelligence unit, Santorum said: "Since 2003, coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent. Despite many efforts to locate and destroy Iraq's pre-Gulf War chemical munitions, filled and unfilled pre-Gulf War chemical munitions are assessed to still exist."

This answers one important question: whether Saddam Hussein was complying with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441; it is now clear he wasn't. Several questions remain, however. Most importantly, what role did Russia and Syria play in hiding and destroying Saddam's program prior to the invasion. Special consideration should be given to Ion Mihai Pacepa's contention that Russia had a plan in place to destroy Saddam's program: Ex-spy fingers Russians on WMD

On March 20, Russian PresidentVladimir Putin denounced the U.S.-led "aggression" against Iraq as "unwarranted" and "unjustifiable." Three days later, Pravda said that an anonymous Russian "military expert" was predicting that the United States would fabricate finding Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov immediately started plying the idea abroad, and it has taken hold around the world ever since.

As a former Romanian spy chief who used to take orders from the Soviet KGB, it is perfectly obvious to me that Russia is behind the evanescence of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. After all, Russia helped Saddam get his hands on them in the first place. The Soviet Union and all its bloc states always had a standard operating procedure for deep sixing weapons of mass destruction — in Romanian it was codenamed "Sarindar, meaning "emergency exit."Iimplemented it in Libya. It was for ridding Third World despots of all trace of their chemical weapons if the Western imperialists ever got near them. We wanted to make sure they would never be traced back to us, and we also wanted to frustrate the West by not giving them anything they could make propaganda with.[...]

The other question, of course, concerns the actions of certain American and other Western politicians and political activists, who have chosen, for political purposes, to smear the United States over the WMD question. To them I extend my contempt.

Posted by Ruy Diaz at June 22, 2006 8:59 AM

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