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	Hussein was waning threat, report says - The Boston Globe
		Duelfer's report said Hussein was pursuing an aggressive effort to subvert the international sanctions through illegal financing and procurement efforts, officials said.
		The official said the report states that Hussein intended to resume full-scale efforts to produce weapons of mass destruction after the sanctions were eliminated and details his efforts to hinder international inspectors and preserve his weapons of mass destruction capabilities.
		The report is being released at a point in the presidential campaign when Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts is aggressively challenging the Bush administration about its prewar justifications for invading Iraq, which centered largely on the contention that Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/10/06/hussein_was_waning_threat_report_says (630 words)

	Duelfer: Iraqi Intel Trained Iraqis, Other Arabs at Salman Pak, NYT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		The Duelfer report suggests that the American failure to anticipate the Iraqi insurgency was just one of several major misreadings of Mr.
		Duelfer concludes, on the basis of the interviews with Iraqis, chemical weapons were never part of the Iraqi defense strategy because Mr.
		Duelfer describes the M14 unit as having trained Iraqis, Palestinians, Syrians, Yemeni, Lebanese, Egyptian and Sudanese operatives in counterterrorism, explosives, marksmanship and foreign operations at its facilities at Salman Pak, near Baghdad.
	www.mail-archive.com /sam11@erols.com/msg00402.html (1446 words)

	Institute for Policy Studies
		But his report is very selective - most notably he ignores the role of the U.S. Duelfer provides details of companies and private individuals who may have violated the sanctions by providing ostensibly "dual use" material to Iraq, meaning items that could potentially have military as well as civilian uses.
		The exceptions, what was in Duelfer's report that had not been in Iraq's arms declaration, primarily involved the issues of financial procurement, corruption and alleged oil smuggling.
		In the section reporting alleged corruption in the Oil for Food Program, Duelfer's report includes detailed lists from each six-month period since the program began, including companies, individuals, dates, who was paid surcharges, who allegedly received bribes, etc. The report claims the corruption provided more than $11 billion to the Iraqi regime.
	www.ips-dc.org /comment/Bennis/tp23debates.htm (1904 words)

	t r u t h o u t - U.S. 'Almost All Wrong' on WMD
		Duelfer's report, delivered yesterday to two congressional committees, represents the government's most definitive accounting of Hussein's weapons programs, the assumed strength of which the Bush administration presented as a central reason for the war.
		Duelfer's report is the first U.S. intelligence assessment to state flatly that Iraq had secretly destroyed its biological weapons stocks in the early 1990s.
		Duelfer's report said that no chemical weapons existed and that there is no evidence of attempts to make such weapons over the past 12 years.
	www.truthout.org /docs_04/100804Z.shtml (2445 words)

	Arms Control Association: Arms Control Today: Duelfer Disproves U.S. WMD Claims
		Duelfer stated that escaping the sanctions was a “top priority” for Hussein, who manipulated the UN oil-for-food program by granting rights to low-priced Iraqi oil in exchange for recipient countries’ support for getting the sanctions lifted.
		Duelfer argued that support for the sanctions could not have been sustained indefinitely, but lifting sanctions was not seriously under discussion during the run-up to the invasion.
		Duelfer further stated that Iraq “drew the line” at developing WMD warheads for the missiles “so long as sanctions remained.” Duelfer noted that, prior to the Gulf War, Iraq built warheads containing biological and chemical agents within months.
	www.armscontrol.org /act/2004_11/Duelfer.asp (1745 words)

	Saddam worked secretly on WMDs - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - October 07, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Duelfer's report says, Saddam's plans for a skeletal weapons program that could be mobilized quickly led him to pursue the needed materials through illegal and indirect channels.
		Duelfer also noted that Saddam "used chemical weapons for domestic purposes — in the late-80s against the Kurds and during the Shi'a uprisings after the 1991 war" — a point noted regularly by administration officials in justifying to critics the need to invade Iraq.
		Duelfer said it is "still difficult to rule" on whether Iraq had a mobile biological-weapons production effort, but he noted that Iraq secretly destroyed stocks of biological weapons in 1991 and 1992, after having denied to weapons inspectors that it had such a program.
	www.washtimes.com /national/20041007-014021-1051r.htm (923 words)

	(DV) Bennis: Debates, Duelfer, and Aluminum Tubes
		While Duelfer's report went out of its way to include information far beyond its WMD mandate, and Duelfer himself repeated Bush's "the world is better off" phrase in his congressional testimony, there is no question that this report confirms the war was based on lies.
		Almost everything in Duelfer's report documenting the period through late 1998 was already known to government officials from earlier UN reports.
		Duelfer himself was the deputy director of the UN arms inspection teams for years, most recently under Hans Blix.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Oct04/Bennis1009.htm (1994 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Saddam had no WMD for a decade, report says
		The 1,000-page report by Charles Duelfer, head of the CIA's Iraq Survey Group weapons-hunting teams, is the most definitive account of Iraq's long-defunct weapons programs and comes as the presidential campaign increasingly is focused on President Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq primarily to disarm Saddam of suspected chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
		Duelfer said, for example, that there was no evidence that Saddam sought to import uranium from Africa, as Bush claimed in his 2003 State of the Union speech.
		Duelfer also rejected administration claims that two truck trailers seized in Iraq after the war were designed to produce germ weapons.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002056408_weapons07.html (837 words)

	CNN.com - Report: No WMD stockpiles in Iraq - Oct 7, 2004
		In fact, the long-awaited report, authored by Charles Duelfer, who advises the director of central intelligence on Iraqi weapons, says Iraq's WMD program was essentially destroyed in 1991 and Saddam ended Iraq's nuclear program after the 1991 Gulf War.
		Duelfer, testifying at a Senate hearing on the report, said his account attempts to describe Iraq's weapons programs "not in isolation but in the context of the aims and objectives of the regime that created and used them."
		U.S. officials said the Duelfer report is "comprehensive," but they are not calling it a "final report" because there are still some loose ends to tie up.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/10/06/iraq.wmd.report (954 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Iraq Had No WMD: The Final Verdict
		The draft Duelfer report, according to the New York Times, finds no evidence of a capability, but only of an intention to rebuild that capability once the UN embargo had been removed and Iraq was no longer the target of intense international scrutiny.
		Duelfer, according to the draft, does not exclude the possibility that some weapons materials could have been smuggled out of Iraq before the war, a possibility raised by the administration and its supporters.
		Duelfer, who is reported to still be in Baghdad, did not respond to a request for an interview on the question of WMD yesterday.
	www.truthout.org /docs_04/092004Z.shtml (885 words)

	The source Duelfer didn't quote \| Iraq \| Guardian Unlimited
		Duelfer's report did note that Iraq maintained so-called "dual-use" facilities (those with legitimate civilian and/or military functions, but which could be configured for proscribed use), but his ISG has found no evidence that any such conversion had taken place.
		Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman, was quick to note that Saddam was, according to the ISG report, "a gathering threat that needed to be taken seriously, that it was a matter of time before he was going to begin pursuing those weapons of mass destruction".
		Duelfer's report slams the door on that line of thinking, since it is now clear that Iraq had in fact disarmed in compliance with security council resolutions.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1323471,00.html (976 words)

	Classical Values :: Do you know what's in the Duelfer Report? Does the Media?
		The evidence which Sanger refers to in the Duelfer report is not the same evidence that led to the President's decision.
		That report can not be applied transhistorically to invalidate or vitiate the decision to go to war when the intelligence that had existed then, and which John Kerry had also seen and agreed with, justified the decision.
		This report will, hopefully, allow a more complete examination of these events by showing the dynamics involved within the Regime and where it was headed as well as the status of the WMD on the ground in 2003.
	www.classicalvalues.com /archives/001595.html (1962 words)

	The Duelfer Report/ Attacks in Sinai
		First, columnist David Brooks points out that the report makes it clear that Saddam was determined to have WMD, was actively working to subvert the sanctions, and would clearly have succeeded in a reasonably short period of time.
		Duelfer makes clear on the very first page of his report that it is a story.
		Fortunately for President Bush, Congressional Oil for Food hearings and Charles Duelfer's final weapons inspections report for the CIA have come along this week to remind us all that the "containment" of Saddam was neither as blissful as certain partisans remember it, nor even sustainable.
	www.aijac.org.au /updates/Oct-04/111004.html (2382 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: What Charles Duelfer Missed by Christopher S. Carson
		Duelfer believes that the major pretext for war turned out to be Saddam’s own fiction, contrived for Saddam’s unique purposes and stemming from his flawed strategic information.
		Duelfer writes that ISG cannot be sure whether Saddam maintained his government’s prior work on weaponization of smallpox virus up to March 2003.
		Somehow, when reporting that the Duelfer Report “proved” that the “case for war” was bogus, the mainstream media missed the part about the “senior researchers” telling ISG that their “secret lab” had just been looted of all their good smallpox.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18497 (2580 words)

	Online NewsHour: Report Shows No WMD In Iraq -- October 7, 2004
		Duelfer, head of the Iraq survey group, concluded that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were "essentially" destroyed since 1991 Gulf War...
		SPENCER MICHELS: The Duelfer report said that there was no evidence that Saddam was trying to reproduce Iraq's earlier nuclear program, but it appeared he did want to restart the chemical weapons program, and that he could have restarted a biological program, but there was no evidence Saddam intended to do so.
		Duelfer, we didn't go to war because Saddam's intent or future capability to produce the weapons of mass destruction; we were told that Saddam already had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he could acquire a nuclear weapon within a year, which he could then give to terrorists.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec04/wmd_10-7.html (1166 words)

	USATODAY.com - Final report: Iraq had no WMDs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Using the research of the 1,700-member Iraq Survey Group, Duelfer concluded that Saddam ordered his arsenal of chemical and biological weapons destroyed in 1991 and 1992 and halted nuclear weapons development, all in hopes of lifting crippling economic sanctions.
		The report, which drew on CIA and FBI interrogation reports on Saddam, says he was obsessed with his status in the Arab world, dreaming of weapons of mass destruction to pump up his prestige.
		The report suggests that Saddam tried to improve relations with the United States in the 1990s, yet basked in his standing as the only leader to stand up to the world's superpower.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2004-10-06-wmd_x.htm (708 words)

	Report Discounts Iraqi Arms Threat (washingtonpost.com)
		The officials said Duelfer, an experienced former United Nations weapons inspector, found that the state of Hussein's weapons-development programs and knowledge base was less advanced in 2003, when the war began, than it was in 1998, when international inspectors left Iraq.
		The official said the report states that Hussein had the intent to resume full-scale weapons of mass destruction efforts after the sanctions were eliminated, and details Hussein's efforts to hinder international inspectors and preserve his weapons of mass destruction capabilities.
		The report's release comes at a point in the presidential campaign when Democratic candidate John F. Kerry is aggressively challenging the Bush administration about its prewar justifications for invading Iraq, which centered largely on the contention that Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A9790-2004Oct5.html (666 words)

	Saddam's Weapons Programs: What Does the Duelfer Report Really Say? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		The Duelfer report stated that Saddam Hussein (he uses the spelling Husayn) “so dominated the Iraqi Regime that its strategic intent was his alone.
		The report does state that Iraq’s WMD capability “was essentially destroyed in 1991.” International sanctions kept Saddam economically unable to substantially revive his WMD programs until 1996.
		Kerry and his supporters, including the liberal mainstream media, are distorting the contents of the Duelfer report, with their usual disregard for the truth, in the expectation that enough people will take them at their word to deliver Kerry a November 2 victory.
	www.perspicacityonline.com /Articles/2004/10/duelfer041018.htm (2421 words)

	"Duelfer Report Hides Americans Involved in Oil-for-Food Corruption," wrote John McCrory
		CIA analyst Charles A. Duelfer's report on Iraq's weapons programs included lists of governments, political parties, companies and individuals from at least 44 nations who received vouchers to buy oil -- both legally and otherwise -- from the Iraqi government during Saddam Hussein's reign.
		The Post reports in another article on the oil vouchers that although the Duelfer report censors the names of U.S. individuals and companies, it can be deduced that three American oil companies are among them — Exxon Mobil, ChevronTexaco, and Valero Energy:
		Of course, since the names of the Americans and American companies that Duelfer's survey team found were involved in the oil-for-food corruption have been kept classified, we have no idea who else might have been involved.
	www.johnmccrory.com /wrote.asp?this=452 (871 words)

	The Duelfer Report
		But after reading the report, neither is it true that it is a completely settled case that there were no WMD in Iraq prior to the war.
		It's also very clear from the report that Iraq had fairly significant WMD capability before the first Gulf war and that in that war we were very successful in severely damaging most of his programs.
		But, after reading a fair portion of the Duelfer report, it is simply not the case that it supports the notion that there is "enormous evidence" that Saddam Hussein didn't possess "weapons of mass destruction immediately preceding the American-led invasion".
	homepage.mac.com /mes/iblog/B337353584/C1870282643/E504067863 (1941 words)

	Iraq intended to make weapons: report - Iraq - www.theage.com.au
		The 1,500-page report by Charles Duelfer offers the most complex picture yet of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program, the official said in confirming a New York Times story which said the report concluded that Saddam intended to resume production of the weapons if UN sanctions were removed.
		Duelfer had said he would focus on the Iraqi regime's intentions when he took over the weapons hunt from David Kay, who concluded in an interim report last year there was no evidence Iraq had stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons at the time of the US invasion.
		The Duelfer report, which was expected to be released in the next few weeks, is certain to become a political football in the US presidential election.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/09/18/1095394043858.html (772 words)

	The Duelfer report: Facts & fictions - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Yet this is what most of the media concentrated on when it reported the findings of Charles A. Duelfer, the chief U.S. weapons inspector.
		As such, this became the basis for the media to conclude that Saddam was "no threat." Which simply wasn't true.
		Duelfer's conclusions, from his report and in testimony last week before the Senate Armed Services Committee:
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/opinion/archive/s_260719.html (269 words)

	Rantingprofs: THE TIMES COVERS THE DUELFER REPORT
		Duelfer said that even during those years, Saddam Hussein had aimed at "preserving the capability to reconstitute his weapons of mass destruction when sanctions were lifted.'' But he said he had found no evidence of any concerted effort by Iraq to restart the programs.
		Duelfer said in the report, Iraq did not possess chemical and biological weapons, was not seeking to reconstitute its nuclear program, and was not making any active effort to gain those abilities.
		Duelfer, a special adviser to the director of central intelligence, said he had concluded that Mr.
	www.rantingprofs.com /rantingprofs/2004/10/the_times_cover.html (1025 words)

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