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	Iraq Survey Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Iraq Survey Group (ISG) was a fact-finding mission sent by the multinational force in Iraq after the 2003 Invasion of Iraq to find weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs developed by Iraq under the regime of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
		ISG efforts would not have been possible without the US invasion of Iraq, a country that on one hand was trying to convince the world that it had no nuclear weapons while also trying to convince its bitter rival Iran that it did.
		Iraq's nuclear program was terminated in 1991, at which point micrograms of enriched uranium had been produced from a single test gas centrifuge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iraq_Survey_Group (2736 words)

	Iraq Survey Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		ISG has obtained testimony from both detainees and cooperative sources that indicate that proscribed-range solid-propellant missile design studies were initiated, or already under way, at the time when work on the clustered liquid-propellant missile designs began.
		Iraq never declared its pre-Gulf War capability to manufacture Scud IRFNA out of fear, multiple sources have stated, that the al-Tariq factory would be destroyed, leaving Baghdad without the ability to produce highly concentrated nitric acid, explosives and munitions.
		ISG has developed multiple sources of testimony, which is corroborated in part by a captured document, that Iraq undertook a program aimed at increasing the HY-2's range and permitting its use as a land-attack missile.
	www.caabu.org /press/documents/iraq-survey-group.html (5451 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Iraq disarmament crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Iraq's supposed acquisition of African uranium was a feature in Colin Powell's speech to the UN Security Council in February and in George W. Bush's State of the Union Address.
		Iraq disarmament crisis: In an interview on BBC Radio 4, Clare Short, a member of Tony Blair?s cabinet, describes his stance on Iraq as "deeply reckless", and says she would resign if he committed the UK to war without an unambiguous mandate from the United Nations.
		Iraq says that it considers the Monitoring and Verification Plans adopted by Resolution 715 to be unlawful, and states that it is not ready to comply with the Resolution.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Iraq-disarmament-crisis (861 words)

	Iraq Survey Group Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Iraq's WMD programmes spanned more than two decades, involved thousands of people, billions of dollars, and were elaborately shielded by security and deception operations that continued even beyond the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
		ISG has obtained testimony from both detainees and co-operative sources that indicate that proscribed-range solid-propellant missile design studies were initiated, or already underway, at the time when work on the clustered liquid-propellant missile designs began.
		ISG has developed multiple sources of testimony, which is corroborated in part by a captured document, that Iraq undertook a programme aimed at increasing the HY-2's range and permitting its use as a land-attack missile.
	www.caabu.org /press/documents/wmd-report-oct2004.html (5761 words)

	2003 invasion of Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 2002 the Iraq disarmament crisis arose primarily as a diplomatic situation.
		Iraq was subsequently marked by violent conflict between U.S.-led occupation of Iraq soldiers and forces described by the occupiers as insurgents.
		The ongoing resistance in Iraq was concentrated in, but not limited to, an area referred to by Western media and the occupying forces as the Sunni triangle and Baghdad [45].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq (8439 words)

	Iraq War - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Iraq War
		War (2003) between Iraq and an international coalition led by the USA and the UK.
		Increasingly concerned that Iraq was continuing to develop such weapons in the inspectors' absence, the UN security council passed Resolution 1441 in November 2002 requiring both the return of the inspectors under Swedish diplomat Hans Blix and a full declaration of all Iraqi weapons programmes.
		However, France, Russia, and Germany called for a central UN role in overseeing Iraq's post-war reconstruction and opposed the lifting of UN sanctions.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Iraq+War (554 words)

	Iraq Survey Group Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Iraq Survey Group (ISG) is a fact finding mission from the coalition of the Iraq occupation into the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) programs developed by Iraq under the regime of Saddam Hussein.
		The discoveries made by the ISG include a "clandestine network of laboratories [...] that contained equipment [...] suitable for continuing chemical biological weapons research" and vials of "live C botulinum Okra B from which a biological agent can be produced".
		The Iraq Survey Group continued the work of UN inspectors, led by Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei, who were mandated by the UN Security Council to search for illegal weapons before the conflict.
	www.issues2000.org /Iraq_Survey_Group.htm (616 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| 'There are no shining weapons'
		According to a progress report by the Iraq Survey Group (ISG), delivered to the US Congress yesterday by its leader, David Kay, Saddam had taken no steps to revive his nuclear weapons plan since 1998, and had abandoned any large-scale chemical weapons programme more than a decade ago.
		But several weapons experts contacted yesterday argued that while the ISG, like the UN inspectors before them, appear to have uncovered discrepancies, its overall findings appeared to confirm that Iraq did not have an arsenal of banned weapons at the time of the March invasion.
		The ISG appeared to have more success in finding evidence of plans to build long-distance missiles, which were banned under UN rules.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1055021,00.html (1036 words)

	Statement on the Interim Progress Report on the Activities of the Iraq Survey Group
		With the regime of Saddam Husayn at an end, ISG has the opportunity for the first time of drawing together all the evidence that can still be found in Iraq - much evidence is irretrievably lost - to reach definitive conclusions concerning the true state of Iraq's WMD program.
		In searching for retained stocks of chemical munitions, ISG has had to contend with the almost unbelievable scale of Iraq's conventional weapons armory, which dwarfs by orders of magnitude the physical size of any conceivable stock of chemical weapons.
		ISG has obtained testimony from both detainees and cooperative sources that indicate that proscribed-range solid-propellant missile design studies were initiated, or already underway, at the time when work on the clustered liquid-propellant missile designs began. The motor diameter was to be 800 to 1000mm, i.e.
	www.fas.org /irp/cia/product/dkay100203.html (5693 words)

	Biological Weapons - Iraq Special Weapons
		Iraq was assessed as having some lethal and incapacitating BW agents and being capable of quickly producing and weaponizing a variety of such agents, including anthrax, for delivery by bombs, missiles, aerial sprayers, and covert operatives.
		The Iraq Survey Group found a network of laboratories and safehouses controlled by Iraqi intelligence and security services that contained equipment for chemical and biological research and a prison laboratory complex, possibly used in human testing for Biological Weapon agents, that were not declared to the UN.
		In an exclusive interview with The Sunday Telegraph published on January 25, 2004, Dr. David Kay, the former head of the Iraq Survey Group, said there was evidence that unspecified materials had been moved to Syria shortly before the start of the war to overthrow Saddam.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/iraq/bw.htm (541 words)

	TomPaine.com - Hiding Behind Secrecy
		In its push to ensure that the failure of the Iraq Survey Group be merely a one-day blip in media reporting, the Bush administration treated Americans to more of the same obfuscation to which it resorted in the original push to war.
		What President Bush said on Oct. 7, 2004, was that the Iraq Survey Group report "confirms the earlier conclusion by David Kay [Duelfer's predecessor] that Iraq did not have the weapons that our intelligence believed were there"—and given the report's content, he could hardly maintain otherwise.
		Much as Bush administration rhetoric has shifted to different justifications for the Iraq war, what has completely disappeared from discussions of WMD is the repeated prewar assertion that Iraqi weapons (if they existed) were for the purpose of attacking the United States.
	www.tompaine.com /articles/hiding_behind_secrecy.php (1019 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Politics \| No WMD in Iraq, source claims
		This will be the conclusion of the Iraq Survey Group's interim report, the source told the presenter of BBC television's Daily Politics show, Andrew Neil.
		The survey group, led by David Kay, a former UN weapons inspector and now a special adviser to the CIA, is a largely US operation, although it includes some British and Australian staff.
		The survey group has been under pressure to prove the Bush administration's case that Iraq's weapons posed a significant threat.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/politics/3135932.stm (830 words)

	Iraq Survey Group Adds Two Plus Two - Global News on the World Crisis Web
		The long-awaited final report by the USA’s Iraq Survey Group has confirmed that Saddam Hussein had no stockpiles of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons for at least a decade before invasion last year, and that he consciously determined not to obtain any such weapons, in an effort to get the United Nations sanctions program lifted.
		Iraq ended the nuclear program in 1991 after the Gulf War, and there is no evidence of efforts by Iraq to restart the program.
		Iraq “unilaterally destroyed its undeclared chemical weapons stockpile in 1991”;, and there were no credible indications it resumed production after that date.
	www.world-crisis.com /news/876_0_1_0_M (669 words)

	Scoop: Briefing on the Iraq Survey Group
		Now, the Iraq Survey Group [ISG] represents a significant expansion of effort in the hunt for weapons of mass destruction, as we build on the efforts that are ongoing.
		During the transition period, the ISG operations group, which is really my command post, will gather under its control the various intelligence collection operations that are currently underway and begin to refocus collection efforts to analytically-driven requirements.
		We have a combat support group in the 75th, whose job it was to support the combat forces.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/WO0306/S00039.htm (4215 words)

	CNN.com - Official: U.S. calls off search for Iraqi WMDs - Jan 12, 2005
		Charles A. Duelfer, who headed the Iraq Survey Group's search for WMD in Iraq, has returned to the United States and is working on his final report, the official said.
		The Iraq Survey Group report said that Iraq's WMD program was essentially destroyed in 1991 and Saddam ended the country's nuclear program after the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
		After Duelfer delivered his Iraq Survey Group's report to the Senate, Bush acknowledged that Iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction at the time he ordered the invasion but said Saddam was "systematically gaming the system" and that the world is safer because he is no longer in power.
	www.cnn.com /2005/US/01/12/wmd.search (984 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| Mixed messages from WMD report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the most comprehensive report yet, the group, which is made up of more than 1,000 soldiers, intelligence analysts and experts, has concluded that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq at the time of the invasion.
		At first glance the ISG report appears to be a crushing indictment of the intelligence that was fed to the American and British governments before the war - not to mention the uses to which that intelligence was put by the White House and Downing Street.
		They are likely to argue that the ISG report confirms what John Kerry has been arguing these few weeks: that the president's judgement was flawed when he invaded Iraq.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/3722144.stm (743 words)

	NTI: Global Security Newswire
		The Iraq Survey Group, a unit of 1,200 WMD experts now conducting the search for Iraqi WMD programs, has been steadily collecting evidence to support coalition claims that Iraq did in fact possess such programs, British sources said yesterday (see GSN, June 19).
		The group has offices in Baghdad, Washington and Qatar, with 120 analysts and 250 processors advising the group’s activities within Iraq.
		The Iraq Survey Group replaced the U.S. Army’s 75th Exploitation Task Force in the coalition’s search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
	www.nti.org /d_newswire/issues/2003/7/9/3s.html (224 words)

	CNN.com - Report fuels Iraq WMD debate - Oct 7, 2004
		Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh backed Blair's remarks, pointing to evidence that Saddam was diverting money from the U.N. food-for-oil humanitarian program to buy new weapons.
		David Kay, former Bush-appointed head of the Iraq Survey Group, talked to CNN Thursday about the report issued by his successor.
		He said "the most meaningful conclusion of" the report "is the failure of our intelligence services and the intelligence services of other western countries" to determine that Iraq had no stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction nor means to build them.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/10/07/wmd.report.reax (853 words)

	Iraq WMD Hunt 'Has Been Exhausted', Search For Saddam's Arsenal Complete Without Any Weapons Found - CBS News
		Nor did Charles Duelfer, head of the Iraq Survey Group, find any evidence that such weapons were shipped officially from Iraq to Syria to be hidden before the U.S. invasion, but he couldn't rule out some unofficial transfer of limited WMD-related materials.
		While concluding yet again that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, this latest report from the Iraq survey group also warns that Saddam Hussein's experts could find work elsewhere, for terrorists or unfriendly governments, reports CBS News Correspondent Steve Holt.
		The Bush administration justified its 2003 invasion of Iraq as necessary to eliminate Hussein's purported stockpile of WMD.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/04/26/iraq/main690922.shtml (534 words)

	Iraq Survey Group Continues Search for WMDs
		A U.S. official working with an international group of specialists searching post-Saddam Iraq for weapons of mass destruction said today that more work needs to be performed before arriving at any conclusions.
		The ISG's mission, he observed, is "to determine all that was potentially being done related to WMD and the delivery systems for WMD" in Saddam-controlled Iraq.
		Duelfer said the group is trying to find out whether Saddam's regime had weapons of mass destruction when it was toppled, and exactly what its WMD capabilities and intentions were.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1108296/posts (686 words)

	DoD News: Briefing on the Iraq Survey Group
		(Briefing on the Iraq Survey Group. Participating were Stephen A. Cambone, under secretary of defense for intelligence, and Army Maj. Gen.
		Now, the Iraq Survey Group [ISG] represents a significant expansion of effort in the hunt for weapons of mass destruction, as we build on the efforts that are ongoing. The ISG will mean more people applied to the task, to be sure. But this is not the most important point.
		We have a combat support group in the 75th, whose job it was to support the combat forces. And so, their job was to be able to give information to the combat forces about things to either avoid, precautions to be taken, events that they may have to prepare for.
	www.defenselink.mil /transcripts/2003/tr20030530-0231.html (2383 words)

	Dispatch Online - Your premier Eastern Cape news site
		LONDON - The Iraq Survey Group is to confirm during the next fortnight that Saddam Hussein's regime had no stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction when it was invaded last year, the Guardian newspaper said yesterday.
		The Iraq Survey Group, comprising more than 1000 mainly US intelligence and weapons experts, fanned out across Iraq in July 2003, four months after the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam.
		Blair sought to justify taking Britain into the Iraq war by citing the threat of Iraqi WMD and the danger that they might fall into terrorist hands.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2004/09/11/Foreign/aniks.html (274 words)

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