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	Disarming Saddam, one word at a time. By Christopher Hitchens
		The main weapon in the first instance was the helicopter-gunship, and the chief one in the second instance was high explosive.
		Mass destruction of humans and resources was the outcome in each case, but this tells us little about the weaponry (while telling us a good deal about the regime).
		The existence of weapons of indiscriminate destruction, or weapons of mass terror, might be inferred from the profile of any modern government.
	www.slate.com /id/2076026 (1238 words)

	Band Weapons of Mass Distruction
		Applied in concert with a second piccolo of slightly higher or lower pitch, the weapons produce the effect of an ice pick through the eardrum and may cause profuse bleeding of the aural cavity.
		Considered low-grade weapons, these clarinets are of limited lethality due to the extreme geekiness of their operators.
		Use of trombonists as weapons was outlawed by the Geneva Convention in 1999 after an ugly incident at a Dixieland convention in Sacramento.
	www.angelfire.com /band/laughs/weapons.html (1834 words)

	World Hunger Notes -- Humanitarian Response to Weapons of Mass Distruction by Charles Kelly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Compared to conventional weapons, the impact of a weapon of mass destruction is more likely to be indiscriminate: to include noncombatant populations, even living far from the weapons’ main target.
		Many WMD agents cause indirect or delayed health impacts, not the least of which is the psychological impact of a person not knowing whether he or she has been exposed or infected.
		Because significant WMD risks are not immediately apparent (without lab testing, for example), it will be difficult for field offices to know when or where they can deploy their teams.
	www.worldhunger.org /articles/03/global/kellyweaponsmassdest.htm (2177 words)

	Cannot find Weapons of Mass Destruction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The weapons you are looking for are currently unavailable.
		The country might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your weapons inspectors mandate.
		Bush went to Iraq to look for Weapons of Mass Destruction and all he found was this lousy T-shirt.
	www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk (219 words)

	Musings from the Back Room
		AP - Fallen Iraqi President Saddam Hussein did not have stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, but left signs that he had idle programs he someday hoped to revive, the top U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq concludes in a draft report due out soon.
		Anyone who finds this a surprise, please raise your hand...then go and start reading all the reports from the 1990s that said there were no weapons of mass distruction found even then.
		Weapons that 90% of the county (at least the 90% that isn't polled) knew were not there.
	radio.weblogs.com /0138166/categories/rants/2004/09/17.html (151 words)

	Coastal Post Online
		Both states are in possession of massive arsenal's of weapons of varying degrees of lethality, from those that merely incapacitate, to those designed to destroy the largest cities on earth, indiscriminately killing everyone and making ordinary life impossible for centuries to come.
		To whom to sell their weapons is the only apparent area in which the military establishments of the two partners occasionally disagree publicly.
		Weapons industries are an important part of the economies of both countries and military officials from the armed forces of each frequently take lucrative positions as officials and consultants to their weapons industries when they retire, being thus in good positions to influence their former subordinates and friends they left behind-until their turn comes.
	www.coastalpost.com /02/11/01.htm (1371 words)

	Is the Search for WMDs Over? After Eight Months with No Discoveries, Mission Chief Quits
		In a setback to the so far fruitless hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the head of the US search team, David Kay, told administration officials he is leaving the job as early as next month, US officials said Dec. 18, 2003.
		Weapons of mass destruction, and even weapons programs, are no longer being put forward as the reason for the invasion.
		Mr Kay himself sounds increasingly doubtful that chemical or biological weapons will be found, and is said to be resentful that the US military was less than helpful to his experts, preferring to prioritize the counter-insurgency.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines03/1219-04.htm (941 words)

	Bush takes responsibility for Niger claim
		Actually, it is the "weapons of mass distruction" hypocrisy that goads me..
		Hussein's supposed weapons of mass distruction, appears to have...
		Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass distruction is 'an issue we...
	www.apfn.net /MESSAGEBOARD/8-05-03/discussion.cgi.17.html (1104 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP Saddam Hussein destroyed his last weapons of mass destruction more than a decade ago and his capacity to build new ones had been dwindling for years by the time of the Iraq invasion, according to a comprehensive US report released yesterday.
		Tony Blair said that the report showed Saddam was seeking to develop weapons of mass destruction and had retained key scientists to do so.
		According to Mr Duelfer, Saddam saw WMD primarily as a counterbalance to Iran's programmes.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1321538,00.html (1063 words)

	Prime Minister warns of continuing global terror threat
		In the period from 24 September to 29 May, the date of the BBC broadcast on it, it was raised twice in almost 40,000 written Parliamentary Questions in the House of Commons; and not once in almost 5,000 oral questions.
		The truth is, as was abundantly plain in the motion before the House of Commons on 18 March, we went to war to enforce compliance with UN Resolutions.
		This is not a time to err on the side of caution; not a time to weigh the risks to an infinite balance; not a time for the cynicism of the worldly wise who favour playing it long.
	www.pm.gov.uk /output/Page5461.asp (7987 words)

	The Error of American Policy in Relation to Iraq
		The further irony of the situation, is the claim that Iraq has "weapons of mass distruction." Iraq "may" have weapons of mass distruction, whereas North Korea has annouced repeatedly that they have many weapons of mass distruction stocked, which the United States chooses to ignore.
		Further more, the weapons that Iraq may have are not weapons it designed and created by their own means- they were obtained from the United States previously to enable Iraq to defend itself against the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979 after the Shah of Iran was overthrown.
		There is no realistic cause, the claims of Iraqi weapons of mass distruction cannot be supported and the cost to the United Nations and the Iraqi people are too high.
	www.brigids-haven.com /brigid/iraq.html (1173 words)

	Bush takes responsibilty for Niger claim
		In a letter to the Commons foreign affairs committee (FAC), it insisted there had been no need to include a "health warning" on the claim in the government's dossier on Iraqi weapons as it was confident in the underlying intelligence.
		It said: "The discovery was significant both in terms of Iraq retaining components for a nuclear programme, and as an example of successful concealment from UN inspectors".
		Response to the Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction...
	www.apfn.net /MESSAGEBOARD/8-07-03/discussion.cgi.83.html (1104 words)

	Vilified weapons inspectors may have got it right - War on Iraq - smh.com.au
		"The fact is that we are beginning to see a kind of pattern on how Iraq may have hidden its weapons of mass destruction from the outside world for all of these years," she said this week.
		When his inspectors talked of a more complex search for WMD, where components or precursors could be in the form of legal, dual-use chemical or biological agents that had to be monitored, they were dismissed as flatfooted and overcautious.
		It was about whether Saddam was trying to maintain the core of a WMD program, both raw ingredients and scientific expertise, which he could reconstitute when the world got tired of containing him.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/04/30/1051381997497.html (809 words)

	UGN Security BBS: US Admits Saddam May Have Had No WMD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		His argument is that if the Americans are now saying that they got it wrong on Iraqs WMD, and the UK shared the same pre-war intelligence, the British government should revise their opinion in line with the revised US one.
		Yeah, Bush knew that there wern't any weapons of mass distruction in Iraq, from the very beggining, because there isn't any logic in sending thousands of troops into a country that can destroy them like that.
		Anyway we knew they did/do have WMD because we used to be silent allies with IRAQ and Sadam and friends.
	www.undergroundnews.com /cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=print_topic;f=32;t=000380 (1068 words)

	Marxism message, Vanishing Weapons of Mass Distruction
		And for the first time the U.S. mass media is beginning to ask pointed questions about President Bush's rationale for launching a preemptive war, creating a new opportunity for peace forces.
		The absence of proof that Iraq was in recent possession of WMD — a fact exposed many months before the war by the international antiwar and left movements, and a topic of considerable speculation in a number of foreign newspapers — has finally penetrated the consciousness of sectors of the U.S. corporate mass media.
		Another reason the White House "settled" on WMD as the required pretext was that its previous demand for regime-change (i.e., arrogating to itself the right to violently topple governments that cultivated Bush's displeasure) was rejected by virtually all other countries.
	archives.econ.utah.edu /archives/marxism/2003w22/msg00177.htm (1008 words)

	Pakistani Scientist Supplied Nuclear Weapons Technology to Syria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Syria maintains nuclear facilities in three places- Dayr, al Hajar and Dubaya, said the "721 report", named after a law that requires intelligence establishment to report to Congress about acquisitions of weapons of mass destruction and advanced conventional munitions by various countries.
		Describing China as a "key supplier" of nuclear, missile and weapons of mass destruction goods to nations of concern, the US intelligence report also said that Chinese companies "continued to work" with Pakistan and Iran on ballistic missile related projects.
		The 721 reports are unclassified updates given to Congress by the US Intelligence establishment on acquisition of technology related to weapons of mass distruction and advanced conventional munitions.
	www.aina.org /news/20060513123213.htm (434 words)

	Iraqs weapons of mass distruction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In March, Vice President Cheney asserted that Saddam "has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons." Colin Powell claimed at the UN to possess clear evidence that huge stocks of everything from sarin gas to anthrax to sanction-violating missiles were stored in Iraq, ready for use.
		Chemical weapons require vast industrial infrastructure to make, and another industrial infrastructure to build the means to deliver the chemical agents.
		Plants that make VX, for instance, cannot be hidden, they discharge residual elements into the atmosphere that would have been immediately detectable by the UN teams, or by foreign intelligence establishments watching Iraq like falcons waiting to pounce but their combined resources produced not one piece of evidence.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/anarchism/writers/anarcho/war/iraq/oncemore.html (3543 words)

	Weapons of Mass Destruction/Terrorism Planning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		We usually think of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction as related to radical groups located overseas in countries with hard to pronounce names.
		Terrorists strike at their ideological enemies with variety of weapons and are not a threat to us.
		Planning for terrorism and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) follows the same process as planning for hurricanes, floods, tornados, hazardous materials and the like.
	www.collierem.org /wmd.htm (618 words)

	Biological Weapons Program - 2003 Prewar Assessments
		Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Assessment of the British Government" September 24, 2002
		We judge that we are seeing only a portion of Iraq's WMD efforts, owing to Baghdad's vigorous denial and deception efforts.
		After the lies about the weapons of mass destruction which do not exist and the alleged links with al-Qa’eda, it seems that this new lie is aimed at giving a new fake pretext to justify the crime of the century: the invasion of Iraq.”
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/iraq/bw-prewar2003.htm (2162 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| US and UK stand by WMD claims
		US Secretary of State Colin Powell said he believed the evidence was overwhelming that Iraq had the weapons and that it continued to develop weapons programmes after UN inspectors left in 1998.
		Because of Iraq's prior use of such weapons, against Iran and against the Kurds, it was perfectly appropriate for the international community to insist on regime change, Mr Powell said.
		Mr Powell has pointed out that he spent four days and nights going through the evidence with the CIA before he went to the UN, in order to convince himself that it was solid information.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/2956112.stm (471 words)

	FindLaw's Writ - Dean: Missing Weapons Of Mass Destruction
		After all, no weapons of mass destruction have been found, and given Bush's statements, they should not have been very hard to find - for they existed in large quantities, "thousands of tons" of chemical weapons alone.
		One is that [the WMDs] were spirited out of Iraq, which maybe is the worst of all possibilities, because now the very thing that we were trying to avoid, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, could be in the hands of dozens of groups.
		Or third, that the intelligence was satisfactory but that it was manipulated, so as just to present to the American people and to the world those things that made the case for the necessity of war against Iraq.
	writ.news.findlaw.com /dean/20030606.html (2507 words)

	Ex-CIA Professionals: Weapons of Mass Distraction: Where? Find? Plant?
		The media have raised the possibility that the US might “plant” weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and that this may be another reason to keep UN inspectors out.
		More directly relevant to the current search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is the following incident, which was related to the author at the time by one of the main participants.
		Neither weapons nor Nicaraguans traceable to the boats were ever found, but Washington drew attention to the fact that the wood from which the boats were made was not native to El Salvador.
	www.commondreams.org /views03/0425-11.htm (2462 words)

	Arab Media 'Unconvinced' After Powell's Presentation \| INS News
		The region is calling for weapons inspectors to continue their search for arms of mass destruction in Iraq.
		Powell's new elements "did not amount to convincing evidence," and said weapons inspectors should be given more time.
		Egypt's weekly Al Ahram said the secretary of state presented a "series of dots" that need to be connected, calling Mr.
	www.insnews.org /world/focus/2003/02/iraq.arab.media.htm (247 words)

	Iraqi Chemical Weapons Program - 2003 Prewar Assessments
		Iraq was stockpiling chemical weapons and that equipment to produce insecticides, under the oil-for-food program, had been diverted to covert chemical weapons production.
		In July 1998, weapons inspectors found documents--now commonly known as the "Air Force Documents"--that detailed Iraqi CW use in the Iran-Iraq War.
		Though both of these revelations concerned Iraq's pre-1991 CW effort, analysts saw them as lending support to the assessment that Iraq was continuing its deliberate efforts to obscure elements of its CW capabilities.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/iraq/cw-prewar2003.htm (1460 words)

	Iraq WMD - Schema-Root (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The 1,700-strong Iraq Survey Group, responsible for the hunt, last month wrapped up physical searches for weapons of mass destruction, and it will now gather information to help U.S. forces in Iraq win a bloody guerrilla war, officials said on Wednesday.
		Bush said "we need to find out what went wrong in the intelligence gathering," and that the invasion was "absolutely" worth it even if there were no weapons of mass destruction.
		Charles Duelfer, the CIA special adviser who led the ISG's weapons search, has returned home and is expected next month to issue a final addendum to his September report concluding that prewar Iraq had no WMD stockpiles, officials said.
	schema-root.org /region/middle_east/iraq/weapons_of_mass_destruction (1052 words)

	Foiled al-Qaida Attackers Caught Red-Handed With WMDs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The discovery of the al-Qaida WMD plot is sure to renew speculation that some of Saddam Hussein's missing weapons of mass destruction were hidden in Syria before the U.S. attacked in March 2003, and have now found their way into al-Qaida's hands.
		Jordan's King Abdullah revealed on Saturday that vehicles reportedly containing chemical weapons and poison gas that were part of a deadly al-Qaida bomb plot came from Syria, the country named by U.S. weapons inspector David Kay last year as a likely repository for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
		The fear that Saddam could produce nuclear weapons was cited by congressional Democrats two years ago when they voted to authorize the Bush administration to go to war in Iraq.
	www.papillonsartpalace.com /foiledal.htm (5055 words)

	Bush satisfied with progress in war
		Bush told reporters on his return from Camp David to the White House on Sunday that the air campaign is achieving its objective and so are the ground troops.
		Asked whether he is surprised that the enemy has not used any weapons of mass destruction, Bush replied: "I am thankful that the enemy has not used any.
		Irrespective of the fact that Saddam has weapons of mass distruction or otherwise, what measures has bush taken towards reduction of weapons of mass distruction...
	www.rediff.com /us/2003/mar/24bush.htm (724 words)

	CNN.com - U.S.: North Korea admits nuke program - Oct. 15, 2002
		North Korea has revealed to the U.S. that it has a secret and active nuclear weapons program after it promised to never again pursue such a course.
		North Korea promised to give up its nuclear weapons program and allow inspections to verify that it did not have the material such weapons would require.
		The official said Kelly told Kang that the United States knew the country had a secret nuclear weapons program using "different technology" from that used prior to 1994, and that North Korea had saved enough plutonium for at least two nuclear weapons.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/US/10/16/us.nkorea (1206 words)

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