Andrei Kuznetsov
4th February 2004, 21:06
The Liars War
Or the Case of the Vanishing WMDs
Revolutionary Worker #1228, February 8, 2004, posted at rwor.org (http://rwor.org/)
NPR Interviewer: "What happened to the stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons that everyone expected to find in Iraq?"
Dr. David Kay:"I don't think they exist."
In May 2003, as the Iraqi army crumbled, David Kay was picked by the CIA to seize Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).
For the last nine months of U.S. occupation, Kay headed up the Iraq Survey Group (ISG)--a mini- army of 1,400 army commandos, CIA agents, interrogators and weapons experts who searched Iraq for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons.
They checked hundreds of sites by June 2003, grilled Iraqi scientists for months, and poured over mountains of captured documents.
On January 23, David Kay resigned his post and went public: There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, he now says. And there weren't any for a long time.
Let's be precise: The U.S. teams have found no nuclear, biological or chemical weapons of any kind. No stockpiles. No facilities for producing them. No hidden SCUD missiles, or other means of launching them. No research labs developing prototypes. No mobile bio-labs. Not a barrel, not a functioning gas shell, not an ounce of uranium, not an incriminating document, not a statement from an intimidated Iraqi scientist. Nothing. Zip. Nada.
David Kay said to the Senate Armed Services Committee: "Let me begin by saying, we were almost all wrong, and I certainly include myself here."
continued @ http://rwor.org/a/1228/iraq.htm
Or the Case of the Vanishing WMDs
Revolutionary Worker #1228, February 8, 2004, posted at rwor.org (http://rwor.org/)
NPR Interviewer: "What happened to the stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons that everyone expected to find in Iraq?"
Dr. David Kay:"I don't think they exist."
In May 2003, as the Iraqi army crumbled, David Kay was picked by the CIA to seize Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).
For the last nine months of U.S. occupation, Kay headed up the Iraq Survey Group (ISG)--a mini- army of 1,400 army commandos, CIA agents, interrogators and weapons experts who searched Iraq for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons.
They checked hundreds of sites by June 2003, grilled Iraqi scientists for months, and poured over mountains of captured documents.
On January 23, David Kay resigned his post and went public: There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, he now says. And there weren't any for a long time.
Let's be precise: The U.S. teams have found no nuclear, biological or chemical weapons of any kind. No stockpiles. No facilities for producing them. No hidden SCUD missiles, or other means of launching them. No research labs developing prototypes. No mobile bio-labs. Not a barrel, not a functioning gas shell, not an ounce of uranium, not an incriminating document, not a statement from an intimidated Iraqi scientist. Nothing. Zip. Nada.
David Kay said to the Senate Armed Services Committee: "Let me begin by saying, we were almost all wrong, and I certainly include myself here."
continued @ http://rwor.org/a/1228/iraq.htm