Tuesday, August 26, 2003

THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO HMM
Iraqi weapons data slipped through U.S. hands


Former weapons inspector Scott Ritter on Iraqi records that the US Army mysteriously lost:

Still, even if one was to discount the entire archive as simply a collection of Iraqi falsifications, it would still be a sound foundation on which the Iraq Survey Group could have started investigations. After all, some of my most fruitful efforts as a U.N. inspector were initiated using false claims by the Iraqi government as the starting point.

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Rather, these staff members have told me, after occupying the facility for two weeks, the American soldiers simply withdrew. Soon after, looters entered the facility and ransacked it. Overnight, every computer was stolen, disks and video records were destroyed, and the carefully organized documents were ripped from their binders and either burned or scattered about. According to the ex-brigadier general, who went back to the building after the mob had gone, some Iraqi scientists did their best to recover and reconstitute what they could, but for most of the archive the damage was irreversible.

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