The Kay report says…
There's no WMD in Iraq. That's what they told me on NPR last night, and that's what my newspaper said this morning, and I can trust them right?
Apparently not.
Andrew Sullivan has read the report and excerpted it here.
A couple of highlights to whet your appetite:
- New research on BW-applicable agents, Brucella and Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), and continuing work on ricin and aflatoxin were not declared to the UN.
- A line of UAVs not fully declared at an undeclared production facility and an admission that they had tested one of their declared UAVs out to a range of 500 km, 350 km beyond the permissible limit. A cardboard drone that flies 500km? Impressive!< /sarcasm>
- One noteworthy example is a collection of reference strains that ought to have been declared to the UN. Among them was a vial of live C. botulinum Okra B. from which a biological agent can be produced. This discovery - hidden in the home of a BW scientist - illustrates the point I made earlier about the difficulty of locating small stocks of material that can be used to covertly surge production of deadly weapons. The scientist who concealed the vials containing this agent has identified a large cache of agents that he was asked, but refused, to conceal. ISG is actively searching for this second cache.But if it was hidden under some bushes, it was harmless, right?
Read Sullivan, then read the report for yourself. Then tell me that there's no bias in the media.
Posted by Rich at October 3, 2003 10:43 PM
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