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| Trancer-X |
For Scary Halloween Reading, Dig Deeper into the Duelfer Report
By Michael Roston
America received a frightening jolt when the International Atomic Energy Agency announced that heavy-duty explosives perfectly suited for terrorist bombing attacks had gone missing from critical sites in Iraq. But a far more terrifying revelation was made in the Central Intelligence Agency’s publicly released Duelfer Report on October 6. It took some effort, but anyone who dug deep enough into this document submitted by Charles Duelfer, fully titled the Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence on Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction, found reading far more scary than any of the ghost stories you might hear this Halloween.
If you thought the missing explosives were bad, just turn to the annex labeled “Al-Abud Network” buried in the report’s third volume. In plain language, the Iraq Survey Group reports on the activities of insurgents who worked with a civilian Iraqi chemist to build chemical weapons to use against Coalition forces. Fortunately, these insurgents foundered before they were caught by U.S.-led troops. But, the report menacingly warns that al-Abud is “not the only group planning or attempting to produce or acquire CBW agents … availability of chemicals and materials dispersed throughout the country, and intellectual capital from the former WMD programs increases the future threat to Coalition Forces.”
So, since we toppled Saddam Hussein for threatening us with WMD that weren’t there, terrorists in Iraq have started working with Saddam’s intellectual dream team to build new WMD to use against American forces?
Michael Roston ([email protected]) is a graduate student at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and an analyst for Foreign Policy In Focus (http://www.fpif.org). He previously covered the issue of Iraqi scientists for the Russian American Nuclear Security Advisory Council. This article represents his own personal views.
See new FPIF commentary online at:
http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2004/0410halloween.html
With printer friendly PDF version at:
http://www.fpif.org/pdf/gac/0410halloween.pdf
For More Information:
Duelfer Report:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/iraq_wmd_2004/ |
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| ierxium |
| Three volumes. That's going to be an long and interesting read. |
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| speedracer_mec |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trancer-X
For Scary Halloween Reading, Dig Deeper into the Duelfer Report
By Michael Roston
America received a frightening jolt when the International Atomic Energy Agency announced that heavy-duty explosives perfectly suited for terrorist bombing attacks had gone missing from critical sites in Iraq. But a far more terrifying revelation was made in the Central Intelligence Agency’s publicly released Duelfer Report on October 6. It took some effort, but anyone who dug deep enough into this document submitted by Charles Duelfer, fully titled the Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence on Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction, found reading far more scary than any of the ghost stories you might hear this Halloween.
If you thought the missing explosives were bad, just turn to the annex labeled “Al-Abud Network” buried in the report’s third volume. In plain language, the Iraq Survey Group reports on the activities of insurgents who worked with a civilian Iraqi chemist to build chemical weapons to use against Coalition forces. Fortunately, these insurgents foundered before they were caught by U.S.-led troops. But, the report menacingly warns that al-Abud is “not the only group planning or attempting to produce or acquire CBW agents … availability of chemicals and materials dispersed throughout the country, and intellectual capital from the former WMD programs increases the future threat to Coalition Forces.”
So, since we toppled Saddam Hussein for threatening us with WMD that weren’t there, terrorists in Iraq have started working with Saddam’s intellectual dream team to build new WMD to use against American forces?
Michael Roston ([email protected]) is a graduate student at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and an analyst for Foreign Policy In Focus (http://www.fpif.org). He previously covered the issue of Iraqi scientists for the Russian American Nuclear Security Advisory Council. This article represents his own personal views.
See new FPIF commentary online at:
http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2004/0410halloween.html
With printer friendly PDF version at:
http://www.fpif.org/pdf/gac/0410halloween.pdf
For More Information:
Duelfer Report:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/iraq_wmd_2004/ |
go to the U.N.-Oil-For-Food scandal section
definitely a frightful read |
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| Q5echo |
| the mere fact Trancer-X is in referrence to the Duelfer report is more revealing, IMO. |
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| Trancer-X |
| quote: | Originally posted by Q5echo
the mere fact Trancer-X is in referrence to the Duelfer report is more revealing, IMO. |
I'm still trying to figure out what the hell you just said. |
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| policerobots |
the report is HUGE.
i downloaded it and its like 1500 pages or something |
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| Trancer-X |
| quote: | Originally posted by policerobots
the report is HUGE.
i downloaded it and its like 1500 pages or something |
Well, get crackin' and maybe if you can begin to think for yourself - you'll be entitled to remove the "robot" inference from your screen name. ;) |
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| x-filer |
| Why can't you just summarize the report for us? |
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