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Oops! U.N. experts find 20 banned Iraq missile engines in Jordan scrapyards
2004-06-10
via SFGate - EFL
And then there were the engines found in a Rotterdam scrapyard...

EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer
(06-09) 20:30 PDT UNITED NATIONS (AP)

U.N. weapons experts have found 20 engines used in banned Iraqi missiles in a Jordan scrapyard along with other equipment which could be used to make weapons of mass destruction, an official said Wednesday.

The discoveries were revealed to the U.N. Security Council by acting chief U.N. inspector Demetrius Perricos during in a closed-door briefing. The text was obtained by The Associated Press. The U.N. team was following up on an earlier discovery of a similar Al Samoud 2 engine in a scrapyard in the Dutch port of Rotterdam. Perricos said inspectors also want to check in Turkey, which has also received scrap metal from Iraq.

The discoveries raise questions about the fate of material and equipment that could be used to produce biological and chemical weapons as well as banned long-range missiles. The missile engines and some other equipment discovered in the scrapyards had been monitored by U.N. inspectors because of their potential dual use in both legitimate civilian activities and banned weapons production.

In his briefing to the Security Council, Perricos said U.N. inspectors do not how much material has been removed from Iraq that they had been monitoring.

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UNSCOM: Iraq? Nope. We looked for 3 months! There’s nothing there!
That’s because it was shipped out. To Jordan. To Syria. To ???
Lol! Saddam has to have been one of the smartest stupidest smart stupid dictatwitters ever. They were all over e-Bay! $19.95 + shipping. I got a couple for next 4th July. Lol!
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#8  Dan : Hans Blix has been busy campaigning for John Kerry.
Posted by: BigEd   2004-06-10 3:01:12 PM  

#7  he's said plenty, just most of it self-serving denial and lies and Anti-American/Anti-war crap
Posted by: Frank G   2004-06-10 11:10:14 AM  

#6  it isn't over till the fat lady sings..and ole hans hasn't sung a note...
Posted by: Dan   2004-06-10 10:55:29 AM  

#5  Everybody got their red shoes on? Everybody ready? Now click 3 times--there WERE no weapons transported across the border, there WERE no weapons transported across the border, there WERE no weapons transported across the border...
Posted by: jules 187   2004-06-10 10:06:28 AM  

#4  LOL! I got a couple for next 4th July.
Posted by: B   2004-06-10 9:20:21 AM  

#3  "...had been monitored by U.N. inspectors because of their potential dual use..." I haven't had my coffee yet, so I can't think of what "dual use" Saddam may have had in mind.
Posted by: Tom   2004-06-10 7:59:52 AM  

#2  Yesterday I read an article, which I didn't bother to post here, reporting a similar find in a junkyard in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Posted by: Mike Sylwester   2004-06-10 7:12:52 AM  

#1  Calling Hans Blix, calling Hans Blix
Posted by: Mark Espinola   2004-06-10 2:10:06 AM  

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