BY JAMES TARANTO WSJ Opinion On-Line Best of the Web Today
"Saddam Hussein has relocated his chemical weapons factories after the first case of anthrax poisoning in America, in apparent anticipation of an imminent bombardment by the US-led coalition," London's Sunday Telegraph reports. "A senior Western intelligence official said that since the death of the British-born picture editor Bob Stevens in Florida on October 5, there has been a 'mass movement of weapons' to protected 'no-go' areas in the north, north-west and west of the country."
There are disagreements among former United Nations weapons inspectors over Iraq's involvement in the anthrax attacks. Scott Ritter says he doesn't think Saddam is behind them. While Baghdad "had not fully complied with its disarmament obligation, particularly in the field of biological weapons," Ritter tells the Telegraph, that failure did not "equate to a retained biological weapons capability." But the New York Post quotes Richard Spertzel, who headed the U.N. team that exposed Rihab Taha, a 45-year-old Iraqi scientist known as "Dr. Germ," as saying: "There is no question in my mind these anthrax attacks in Florida, New York and Washington involve international terrorists. And Iraq is the prime suspect as the supplier."
|
