NP - Clear As Mud

[David Morris]

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/03/international/worldspecial/03INSP.html

U.N. Inspectors Say Baghdad Never Resolved Arms Issues

UNITED NATIONS, June 2 — The United Nations weapons inspection office provided
a postscript to its truncated mission today, suggesting in a new report that
many open questions remain about whether and when Saddam Hussein's government
destroyed its chemical and biological agents.

The report by the office of Hans Blix, the executive chairman of the United
Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, also noted that
none of the vehicles on Iraqis' prewar list of "legitimate vehicles" that could
be mistaken for mobile biological weapons labs bore any resemblance to the two
mobile facilities found recently in Iraq.

Overall, the report said, despite some late and limited Iraqi cooperation, "the
long list of proscribed items unaccounted for and as such resulting in
unresolved disarmament issues was neither shortened by the inspections, nor by
Iraqi declarations and documents." In particular, the report said, there was no
clear evidence how much anthrax and VX nerve gas Iraq had possessed, and how
much it had destroyed.


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