inamerrata

Not long after I linked to the Yahoo story about confirmed bioweapons labs in Iraq last year, it disappeared. Let’s see if the same thing happens to this World Net Daily story that even includes pictures. These are almost certainly the trucks that the Duelfer report is talking about when it says:

[The Iraq Survey Group] thoroughly examined two trailers captured in 2003, suspected of being mobile [bioweapons] agent production units, and investigated the associated evidence. ISG judges that its Iraqi makers almost certainly designed and built the equipment exclusively for the generation of hydrogen. It is impractical to use the equipment for the production and weaponization of [bioweapons] agent. ISG judges that it cannot therefore be part of any [bioweapons] program.

The short summary of the Duelfer report is actually quite readable, and reasonably brief. It’s also a much more thorough and two-sided summary of the background than, eg, the Sydney Morning Herald’s take:

A report published last week by the CIA’s chief weapons investigator in Iraq, Charles Duelfer, concluded that Saddam Hussein destroyed his stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons in the early 1990s and never tried to rebuild them. But a little-noticed section of the 960-page report warns that the danger of a “devastating” attack with unconventional weapons has grown since the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq last year.