WMD Update
From The Age:A scientist describes Saddam's weapons and stealth technology programs, reports Russell Skelton.
For seven years, before he was tortured and sentenced to death, Rashid (not his real name) worked at the top of Iraq's scientific establishment. He says he regularly met Saddam Hussein and his cousin and strongman deputy prime minister Abdul Tawab Huweish. After the Gulf War he was put in charge of a taskforce code named "Al Babel" to develop stealth technology to make aircraft and missiles undetectable on radar.
Rashid, who now lives in Melbourne, also claims to have had access as a trusted insider to secret underground bunkers where chemical weapons were stored. "Saddam gave me access to everything, he was so desperate to perfect the stealth technology," he says.
Now Rashid's great fear is that Saddam loyalists still active in postwar Iraq may get to the chemicals and weapons he saw hidden away before fleeing for his life.
"If those weapons still exist, the worry is that they will be used against the Iraqi people, the US forces or even sold off to al-Qaeda. Maybe those weapons no longer exist, but I find it hard to believe they could disappear so easily," he says.
Matt's Chat
The questions are still out there...Mark's Remarks
Why isn't this story being told? Are the media so afraid of being proven wrong in their smearing yet again? And at what cost? Will we have to wait til Saddam's old weapons are used on us, or the Iraqis? The search must go on...Don't fall for the liberal "Sean Penn(what in the blue hell does he know about international relations anyway) endorsed" view that there are no and never were weapons. Too many people had knowledge, intelligence, etc....not just in the US but around the world. It is only the liberal smokescreen, dodge, and smear machine that wants to lay off the search, that wants to keep our "friends" the French from being implicated. Don't fall for this sad display of liberals sticking their heads in the customary position for liberals.....(you figure it out)
