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Saturday, March 13, 2004  David
Irving comments: WE REPRODUCE this story as it is, with
no comment other than that it offers no
realistic sources for the very serious
allegation.  |
U.S. "Unloading
WMD in Iraq" TEHRAN (Mehr News Agency) --
Over the past few days, in the wake
of the bombings in Karbala and the ideological
disputes that delayed the signing of Iraq's interim
constitution, there have been reports that U.S.
forces have unloaded a large cargo of parts for
constructing long-range missiles and weapons of
mass destruction (WMD) in the southern ports of
Iraq. A reliable source from the Iraqi Governing
Council, speaking on condition of anonymity, told
the Mehr News Agency that U.S. forces, with the
help of British forces stationed in southern Iraq,
had made extensive efforts to conceal their
actions. He added that the cargo was unloaded during the
night as attention was still focused on the
aftermath of the deadly bombings in Karbala and the
signing of Iraq's interim constitution. The source said that in order to avoid
suspicion, ordinary cargo ships were used to
download the cargo, which consisted of weapons
produced in the 1980s and 1990s. He mentioned the fact that the United States had
facilitated Iraq's WMD program during the 1980-1988
Iran-Iraq and said that some of the weapons being
downloaded are similar to those weapons, although
international inspectors had announced Saddam
Hussein's Baath regime had destroyed all its
WMD. The source went on to say that the rest of the
weapons were probably transferred in vans to an
unknown location somewhere in the vicinity of Basra
overnight. "Most of these weapons
are of Eastern European origin and some parts
are from the former Soviet Union and the Eastern
Bloc. The U.S. obtained them through
confiscations during sales of banned arms over
the past two decades," he said. This action comes as certain U.S. and Western
officials have been pointing out the fact that no
weapons of mass destruction have been discovered in
Iraq and the issue of Saddam's trial begins to take
center stage. In addition, former chief UN weapons inspector
Hans Blix has emphasized that the U.S. and
British intelligence agencies issued false reports
on Iraq leading to the U.S. attack. Meanwhile, the suspicious death of weapons
inspector David Kelly is also an unresolved
issue in Britain.
Occupation
Forces Official Claims to Have No Information About
Transfer of WMD to Iraq A security official for the
coalition forces in Iraq said that he has not
received any information about the unloading of
weapons of mass destruction in ports in southern
Iraq. Shane Wolf told the Mehr News Agency that
the occupation forces have received no reports on
such events, but said he hoped that the coalition
forces would find the Iraqi weapons of mass
destruction one day. Coalition forces and inspectors have so far been
unable to find any Iraqi weapons of mass
destruction. The U.S. invaded Iraq under the
pretext that Iraq possessed a stockpile of weapons
of mass destruction.
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