Middle
East News Agency
Teheran, April 12, 2004 New
Reports on U.S. Planting WMDs in Iraq BASRA, April 12 (MNA) -- Fifty
days after the first reports that the U.S. forces
were unloading weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in
southern Iraq, new reports about the movement of
these weapons have been disclosed.  David
Irving comments: THE SOURCE of the main
story is an Iranian news agency, so be on
guard: Caveat lector.
We do recall
however President Bush speaking as
follows, during his recent press
conference at The White House. Almost as
though he knew something might soon be
"found":
THE
PRESIDENT: I wish you would have given me
this written question ahead of time, so I
could plan for it. (Laughter.)
John, I'm sure
historians will look back and say, gosh,
he could have done it better this way, or
that way. You know, I just -- I'm sure
something will pop into my head here in
the midst of this press conference, with
all the pressure of trying to come up with
an answer, but it hadn't yet.
I would have gone into
Afghanistan the way we went into
Afghanistan. Even knowing what I know
today about the stockpiles of weapons, I
still would have called upon the world to
deal with Saddam Hussein.
See, I happen to believe
that we'll find out the truth on the
weapons. That's why we've sent up the
independent commission. I look forward to
hearing the truth, exactly where they
are.
They could still be
there. They could be hidden, like the 50
tons of mustard gas in a turkey
farm. The Iranian news story was published
before Bush spoke the above
words.. |
Sources in Iraq speculate that
occupation forces are using the recent unrest in
Iraq to divert attention from their surreptitious
shipments of WMD into the country.An Iraqi source close to the Basra Governor's
Office told the MNA that new information shows that
a large part of the WMD, which was secretly brought
to southern and western Iraq over the past month,
are in containers falsely labeled as containers of
the Maersk shipping company and some consignments
bearing the labels of organizations such as the Red
Cross or the USAID in order to disguise them as
relief shipments. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity,
added that Iraqi officials including forces loyal
to the Iraqi Governing Council stationed in
southern Iraq have been forbidden from inspecting
or supervising the transportation of these
consignments. He went on to say that the occupation
forces have ordered Iraqi officials to forward any
questions on the issue to the coalition forces.
Even the officials of the international relief
organizations have informed the Iraqi officials
that they would only accept responsibility for
relief shipments which have been registered and
managed by their organizations. The Iraqi source also confirmed the report about
suspicious trucks with fake Saudi and Jordanian
license plates entering Iraq at night last week,
stressing that the Saudi and Jordanian border
guards did not attempt to inspect the trucks but
simply delivered them to the U.S. and British
forces stationed on Iraq's borders. However, the source expressed ignorance whether
the governments of Saudi Arabia and Jordan were
aware of such movements. A professor of physics at Baghdad University
also told the MNA correspondent that a group of his
colleagues who are highly specialized in military,
chemical and biological fields have been either
bribed or threatened during the last weeks to
provide written information on what they know about
various programs and research centers and the
possible storage of WMD equipment. The professor also said these people have been
openly asked to confirm or deny the existence of
research or related WMD equipment. A large number
of these scientists, who are believed to be under
the surveillance of U.S. intelligence operatives,
have claimed that if they refuse to comply with
this request, they may be killed or arrested on
charges of concealing the truth if these weapons
are found by the Bush administration in the
future. He said that the Iraqi scientists believe their
lives would be in danger if they decline to
cooperate with the occupation forces, especially
when they recall that senior U.S. officer
Michael Peterson once said, "Iraqi
scientists are at any case a threat to the U.S.
administration, whether they talk or not." A source close to the Iraqi Governing Council
said, "In the meantime, many suspect
containers disguised as fuel supplies have been
moved about by some units of the U.S. special
forces. The move has been carried out under
heavy security measures. Also, there are
unofficial reports that the containers held
biological and bacteriological toxins in liquid
form. It is possible that the news about the
discovery of the WMDs would be announced later." He also said that such mixtures had been used by
the Saddam regime in the 1990s. The source added that some provocative actions
such as the closure of Al-Hawza periodical by U.S.
administrator Paul Bremer, the secret
meetings between his envoys with some extremist
groups who have no relations with the Iraqi
Governing Council, the sudden upsurge in violence
in central and southern Iraq, a number of
activities which have stoked up the wrath of the
prominent Shia clerics, and finally, the spate of
kidnappings and the baseless charges against the
Iranian charge d'affaires in Baghdad are providing
the necessary smokescreen for the transportation of
the WMD to their intended locations. He said they are quite aware that the White
House in cooperation with the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) has directly tasked the Defense
Department to hide these weapons. Given the recent
scandals to the effect that the U.S. president was
privy to the 9/11 plot, they might try to
immediately announce the discovery of weapons of
mass destruction in Iraq in order to overshadow the
scandals and prevent a further decline of Bush's
public opinion rating as the election
approaches. MNA 
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