Powell admits "mobile weapons factory" scam

[Harmon Seaver]

Here's another meme on the issue:

>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.
>~~~~~~~~~~
>And, the url to Ira's story:
>http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0318-04.htm
>
>Ira Chernus is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of
>Colorado at Boulder. chernus at colorado.edu


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