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...Pentagon has repeatedly complained to the U.N. about suspected bio agents being shuffled around Iraq in ?refrigerator vans.? Chief U.N. arms inspector Dr. Hans Blix told the Security Council in February that his teams ?had been unable to track down the refrigerator vans in question...
...They (the weapons) could be in railroad cars, barges or refrigerator trucks. They are being kept on the move,? explained the former arms inspector. The arms expert says by keeping the weapons on the move, they make an attack by coalition forces more difficult. Furthermore, he explained they could be shifted around the country as ?conditions warrant...
...inspector says that the Pentagon must be careful not to fall into an Iraqi trap. He suspects that the movement of substantial numbers of Iraqi Republican Guard units southwards from Baghdad to confront advancing U.S. forces may be an attempt to create a battlefield situation favorable to the use of weapons of mass destruction. ?If Iraq still has chemical weapons it wants to use,? he says, ?it would want to cause as much damage as possible in one short attack. Therefore, the U.S. needs to be careful not to amass large numbers of troops in any central location.? The most...
...However, says the U.N. inspector, ?the Iraqis have problems delivering their WMD in a militarily effective manner.? He reveals that more than 70% of Baghdad's declared and suspected WMD were in ?aerial? form-meaning they were designed to be delivered by aircraft. Since Operation Desert Storm, the Iraqi Air Force has almost ceased to exist. The U.N. inspector also added that any biological weapons that Iraq might still possess would ?not cause much of a problem for the U.S. forces.? He explained that the Pentagon is familiar with most or all of Baghdad's suspected bio weapons...
...political need to show they exist. President Bush and Tony Blair have insisted that this war is an act of preemptive self-defense against Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, while most of the UN Security Council remains unconvinced. Even as the first air strikes began, chief UN weapons inspector Dr. Hans Blix publicly chided U.S. "impatience" to go to war, and questioned the veracity of U.S. and British claims on Iraq's weapons programs. The geopolitics of the post-Saddam era will be made considerably easier for Bush and Blair if they can get some egg on Blix's face...