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...Qaqaa, nor did they destroy the ordnance, in part because their orders were to get to Baghdad and find evidence of Saddam's purported arsenal of unconventional weapons. Looters soon descended on al-Qaqaa and pilfered the remaining weaponry, ammunition and equipment. In late April IAEA's chief weapons inspector for Iraq warned the U.S. of the vulnerability of the site, and in May 2003, an internal IAEA memo warned that terrorists could be looting "the greatest explosives bonanza in history." Seventeen months later, on Oct. 10, in response to a long-standing request from the IAEA to account...
...Greenhouse. Her deputy waived a requirement that KBR provide pricing data--a move that looked "politically motivated," the letter says. The Pentagon maintains that it awarded Halliburton's Iraq contracts appropriately, as does a Halliburton spokeswoman. A senior military official says the Army "has referred the matter to the inspector general of the Department of Defense." As for Halliburton, it has faced alleged cost overruns, lost profits and seen at least 54 company contractors killed in Iraq. Greenhouse, meanwhile, has requested protection from retaliation. But her career--and reputation--are on the line...
...years ago, UN Weapons Inspector Jack McGeorge was nearly forced to resign when the Washington Post exposed his connections to SM/Leather/Fetish advocacy groups. Last month, a Kansas City Holiday Inn shut down a costume ball for fetish enthusiasts 24 hours before the event after a Fox News reporter called the hotel with a question about the party...
...concluded that "Iraq was within striking distance of a de facto end to the sanctions regime," which would have allowed Saddam to break loose and rearm. But the report also noted that Saddam "had no formal written strategy or plan for the revival of WMD after sanctions." As former inspector David Kay noted on the Today show, Saddam "had a lot of intent. He didn't have capabilities. Intent without capabilities is not an imminent threat." While Bush had always been careful not to call the threat from Iraq imminent, Duelfer's report certainly made it seem more distant...
...among them for millenniums. But the Saddam who emerges from the pages of a new, comprehensive CIA report on Iraq's alleged arsenal will be remembered for the colossal misjudgments that cost him his rule. The exhaustive detail compiled by the report's author, Charles Duelfer, chief U.N. weapons inspector in the 1990s and the Bush Administration's top hunter since January, richly fills in the previous portrait of a paranoid and brutal dictator who believed that weapons of mass destruction (WMD) were the prime tools with which to advance his extravagant ambitions. Drawn from lengthy interrogations of the core...