The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/20/international/middleeast/20DEFE.html?pagew anted=print December 20, 2001 An Iraqi Defector Tells of Work on at Least 20 Hidden Weapons Sites By JUDITH MILLER n Iraqi defector who described himself as a civil engineer said he personally worked on renovations of secret facilities for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons in underground wells, private villas and under the Saddam Hussein Hospital in Baghdad as recently as a year ago.
The defector, Adnan Ihsan Saeed al-Haideri, gave details of the projects he said he worked on for President Saddam Hussein's government in an extensive interview last week in Bangkok.
Government experts said yesterday that he had also been interviewed twice by American intelligence officials, who were trying to verify his claims. One of the officials said he thought Mr. Saeed had been taken to a secure location. The experts said his information seemed reliable and significant.
The interview with Mr. Saeed was arranged by the Iraqi National Congress, the main Iraqi opposition group, which seeks the overthrow of Mr. Hussein. If verified, Mr. Saeed's allegations would provide ammunition to officials within the Bush administration who have been arguing that Mr. Hussein should be driven from power partly because of his unwillingness to stop making weapons of mass destruction, despite his pledges to do so.
Mr. Saeed's account gives new clues about the types and possible locations of illegal laboratories, facilities and storage sites that American officials and international inspectors have long suspected Iraq of trying to hide. It also suggests that Baghdad continued renovating and repairing such illegal facilities after barring international inspectors from the country three years ago. (...) -------------------------------------------
The Atta connection didn't work, Anthrax didn't work, but Israel is paying those Sharonistas to keep trying. Gotta get the US to fight the Arabs by hook or by crook. Gotta bring that US Mideast policy crashing down. Dynamite Oslo, get the US to bomb Saddam, and with a little mazzel, the US is out of the Mideast and Israel remains as the sole strategic power there.
Despite being bombed routinely Iraq is accepting IAEA inspections (recently heard this from an IAEA guy on BBC), which are not bogus, since they've already uncovered some violations: http://www.iaea.or.at/worldatom/Press/Statements/FormerDG/dgsp1991n06.html
Hakki