Britian’s Dossier
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Here are the money quotes from Britian’s dossier on Iraq.
In a British dossier of evidence about Iraq’s development of weapons of mass destruction, the British government judges that Iraq has:
_Continued to produce chemical and biological agents.
_Military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, including against its own Shia population. Some of these weapons are deployable within 45 minutes of an order to use them.
_Command and control arrangements in place to use chemical and biological weapons.
_Developed mobile laboratories for military use.
_Pursued illegal programs to procure controlled materials of potential use in the production of chemical and biological weapons programs.
_Tried covertly to acquire technology and materials which could be used in the production of nuclear weapons.
_Sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa, despite having no active civil nuclear power program that could require it.
_Recalled specialists to work on its nuclear program.
_Illegally retained up to 20 al-Hussein missiles, with a range of 400 miles, capable of carrying chemical or biological warheads.
_Started deploying its al-Samoud liquid propellant missile, and has used the absence of weapons inspectors to work on extending its range to at least 125 miles, which is beyond the limit of 90 miles imposed by the United Nations.
_Started producing the solid-propellant Ababil-100, and is making efforts to extend its range to at least 125 miles, which is beyond the limit of 90 miles imposed by the United Nations.
_Constructed a new engine test stand for the development of missiles capable of reaching the U.K. Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus and NATO ( news - web sites) members (Greece and Turkey), as well as all Iraq’s Gulf neighbors and Israel.
_Pursued illegal programs to procure materials for use in its illegal development of long range missiles.
_Learned lessons from previous U.N. weapons inspections and already begun to conceal sensitive equipment and documentation in advance of the return of inspectors.