Proves once again, that Saddam plays the game way better then the inspectors. What else is new? That's exactly why we have 250,000 more inspectors on Iraq border ready to start real inspections. I mean, you do not really think Iraq is free of WMD, do you?
skeptic123:`I mean, you do not really think Iraq is free of WMD, do you?´ yes, that´s what i think - not so sure about the USA though
Not a single person in USA believes Iraq has no WMD. Even the most ardent and the most idiotic anti-war people have no illusions that Saddam did not destroy anything, they just do not think it is worth fighting for. As far as you are concerned... Wow, I am speechless, you really do believe that Saddam voluntarily wasted huge amounts of perfectly good weapons. You are the second person on this planet to claim it. The first of course is Saddam, but he at least knows better. That does explain a lot in your behaviour though.
WASHINGTON - Iraqi fighter jets threatened two American U-2 surveillance planes, forcing them to abort their mission and return to base, senior U.S. officials said Tuesday. In Baghdad, an Iraqi official described the incident as a "technical mistake" by the U.N. inspectors. Ewen Buchanan, spokesman for UNMOVIC, the U.N. inspection agency, said Iraq (news - web sites) officials had been notified of the timing of the flight, but "they expressed surprise and concern that two flights were operating simultaneously. In the interest of safety, UNMOVIC requested the aircraft to withdraw." He said that "further U-2 and Mirage reconnaissance flights are still planned." The U-2 planes were flying missions at 10 a.m. Iraqi time for the U.N. weapons inspectors when Iraq launched fighter jets. According to two of the officials, the threat was directed against one of the two planes. The officials discussed the incident on condition of anonymity.
Blix left out data from U.N. testimony By Rowan Scarborough THE WASHINGTON TIMES http://washingtontimes.com/national/default-20033111737.htm The White House yesterday questioned why chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix omitted from his public testimony that Iraq is developing combat drones and cluster bombs capable of unleashing chemical and biological agents. Those details were contained in Mr. Blix's new written report to the U.N. Security Council that was released yesterday. The report also says Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein continues to deceive inspectors about the fate of chemical and biological weapons, including deadly anthrax. The head of an anti-Saddam group said Mr. Blix's only motive for leaving out the data in his public testimony Friday was to defeat a pending U.S. resolution to authorize an invasion of Iraq. "It is hard to believe that Blix's Friday statement was based on this devastating written report," said Randy Scheunemann, president of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, a Washington-based group of current and former U.S. government officials. "He managed not to mention a new missile type, and a drone, which are clear smoking guns, and he ignored pages of evidence with dozens of examples of Iraqi noncompliance in every facet of their [weapons of mass destruction] programs." He added: "Blix's only agenda can be enabling Saddam's defense lawyers in Paris to thwart the U.S. in the Security Council." At the White House, Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said, "There are outstanding questions, and all members of the Security Council, I think it's safe to say, look forward to hearing the answers." Asked whether the Bush administration believed that Mr. Blix had deliberately left important items out of his testimony, Mr. Fleischer said, "That's why there are questions, and I'm sure those questions will get answered." "The single most devastating discovery that the inspectors have come across was omitted from Blix's verbal discussion at the U.N.," said retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Buster Glosson, who designed the Operation Desert Storm air war during the 1991 Persian Gulf campaign and has written a book, "War with Iraq: Critical Lessons." "They hid it in the back pages of their report, that being the drones and bombs that have the capacity of dispensing biological and chemical weapons." On the drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, the written report said, "Recent inspections have also revealed the existence of a drone with a wingspan of 7.45 [meters] that has not been declared by Iraq."
max401:`On the drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, the written report said, "Recent inspections have also revealed the existence of a drone with a wingspan of 7.45 [meters] that has not been declared by Iraq."´ what´s the wingspan of American manned aerial vehicles like B 52 bombers ?