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About Those Mobile Labs
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Now I am really confused. Are these the same labs, or more of the same labs?
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March
17, 2003
'Moment
of truth' for UN on Iraq
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Iraq also handed over videotapes of mobile biological weapons laboratories to inspectors. Iraq says the videos show the laboratories do not violate UN resolutions.
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March
16, 2003
Iraq
gives papers on mobile labs, military zones created
[LINK]
BAGHDAD, March 16: Iraq has given UN arms inspectors pictures and videotapes of mobile laboratories it says are for strictly for civilian purposes , hitting back at US and British charges that they are used to produce biological agents, a UN spokesman said Sunday.
"The Iraqis handed us photos and videos of mobile laboratories which they say are used for purposes not linked to weapons of mass destruction," Ueki said.
The United States and Britain accuse Iraq of developing banned biological agents in the laboratories on wheels, a charge Baghdad has firmly denied.
Iraq has acknowledged importing a mobile laboratory in 2002 from Britain that Baghdad said is used by the commerce ministry to test food safety. This laboratory was mentioned by Baghdad in its lengthy declaration to the United Nations on its weapons programmes December 7.
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And from a wingnut site [LINK]:
"John McWethy looked at how Bush officials on the Sunday shows were 'bashing' the French 'at every opportunity' and then Dean Reynolds related the reaction of Hans Blix before Jennings went to Dan Harris in Baghdad. Harris conveyed how Iraq's Foreign Minister 'said the government here has been preparing its people for war for more than a year and that tens of thousands of Iraqis have been trained as martyrs to fight the Americans. This tough talk was, as usual, combined with continued cooperation with the weapons inspectors. The Iraqis destroyed two more banned missiles today. They also handed the inspectors photos and videos of mobile laboratories, as well as documents on the destruction of ingredients for mustard gas.'"
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