http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/1/25/03638
A former U.N. weapons inspector charged Friday that in the late 1990s French members of the UNSCOM inspection team actually tried to help Iraq conceal evidence of its weapons of mass destruction program. "They gave them forewarning of the inspection targets," charged Bill Tierney, a former top U.N. weapons inspector, in an interview with radio host Sean Hannity. "Once a list of sites were designated to be inspected, the security of that list was paramount," Tierney explained. "And from the Iraqi point of view, their intelligence collection program was very easy. All they had to do was find out what that list was." Then Tierney charged point blank, "The French would give the list to the Iraqis." "Anytime the Iraqis would declare something a sensitive site, then only a four-man team would be allowed to go in." Tierney said he was normally the American on the designated group, which would also include a French representative. "I caught [the French representative] whispering to the Iraqis after the list had been briefed to us," Tierney added. He cited another top secret inspection of an Iraqi Scud missile site that had been compromised by French leaks. There is additional information that I can't go into," the former UNSCOM inspector said, before adding, "It's about time we called the French on it." Tierney also complained that former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter knew about French attempts to sabotage their work, but has never spoken out about it. xponent Frenchy Maru rob ________________________________ You are a fluke of the universe. You have no right to be here. And whether you can hear it or not, the universe is laughing behind your back. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
