U.S. Unloading WMD in Iraq
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TEHRAN (Mehr News Agency) � Over the past few days, in
the wake of the bombings in Karbala and the
ideological disputes that delayed the signing of
Iraq�s interim constitution, there have been reports
that U.S. forces
have unloaded a large cargo of parts for constructing
long-range missiles and weapons of mass destruction
(WMD) in the southern ports of Iraq.
A reliable source from the Iraqi Governing Council,
speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Mehr News
Agency that U.S. forces, with the help of
British forces stationed in southern Iraq, had made
extensive efforts to conceal their actions.
He added that the cargo was unloaded during the night
as attention was still focused on the aftermath of the
deadly bombings in Karbala and the signing
of Iraq�s interim constitution.
The source said that in order to avoid suspicion,
ordinary cargo ships were used to download the cargo,
which consisted of weapons produced in the
1980s and 1990s.
He mentioned the fact that the United States had
facilitated Iraq�s WMD program during the 1980-1988
Iran-Iraq and said that some of the weapons
being downloaded are similar to those weapons,
although international inspectors had announced Saddam
Hussein�s Baath regime had destroyed all its WMD.
The source went on to say that the rest of the weapons
were probably transferred in vans to an unknown
location somewhere in the vicinity of Basra overnight.
�Most of these weapons are of Eastern European origin
and some parts are from the former Soviet Union and
the Eastern Bloc. The U.S. obtained them through
confiscations during sales of banned arms over the
past two decades,� he said.
This action comes as certain U.S. and Western
officials have been pointing out the fact that no
weapons of mass destruction have been discovered in
Iraq and the issue of Saddam�s trial begins to take
center stage.
In addition, former chief UN weapons inspector Hans
Blix has emphasized that the U.S. and British
intelligence agencies issued false reports on Iraq
leading to the U.S. attack.
Meanwhile, the suspicious death of weapons inspector
David Kelly is also an unresolved issue in Britain.
------Occupation Forces Official Claims to Have No
Information About
Transfer of WMD to Iraq -------
A security official for the coalition forces in Iraq
said that he has not received any information about
the unloading of weapons of mass destruction
in ports in southern Iraq.
Shane Wolf told the Mehr News Agency that the
occupation forces have received no reports on such
events, but said he hoped that the coalition
forces would find the Iraqi weapons of mass
destruction one day.
Coalition forces and inspectors have so far been
unable to find any Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
The U.S. invaded Iraq under the pretext that Iraq
possessed a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction
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