David Kay's report to Congress
yesterday can be found at:
His actual statement is
much stronger than what the press is reporting. Particularly
disturbing in what Kay had to say about Iraq's weapons
programs:
1)
"Deliberate dispersal and destruction of material and documentation related to
weapons programs began pre-conflict and ran trans-to-post
conflict."
2)
" Some
WMD personnel crossed borders in the pre/trans conflict period and may have
taken evidence and even weapons-related materials with
them."
3)
"Additional information is beginning to corroborate reporting since 1996 about
human testing activities using chemical and biological substances, but progress
in this area is slow given the concern of knowledgeable Iraqi personnel about
their being prosecuted for crimes against humanity."
4) "ISG teams are uncovering significant information - including research and development of BW-applicable organisms, the involvement of Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) in possible BW activities, and deliberate concealment activities."
4) "ISG teams are uncovering significant information - including research and development of BW-applicable organisms, the involvement of Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) in possible BW activities, and deliberate concealment activities."
The
involvement of Iraqi intelligence in the BW program specifically is
suggestive of the point that Iraq's biological
weapons program was intended for terrorist, rather than
military, purposes.
Kay
also stated that the Iraq Survey Group had
discovered:
5)
"Reference strains of biological organisms concealed in a scientist's home, one
of which can be used to produce biological
weapons."
6)
"New research on BW-applicable agents, Brucella and Congo
