THEY CAN BE USED FOR LEGITIMATE PURPOSES, is certainly what the left will say about the chemicals and otherwise banned agents and missile components discovered "missing" by UN satellites, via Drudge.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - U.N. satellite imagery experts have determined that material that could be used to make biological or chemical weapons and banned long-range missiles has been removed from 109 sites in Iraq, U.N. weapons inspectors said in a report obtained Thursday.
U.N. inspectors have been blocked from returning to Iraq since the U.S.-led war in 2003 so they have been using satellite photos to see what happened to the sites that were subject to U.N. monitoring because their equipment had both civilian and military uses.
In the report to the U.N. Security Council, acting chief weapons inspector Demetrius Perricos said he's reached no conclusions about who removed the items or where they went. He said it could have been moved elsewhere in Iraq, sold as scrap, melted down or purchased.
The list of items that can be used to produce chemical and biological weapons, and various missile apparatus is extensive. Of course, it is the UN, so all bets are off as far as credibility. But, it is further mounting evidence that Saddam "Fruit of the Loom" Hussein had the capability to produce these weapons.
And, as we already know, a habit of using them.
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