In an article today that suggests US intelligence faults (see: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071204/ap_o... (TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent )
Hunt states:
"The conviction that Saddam Hussein had such weapons was one of the factors behind Bush's decision to invade Iraq. It since has been determined that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction."
I'm not sure if Terrance Hunt with the AP is an "Intelligence Authority" to make such claims?
At first, Iraq told UNSCOM that it had produced an estimated 250 tons of tabun and 812 tons of sarin. In 1995, Iraq changed its estimates and reported it had produced only 210 tons of tabun and 790 tons of sarin.
Iraq claimed that its chemical weapons program yielded a total of 3,859 tons of useable agents. Iraq insisted that it only weaponized 3,315 tons and consumed 80% of those weaponized agents during the war with Iran.
Iraq filled thousands of munitions with sarin or its binary components
2007-12-03
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