So Where Are The Weapons Of Mass Destruction?
Michael Eisenstadt
michaele@ando.pair.com
Tue, 15 Apr 2003 08:09:52 -0500
http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2003-04/14/article11.shtml
So Where Are The Weapons Of Mass Destruction? is the
title of an article in an unnamed British periodical
reproduced on the Islam-Online Web site referenced
above.
2 paragraphs from the article:
“As Susan Wright, a disarmament expert at the University of
Michigan, said last week: "This could be the first war in
history that was justified largely by an illusion." Even
The Wall Street Journal, one of the administration's
biggest cheerleaders, has warned of the "widespread
skepticism" the White House can expect if it does not
make significant, and undisputed, discoveries of forbidden
weapons,” it continued.
Before the war, American intelligence officials said that
they had a list of 14,000 sites where, they suspected,
chemical or biological agents had been harbored, as well
as the delivery systems to deploy them. A substantial
number of those sites have been inspected by the invading
troops. Evidence to date of a "grave and gathering" threat:
precisely zero...."