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Anti-war Crowd Demands Proof of WMDs

Date:	Monday April 28, @04:03PM
Author:	nmb
Topic:	News
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http://www.insightmag.com/news/426671.html

Anti-war Crowd Demands Proof of WMDs

Posted April 28, 2003

By Jamie Dettmer in London
Blair is catching heat from war opponents.

"...Despite the insistence of the Pentagon that a menacing arsenal of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) eventually will be found in Iraq, the failure after more than a month of war and occupation to unearth even a single illegal warhead or a drum of prohibited chemicals is causing alarm in political circles here. Already British Prime Minister Tony Blair is coming under mounting pressure in the House of Commons to agree to setting up a formal British parliamentary inquiry into Saddam Hussein's WMD programs and the claims made about them before the war by the intelligence services.

Prior to the war both U.S. and British intelligence were behind a series of claims involving, as it emerged, some faked documents. The British insisted that Iraq, for example, had obtained "significant quantities of uranium from Africa" and identified the source as Niger. George W. Bush highlighted the allegation in a speech, but the International Atomic Energy Agency later determined the documents on which the claim was based had been forged - a conclusion that left Downing Street red-faced and on the defensive in the House of Commons.

Some British government members remain uneasy; so too do Conservative leaders who were supportive of the prime minister in the run-up to the war and during the fighting. They have warned Downing Street that there could be major political consequences if nothing large is found and that Blair then will be faced with claims that he - and the Bush administration - exaggerated the danger and set out to deceive the world.

A hue-and-cry about the absence so far of WMDs already is under way in the press here with The Independent on Sunday, among other influential publications, demanding, "So where are they, Mr. Blair?"

Related Sources (The History of lies):

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u;=/ap/20030325/ap_on_re_mi_ea/war_chemical_plant_3

U.S. Finds Nothing at Iraq Chemical Plant (March 25)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49385-2003Mar29.html

Special Search Operations Yield No Banned Weapons (March 29)

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-war-marines-chemicals,0,5413536.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dnationworld%2Dheadlines

Euphrates Chemical Tests Said Negative (April 4)

http://english.aljazeera.net/topics/article.asp?cu_no=1&item;_no=1858&version;=1&template;_id=263&parent;_id=258

Britain admits there may be no WMD's in Iraq (April 5)

http://search.ft.com/search/article.html?id=030412001079&query;=US+engineers+draw&vsc;_appId=totalSearch&state;=Form

Financial Times on Fake evidence (April 12th)

http://www.nydailynews.com/04-13-2003/news/wn_report/story/75068p-69418c.html