UN & World Ignores Proof of WMDs

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UNMOVIC Quarterly Report to UN Security Council
May 28th, 2004

While scanning The Strata-Sphere this morning, I clicked on a link to The Anchoress blogsite to check out an article.

While there, another headline caught my eye... UN Confirms: WMDs Smuggled Out of Iraq by Rod Martin at The Vanguard Org dated June 18th, 2004.

Hummm... where was I? How can this be, and yet not blasted by the MSM worldwide?

So I set out to find the referred to UN document Vanguard mentions....

It does exist, and is linked above. And I am livid. Why oh why is this not widely reported? What kind of chutzpah does the UN Security Council have, ignoring proof of "proscribed" WMD (for the dictionary challenged, that means FORBIDDEN!) procured by Saddam illegally between 1999 and later, smuggled out of Iraq and showing up in various places, including Netherland scrapyards??

6. The Commission's experts are conducting an investigation in parallel with the IAEA Iraq Nuclear Verification Office regarding the discovery of items from Iraq that are relevant to the mandates of UNMOVIC and IAEA at a scrapyard in the Netherlands. In particular, following a visit of IAEA to a scrapyard in Rotterdam to investigate increased radiation readings, it was discovered, through photographs taken at the time, that engines of SA-2 surface-to-air missiles were among the scrap (see figure below). They are the type of engines used in the Al Samoud 2 proscribed missile programme. In addition, a number of items and equipment that may also be relevant to the UNMOVIC mandate were seen among the scrap. The existence of missile engines origination in Iraq among scrap in Europe may affect the accounting of proscribed engines known to have been in Iraq's possession in March 2003. Both IAEA and UNMOVIC have kept the Security COuncil informed of this matter.

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More engines could have been processed and passed through the yard unnoticed. Company staff confirmed that other items made of stainless steel and other corrosion-resistant metal alloys bearing the inscription "Iraq" or "Baghdad" have been observed in shipments delivered from the Middle East since November 2003.

The quarterly report goes on to say that they were evaluating the procurement of such equipment, including guidance systems, etc. Most appeared to have been done (and I quote from the report)

..outside the framework of mechanisms established under Security Council resolutions...

The rest of the sentence says many of these acquisitions were later declared by Iraq to UNMOVIC in it's semi-annual monitoring declarations.

Uh hummmm. I see. Saddam told UNMOVIC they had the goods, so that makes the illegal procurement of proscribed materials okay??

Let's summarize, shall we? UNMOVIC finds proscribed/forbidden materials that was in Iraq's possession - procured illegally - in the Netherlands and, according to Vanguard's article, in Turkey and Jordan. They state such to the UN Security Council back in May of 2004.

Would someone explain what the hell is the question about Saddam and WMD's??

Personally, I'd like some answers about this. And I'd like to know why the media deliberately chooses to ignore this.