Okay. Apot's article has a date of "May 27th, 2003" that this so-called determination was made. Right???? Well, lookie here: On June 8th, 2003, the CIA mentions these reports and says it STILL stands behind their previous position on the mobile labs.
Official: CIA holds position on Iraqi mobile labs
Reports have questioned bioweapons allegations
Sunday, June 8, 2003 Posted: 6:37 AM EDT (1037 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) --
The CIA stands by its assessment that complex mobile laboratories discovered in Iraq were designed and built to produce biological weapons, a senior CIA official told CNN on Saturday.
Critics of the U.S. intelligence assessment "don't have the benefit of all of the intelligence" that has been collected on the trucks, the official said.
"It is what we think it is, to the best of our knowledge," said the official, who spoke on the condition that he not be identified by name.
The New York Times reported Saturday that some bioweapons experts and analysts are not convinced that the labs were designed to make biological weapons and, the article suggested, that the U.S. "evaluation process had been damaged by a rush to judgment."
Disarming the Iraqi regime of alleged weapons of mass destruction was one of the main goals of the United States and its allies before the war. Since President Bush declared the war over, no such weapons have been found.
Former U.N. weapons inspector David Kay told CNN on Saturday that though there was a "lack of strong evidence" that the vehicles had been used to produce deadly biological agents, "the most likely use" and "the most probable use" was to create biological weapons. He said suggestions that the mobile labs had some more benign application, such as producing agricultural chemicals, were unlikely."
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/06/07/cia.mobile.labs/
We told you Apot: your "news" is OLD. AND it's incorrect.
Try again.
