Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

Minister of Trade Dr. Muhammed Mehdi Salih has mocked at allegations of Washington Post newspaper to say that Trade Ministry storehouses to store milk and sugar in Taji district in Baghdad have been used as storage for chemical and biological materials.

Touring Trade Ministry storehouses accompanied by correspondents of Iraqi News Agency, foreign and Arab TV nets, Iraq TV and Iraqi Satellite Channel. Dr. Salih said that about 174 lorries, not 64 lorries, as what is being alleged by US newspaper, contribute in transferring sugar and milk items which have been distributed with other food stuffs to the people within the framework of current August and next September food ration.

Dr. Salih made it clear that the said storehouses were allocated to store meat, chicken in pre-sanctions period and due to their import stoppage, used as a storehouses for milk and sugar.

During the visit organized by Information Ministry, media correspondents toured the storehouses and assuredly verified the falsifications and lies of US media machine to mislead US public opinion to accept what is being netted by US evil administration of fictitious stories and allegations with the aim to justify the new offensive against Iraq.

Trade Minister was accompanied by Director General of organizations and conferences at Foreign Ministry Mr. Sa'eed al- Mousawi and Director General of the National Monitoring Department Major General Husam Muhammad Ameen.