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Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)


12 December Iraq Special Weapons News

  • Tracking the Inspections 12 December 2002 RFE/L 12 Dec 2002 -- UNMOVIC released details of inspections carried out on 11 December by it and the IAEA.
  • QATAR / U-S VOA 12 Dec 2002 -- The United States and Qatar on Wednesday signed an agreement that allows the U-S military to upgrade its facilities at a base that could be used in the event of an attack on Iraq. The agreement is an example of the developing ties between Qatar and the United States
  • IRAQ / VX GAS VOA 12 Dec 2002 -- A senior Iraqi general has strongly denied a published report saying Iraq may have supplied nerve gas to Islamic extremists linked to al-Qaida. Lieutenant General Hossam Mohammed Amin described the report as "ridiculous," saying the Bush administration knows Iraq has no prohibited substances. The report first appeared in Thursday's Washington Post newspaper
  • RUMSFELD/QATAR VOA 12 Dec 2002 -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld toured a key military facility in the Gulf state of Qatar Thursday, to witness first-hand a computerized war game that could be a coalition dress rehearsal for a new conflict with Iraq.
  • STIMSON-IRAQ VOA 12 Dec 2002 -- The Washington Post Newspaper says U-S officials have received a report that Islamic extremists linked to al-Qaida recently acquired a chemical weapon in Iraq. Amy Smithson is the Director of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project at the Henry-L-Stimson Center in Washington
  • IRAQ/ECONOMIC FALLOUT VOA 12 Dec 2002 -- While U-S officials debate the pros and cons of going to war against Iraq, economists are already looking beyond war to assess its impact. Analysts say that while it is difficult to predict the consequences of any attack on Iraq, uncertainty already is rattling world markets
  • For Sake of Iraq Peace, Prepare Military Option, Feith Says Washington File 12 Dec 2002-- At a media roundtable in Rome following a conference of Southeast European Defense Ministers, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith said the United States will review "very meticulously" Iraq's declaration concerning its weapons of mass destruction and that the review "will probably take weeks."
  • Rumsfeld says U.S.-Qatar agreement "is not connected to Iraq" Washington File 12 Dec 2002-- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters in Doha December 12 that the U.S.-Qatar bilateral defense agreement that has been signed "is not connected to Iraq."
  • U.S. Experts Decry Iraqi Declaration as Nothing New Washington File 12 Dec 2002-- Panel discussion at Brookings Institution December 12
  • Rumsfeld Holds Town Hall for U.S. Troops in Qatar AFPS 12 Dec 2002-- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld today answered questions from service members on everything from Iraqi compliance with U.N. resolutions to smallpox vaccinations to TRICARE during a town hall meeting here at the headquarters for Exercise Internal Look.
  • Transformation on Display in Qatar AFPS 12 Dec 2002-- It was U.S. military transformation in the flesh at the As Saliyah pre- positioning camp here Dec. 12.
  • UNMOVIC IAEA Press Statement on Inspection Activities in Iraq UNMOVIC/IAEA 12 December 2002




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