Iraq Weapons Violations go
unreported by Liberals, DemocRats & their media bed partners. Did you see these photos
and news story in the New York Times on CNN or in any of the other alphabet Liberal Print
and News Outlets?
Iraq Violated U.N. Weapons Ban> More Photos
A series of photos shows that U.S. inspection teams discovered a cache of South African
CB470 cluster bombs. According to the declaration made in November 2002 by Saddam Hussein,
Iraq had no such weapons.
Cluster bomb technology can be adapted to chemical or biological warfare by replacing the
conventional explosive submunitions with biotoxin-armed bomblets or
"sub-munitions," small, softball-sized grenades that separate from the main bomb
unit. U.S. State Department photos prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom showed that Iraqi Air
Force engineers were working on modifying conventional cluster bombs into chemical
weapons. |
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French
Missiles in Iraq
U.S. Army and Australian special forces teams discovered advanced versions of a
French-made surface-to-air missile system in Iraq. U.S. Air Force officials are certain
that Iraqi French-made Roland missiles downed at least one A-10 "Warthog" attack
jet and may have killed two USAF pilots in an F-15E Strike Eagle.
Australian special forces teams working in Iraq’s western desert uncovered 51 Iraqi
MiG fighters hidden near an abandoned airfield. The Aussie soldiers also discovered a
cache of Roland 2 missiles and a launcher near the hidden MiG jets.
The Australian special forces members were critical to the success in the Iraqi western
desert against possible missile attack against Israel.
In addition, U.S. airborne troops from the 101st division recently stumbled onto a
French-made Roland 3 missile system, complete with radar, computer and fire control
electronics. The French army first deployed the Roland 3 advanced missile in 1995. The
Roland 3 unit supplied to Iraq would be a clear violation of the U.N. arms embargo placed
on Iraq after the first Gulf War.
French defense ministry officials recently denied that the Roland 3 was supplied to Iraq.
However, French defense industry insiders speculated that Iraq might have acquired the
Roland 3 unit illegally from "mafia" sources, suggesting that Paris has a
problem with black market theft inside advanced military projects.
Iraq violated a U.N. Security Council ban on importing weapons. Photographs show a wide
variety of imported weapons with production dates as recent as 2001
A U.S. military inspection team that visited an Iraqi air force munitions site in late
September 2003 took the photographs. The site, located in the Suni triangle near Baghdad,
has at least 13 concrete bunkers filled with missiles, bombs and bomb-fusing devices.
U.S. military teams uncovered several examples of U.N. violations, including a number of
French bomb fuses with a production date of "2001-Sep-5."
The French-made aerial bomb fuses had documentation noting that the devices were produced
in 2001. The French bomb fuses were stored in a box stating the manufacture date was 1985
in an apparent effort to mislead U.N. and U.S. inspectors.
Russian Bombs
Another example was a large quantity of KMG-U cluster bomb dispensers developed in Russia
by the Spetztekhnika Vympel NPO in Moscow and manufactured by Bazalt State Research and
Production Enterprise.
The Iraqi KMG-U dispensers were armed with the PTAB2.5 anti-tank bomblets and AO2.5
bomblets. According to the Russian manufacturer, the KMG-U dispenser and submunitions were
not available for export until 1993. However, there are no reported export sales.
The U.S. teams also found fully active Russian-made AA-8 air-to-air missiles, French-made
Durandal anti-runway rocket bombs, Russian anti-personnel cluster bomblets and huge
quantities of unguided rockets. Many of the munitions were piled into large heaps or
simply scattered over the open countryside.
The condition of the find illustrates the huge task faced by U.S. forces as they try to
disarm Iraq. Saddam loyalists could easily obtain and use the munitions found lying in the
open desert against American forces.
Moreover, the discrepancies between documentation, box markings and actual items found
show that an intentional effort was made by Iraqi troops to mislead U.N. inspection teams.
In some cases false shipping documents written in English were discovered with the
weapons.
In addition, the effort to find chemical or biological weapons is being hampered by the
vast quantity of conventional munitions stored in dangerous conditions. The Iraqi army was
well-known for storing chemical weapons with its conventional explosives |
