Iraq Violated UN Weapons ban with French, Russian and South African Weapons?

[johnny861]

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/arti...2/154815.shtml


Photos Prove Iraq Violated U.N. Weapons Ban

Charles R. Smith
Thursday, Oct. 23, 2003


French Weapons Dated 2001


NewsMax has obtained exclusive photographs proving that Iraq violated a U.N. Security Council ban on importing weapons. The 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.

Cluster Bombs

Another 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.

Saddam denied that he had cluster bombs but 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.

Cluster bombs carry a large number of "bomblets" or "sub-munitions," small, softball-sized grenades that separate from the main bomb unit. The falling bomblets then shower a large area with explosions.

Cluster bomb technology can be adapted to chemical or biological warfare by replacing the conventional explosive submunitions with biotoxin-armed bomblets.

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.






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[bfp]

im not suprised. its still early in the game as well, but im sure we will find more in the future. for 12 years we taunted the UN mandate upon his administration, time and time again. after a while, the shit gets old, and in his mind he believed that the UN mandate was bogus. so why would he destroy them, if he believed we would never move in?

[Adam D]

Still an illegal war.

[bfp]

Originally posted by Adam D
Still an illegal war.

says who?

[Adam D]

A lot of people. Whether the UNSC chose to pass a resolution justifying the occupation or not, it was a clear violation of the UN Charter, WMDs or not.

[bfp]

Originally posted by Adam D
A lot of people. Whether the UNSC chose to pass a resolution justifying the occupation or not, it was a clear violation of the UN Charter, WMDs or not.

this war could be labeled as a resumption to hostilities. in the UN mandate, it states that iraq must comply or bombing will continue.

[Adam D]

yes, and it was up to the UN, not the US to enforce it.

[bfp]

Originally posted by Adam D
yes, and it was up to the UN, not the US to enforce it.

the UN? you mean the anti-jewish, anti-american league of nations? please. its obvious what countries want to see us fail, the sad part of it all, is they had the veto power. you're in a no-win situation.

it was proven that the UN does not work in situations such as these. why would we ask france, germany and russia, when they themselves have capitol invested in the country we want to attack?

[Adam D]

if it's an anti-american institution, why did Bush even bother to go to them?

[bfp]

Originally posted by Adam D
if it's an anti-american institution, why did Bush even bother to go to them?

first off, it was colin powell who demanded we go to the UN, for the fact that france lured us into the UN. france told us from the beginning that they would side with us once we brought forward the case against iraq. little did we know they were setting us up. a distasteful move if you ask me. its all about ego. france loves the control in these situations.