So Where Are The Weapons Of Mass Destruction?

Michael Eisenstadt michaele@ando.pair.com
Tue, 15 Apr 2003 08:09:52 -0500


http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2003-04/14/article11.shtml

So Where Are The Weapons Of Mass Destruction? is the
title of an article in an unnamed British periodical
reproduced on the Islam-Online Web site referenced
above.

2 paragraphs from the article:

“As Susan Wright, a disarmament expert at the University of 
Michigan, said last week: "This could be the first war in 
history that was justified largely by an illusion." Even 
The Wall Street Journal, one of the administration's 
biggest cheerleaders, has warned of the "widespread 
skepticism" the White House can expect if it does not 
make significant, and undisputed, discoveries of forbidden 
weapons,” it continued.

Before the war, American intelligence officials said that 
they had a list of 14,000 sites where, they suspected, 
chemical or biological agents had been harbored, as well 
as the delivery systems to deploy them. A substantial 
number of those sites have been inspected by the invading 
troops. Evidence to date of a "grave and gathering" threat: 
precisely zero...."