UN inspectors call US "tips" garbage

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/18/iraq/main537096.shtml

I guess it's just another case of the liberal media spinning the truth :rolleyes:

[a_unique_person]

thanks for the anti-american tip. doesn't surprise me. i expect sadaam to lie, i hope for better from the US.

what in the hell goes on in those intelligence research places. Colin powell turns up to convince the UN to invade, and can't even get the right name on the right village in a photo he presents.

i read a book about spying and intelligence once, and the author's opinion was that it was pretty well a waste of time. the informers are often paid, which means the more they can invent, the more they earn, the ethics of those involved are often compromised, double agents and double crossing are common. the spies are often walter mitty james bond types.

the US can find any number of dud leads to do with sadamm, but can't tell when the trade centre is about to be flattened or who was sending out anthrax for months, or that NK has restarted it's nuclear program.

[corplinx]

You should hear some of the things US intel has leaked about the Inspectors. Including accusations that they are ignoring much of the intel they are given.

The article mentions an area that satellites showed activity at but when they went there was empty. Empty? Well something was there and it went somewhere. I guess the inspectors guess it was always empty due to its current empty nature.

There are two sides to every coin.

Part of me is also skeptical that the US may be giving them bogus leads on purpose. Make no mistake, we want Saddam removed and not merely disarmed. If the inspectors actually find WMD and Saddam blows them up, then we are back to square one. As soon as they leave he starts again.

[pgwenthold]

Originally posted by corplinx
The article mentions an area that satellites showed activity at but when they went there was empty. Empty? Well something was there and it went somewhere. I guess the inspectors guess it was always empty due to its current empty nature.


What was the basis for the claim they were "research" buildings?

US Intel didn't know they were research buildings in the first place. Seriously, how could they?

I said this right after Powell's speech. He claimed that a photo showed an area where chemical weapons had been buried. Why wasn't that area dug up?