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Iraq's alleged chemical and biological weaponry ========= According to Raymond Zalinskas, Associate Professor at the Biotechnology Institute at the U. of Maryland, and a former UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq, was intereviewed on the NPR Morning Edition on the 13th of February. He said, "UNSCOM has destroyed all the chemical facilities, the chemical weapons facilities, and also all known chemical weapons. ... In the biological area, UNSCOM has destroyed the dedicated biological weapons facility at al-Hakam, plus other ones at other institutes. And as far as we know, they have no biological weapons stored up." He continued, and stated that "95% of UNSCOM and the agency's work continues unhindered, and this is what they call the ongoing monitor and verification program." When he was asked if "air strikes properly carried out [would] reduce Saddam's capability to produce biological and chemical weapons," he responded --> "I don't think so. I mean the main, or the most important element is the expert work force, and the work force are all civilians and they're, of course, dispersed all over the place." Zalinskas had commented earlier that the Iraq's development of these weapons lies with the "persons, the scientists, engineers and technicians that developed these weapons." Is the US then geared towards killing Iraq's scientists? === http://leb.net/IAC/ -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To be removed/added, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk, NOT the whole list. Archived at http://linux.clare.cam.ac.uk/~saw27/casi/discuss.html