An Iraqi colonel who commanded a front-line unit during the build-up to the war in Iraq has revealed how he passed top secret information to British intelligence warning that Saddam Hussein had deployed weapons of mass destruction that could be used on the battlefield against coalition troops in less than 45 minutes. Lt-Col al-Dabbagh, 40, who was the head of an Iraqi air defence unit in the western desert, said that cases containing WMD warheads were delivered to front-line units, including his own, towards the end of last year.This colonel not only says they had WMDs ready to be deployed in case of war, but that too within 30 minutes...It should be interesting to say the least, to find out what else will come out as these people will start talking about their capabilities to the coalition forces and to the world in general. Pre-emptive update: Here is a link to a site that claims that there can be RPG-propelled chemical weapons and have been known to be possessed by Iraq. Another update: An interesting article about how the Telegraph tracked down the Colonel. (All links via LGF) Posted by shanti at December 9, 2003 11:29 AM
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No doubt the anti-war crowd will call it nothing more a “pack of lies”; propaganda by occupation forces to steal Iraq’s oil. For all we know, this character is not even an Iraqi, but some actor. :mad:
Posted by: Niraj at December 9, 2003 1:10 PM
We can take bets on how soon that will happen, Niraj ;)
Another thing I think this report does is damage BBC’s credibility, since their entire “sexed up” dossier argument depended on this 45-minute claim being bogus and made up by the Blair admin.
Posted by: Shanti at December 9, 2003 1:19 PM