"Odyssey of Frustration"

A very long and informative article in The Washington Post, May 18, on the search for Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq:

.... To assemble the 19 top weapons sites, intelligence services had photographed and eavesdropped inside Iraq, interviewed defectors and sifted more than a million pages of documents. Analysts modeled the buildings, linking physical structures to research programs, resources and personnel over time.

Now the models could be tested. Team 3 and its counterparts drove into the sites and looked where they liked. What they found was far from what they expected. Most sites lay in ruins.

A comparison of Team 3's survey history with priority lists obtained from sources elsewhere shows that Allison and his team screened four of the Top 19 weapons sites -- one of which was Ash Shaykhili, the nuclear boneyard. "About every place we've been to," Allison said, "was trashed." ....

(Thanks, Mark.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Wed. 05/21/03 10:37:41 AM
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