Mobile proof.Now that we know the basis of Tony Blair's 30-to-45 minutes, what about those mobile labs we kept being told were being used to make WMDs? Even after he declared victory, Bush called these trailers "proof" that Iraq had a biological weapons program. But Douglas Jehl, a former Monthly intern intern /in·tern/ (in´tern) a medical graduate serving in a hospital preparatory to being licensed to practice medicine. in·tern or in·terne n. now at The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, has discovered a memorandum dated June 2 of this year, from the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research Noun 1. Bureau of Intelligence and Research - an agency that is the primary source in the State Department for interpretive analyses of global developments and focal point for policy issues and activities of the Intelligence Community INR , that says, in Jehl's words, "that the evidence found to date did not justify the conclusion that the trailers could have been used for no other purpose than ... as mobile weapons laboratories Mobile weapons laboratories are bioreactors and other processing equipment to manufacture and process biological weapons that can be moved from location to locating either by train or vehicle. ." The C.I.A. and D.I.A. provided the intelligence on which the administration's claim was based. They did not, Jehl reports, consult State. |
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