| Rochard |
07-26-2004 08:17 AM |
The 9/11 Commision Report: Al Qaeda, Iraq, and WMD
Is anyone else reading this?
Chapter Three is "Responses to Al Qaeda's initial assults". On page 128 they reveal the contents of a sealed indictment of Bin Ladin:
"The indictment also charged that Al Qaeda would work cooperatively with the government of Iraq. This passage led Clarke, who for years read intelligence reports on Iraqi - Sudanese cooperation on chemical weapons to speculate to Berger that a large iraqi presence at a chemical facilities in Khartoum was probably a direct result of the Iraq - A Al Qaeda agreement. Clarke added the VX precursor traces found near Al Shifa were the exact formula used by Iraq".
Earlier in the chapter the report mentions soil samples taken from a tannery owned by Bin Ladin in Suddan that also had traces of VX gas - again, the same formula used by Iraq. This matches samples taken from a missle found in Iraq in 1991 by Richard Butler's team.
I'm under the impression that VX gas is similar to a fingerprint, and can be traced back to it's source. Can someone explain to me why the same VX gas samples are found in Iraq and at Bin Ladin / Al Qaeda owned facilities?
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