New Reports on U.S. Planting WMDs in Iraq - Tehran Times

FYI, in the event the subject of tonight's news conference turns out to be "Lookee what we found!"

BASRA, April 12 (MNA) -– Fifty days after the first reports that the U.S. forces were unloading weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in southern Iraq, new reports about the movement of these weapons have been disclosed.

Sources in Iraq speculate that occupation forces are using the recent unrest in Iraq to divert attention from their surreptitious shipments of WMD into the country.

An Iraqi source close to the Basra Governor’s Office told the MNA that new information shows that a large part of the WMD, which was secretly brought to southern and western Iraq over the past month, are in containers falsely labeled as containers of the Maeresk shipping company and some consignments bearing the labels of organizations such as the Red Cross or the USAID in order to disguise them as relief shipments.

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added that Iraqi officials including forces loyal to the Iraqi Governing Council stationed in southern Iraq have been forbidden from inspecting or supervising the transportation of these consignments. He went on to say that the occupation forces have ordered Iraqi officials to forward any questions on the issue to the coalition forces. Even the officials of the international relief organizations have informed the Iraqi officials that they would only accept responsibility for relief shipments which have been registered and managed by their organizations.

http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=4/13/2004&Cat=4&Num=013

(or they would have already - given bush's continued downward spiral in support since January). Too big of a risk of it quickly being discovered (there would be trace evidence of the plant.) The gain is far outweighed by the likely risk/loss.

of course it may be too late for anything by that time... Let's hope the Bush regime goes down in flames long before October.

but I wouldn't be surprised at ANYTHING the bush league would do to win in November - plant weapons, start a new war, "find" OBL....I don't put anything beyond their consideration