NYT: Failure to Secure Weapons Equipment
The New York Times is criticizing allied forces for reportedly failing to secure weapons facilities in Iraq containing nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons equipment.
In the weeks after Baghdad fell in April 2003, looters systematically dismantled and removed tons of machinery from Saddam Hussein’s most important weapons installations, including some with high-precision equipment capable of making parts for nuclear arms, a senior Iraqi official said this week in the government’s first extensive comments on the looting.
The Iraqi official, Sami al-Araji, the deputy minister of industry, said it appeared that a highly organized operation had pinpointed specific plants in search of valuable equipment, some of which could be used for both military and civilian applications, and carted the machinery away.
So basically, according to the New York Times, there were no WMD programs… but if there were, allied forces failed to secure them. The sad thing is that the people at the New York Times probably regard this as “the glass is half full” thinking.
