U.S. Has No Firm Evidence of Iraqi Weapons EffortsThe U.S. Defense Department said on Tuesday, January 23, that it lacks firm evidence that Iraq has speeded up its efforts to rebuild a chemical and biological weapons arsenal."We cannot say with certainty that we know exactly what's going on inside those facilities that we have seen, but it is a matter of concern to us," spokesman Craig Quigley said told reporters. He was referring to some infrastructure rebuilt by Iraq after the US and Britain carried out air attacks against the country in December of 1998. "It is the lack of knowledge," Quigley noted. On January 10, former Defense Secretary William Cohen released a report on the global spread of weapons of mass destruction. The report claimed that over the past two years Iraq may have reconstituted its efforts to build such weapons. |
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