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Iraq Weapons Inspections Fast Facts
Here’s a look at weapons inspections in Iraq from 1991 to 2007.
Facts
At the end of the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War, the United Nations passed Security Council Resolution 687 setting the terms for the ceasefire between Iraq and the US-led coalition. Section C of the resolution called for the elimination of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and some ballistic missiles and established the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM).
Timeline
April 6, 1991 – Iraq accepts SCR 687.
April 18, 1991 – Under the terms of SCR 687, Iraq gives a detailed account of its weapons inventory and denies it has a biological weapons program.
“We must reassess how we look at the world’s laboratories.”
He said there were 57 Level 4 laboratories capable of producing deadly pathogens such as Anthrax, which has a 95 per ent mortality rate if a victim is left untreated for 48 hours, and bubonic plague. These include the Government’s Defence s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down.
But, he warned, there are also 3,200 Level 3 laboratories, “many of which are scattered at various universities and which may contain the flu virus.”
De Bretton- Gordon, formally the colonel in charge of the UK’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Regiment added: “It’s very possible that an accident at a laboratory at Wuhan led to the initial transmission of Covid-19, and we’ve seen a proliferation of level 3 and 4 high containment laboratories.
way. i would have gone the push the elder way the president s father. i would have strangled them with a blockade. no fl-fly zoned it. look at the reports that were done by the iraq survey group for example. it was clear when we came into office in 2000 that sadam was a stretch between the time of the first administration and bush administration completely ignored 16 u.s. resolutions that the regime was crumbling. he was in a box we could have strangled him. after that they were going to share technology with the enemy. i don t expect you and your father to agree with me. what they spent in iraq has now come back to our country in a negative way.