UN weapons Inspectors find the Iraqi al-Samoud Two missile exceedes the legal range

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Iraq in violation....yet again!

Ballistic experts appear to have discovered an Iraqi missile programme which flouts United Nations restrictions, reports from the UN say.

A panel of experts summoned by UN weapons inspectors found that the al-Samoud Two missile exceeded the legal range of 150 kilometres (93 miles), UN diplomats said.

The al-Samoud Two missile has a reported range of up to 180km (112 miles).

Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix is expected to brief the Security Council on Friday about the missile.

But Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Fedorov told the French news agency AFP that the missile did exceed the permitted range

UN suspects Iraq over missile range

 

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But, they want a smoking bullet.....

The morons that will say this is a technical breach, will only be satisfied when a hundred thousand people are dead, then they can blame bush for it happening.
They are stalling the inevitable to strengthen the enemy, to kill more of our troops, to get more civilians killed, so they can again point at Bush and condemn him for not moving faster.
They want a socialized world, with the UN in control so their leaders don't have to accept responsibility for the mandates, but enjoy all the flourishes their positions entitle them to.
To do that, they have to reduce the US power down to their level, and then subvert it's identity, and exploit it's wealth to the waiting jaws of the world welfare nations.
Maybe we shouldn't stop at all this time..........PAX AMERICANA

 

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Today, for a second day in a row, our fighter jets bombed an Iraqi surface-to-surface ballistic missile launcher near Basra moving south into the protected no-fly zone whose missile had a range of reaching inside Kuwait to deliver who knows what in it's warhead.

 

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Iraq inspectors find banned missile system

THE chief United Nations weapons inspector will report tomorrow that Iraq has been developing a ballistic missile that is in clear violation of UN restrictions.

The discovery of a banned weapons system on the eve of Hans Blix’s crucial presentation is tantamount to the inspectors finding a “smoking gun” — even though it was declared by Iraq to the UN as a legal programme.

Dr Blix sounded the alarm about Iraq’s al-Samoud 2 and al-Fatah missiles in his report to the Security Council on January 27, when he said that they “might well represent prima facie cases of proscribed systems”.

He revealed that the liquid-fuel al-Samoud 2 had been test-fired to a distance of 183km and the solid-propellant al-Fatah to a range of 161km — both beyond the UN limit. He also noted that the al-Samoud’s 760mm diameter was increased from the earlier version, in spite of a directive from the former UN inspector Rolf Ekeus in 1994 that Iraq limit diameters to 600mm. Dr Blix suggested that the missiles also violated a second letter from Dr Ekeus in 1997, which banned the use of engines from certain surface-to-air missiles in ballistic missiles.

Since then Dr Blix has provided more damning details in answer to Council members’ questions. Inspectors discovered that the al-Samoud 2 has exceeded the 150km limit in 13 of 40 tests and the al-Fatah has gone beyond that distance in at least eight test-firings.

The experts also judged Iraq to be in violation of UN rules for repairing banned casting chambers for making illegal missiles and for building a new test stand that can test missile engines five times above the permitted thrust.

Thier findings speak for themselves!