Von Sponeck visited the Al-Dora and Faluja factories near Baghdad in 1999 after they were “comprehensively trashed” on the orders of U.N. inspectors, on the grounds that they were suspected of being chemical weapons plants. He returned to the site late in July this year, with a German TV crew, and said both plants were still wrecked.
“We filmed the evidence of the dishonesty of the claims that they were producing chemical and biological weapons,” von Sponeck has told the Sunday Herald. “They are indeed in the same destroyed state which we witnessed in 1999. There was no trace of any resumed activity at all.”
Neil Mackay and Felicity Arbuthnot
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“We filmed the evidence of the dishonesty of the claims that they were producing chemical and biological weapons,” von Sponeck has told the Sunday Herald. “They are indeed in the same destroyed state which we witnessed in 1999. There was no trace of any resumed activity at all.”
Neil Mackay and Felicity Arbuthnot
Article reprinted courtesy of Scotland's Sunday Herald: http://www.sundayherald.com
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