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He looks like a damn gooc sou, ce to me . . . was certainly senior and if he's never been debriefed by ml-6 or miltary
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~is article describes him as :he LEADER of a UN weapons Inspectors team,
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He was ;n iraq in 1998

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And nis job description : Dr. David Kelly, Senior Adviser, Proliferation and Anrns Control Secretanat, Ministry
of Defence, London, UK
The tear.i included Dr David Kelly, a fonner Oxford University rmerobtolo--ist
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Title : "UN Team Coiflrms Iraq's Biological .Arms Capaoility ." Iraq had the caoabi'ity to make vast
quantities of the most virulent biological vdarfa-e agents at ':he one site visited by UN exoerts, says
the Inspecuon team's leader David Kelly . (910814)

Translated Title : L'Irak pout fabncuer des armes biologwues . ; Eqwpo ONU confirma potencal
arrnas biclogicas de Irak (910814)
Author : A1-A, 31UDY (USIA STAFF va'R7ER)
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08/14/91 HU .N . TEAM CONFIRMS IRAQ'S SiOLOGICAL ARMS CAPABILITY Sh(Says Iraq was able co
make "vast quantities") (560) BYBy Judy Aita BIUSIA Urited 'Vatiors Correspondent

TUnited P:atiors -- Iraq had -.he capabilty to make "vast quantities" of the most virulent biological
wa-fare agents at the one site dtsited by U .N . experts, says the inspection :eam's leader David
Kelly.

At a press conference at U .N . headquarters, Kelly saic August 14 that while the team found no
direct evidence of biological weapons, they found facaiities which could have been t:s°_d to research,
Drecuce and store biological warfare agents .

The team of 26 exoerts in microbiology and biotechnology, safety, medicine and comrmunication
were in Iraq August 3-7 . They v!sited the Salman Pak size, 35 knometers southeast of Baghdad and
also held discussions with senior oricals in the ministries of health and agnculture "to define a
baseline for mucn of tne biological research," Kelly said

Iraq bad originally told the United Nations that i: did rot possess biological weapons and chat it had
not carried out any related activities . However, Kelly said that when the team arrived, Iraq "made a
verbal statement that it uneertook biological research for military purposes at i's Saiman site" from
1985 to 1990 . The verbal scatement was later clarified in a written declaration .

"Only when we started our investigation did they adm¢ that they had undertaken biological research
for military purposes . Until the : time it had been in secret," Kelly said .

"Iraq admitted having worked on two biological warfare agents -- anthrax and botulirum tox;n," he
said .

"At tne site itself we discovered the capability to research, 'as, and store biological warfare
agents," the chief inspector said . "T'-ie site had fermentation, production, :esting, and sto'age
facilmes ." Tne Iraqis said tnerb were te-i peopl=- on their researcn a-id development team .

KeJy said the U .N . `.eam was unable to determine the total scope of Iraq's Diological weaeons
capability at that s;te, Bit ne said the presence of a 150-liter ferment°_r was ev,dence ,net Iraq was
,capable of producing vast quant,ties of biological warfare agents and cercainiy provided the
capability of having b!ological vaeapons ."

On "he .h,rd day of the i,^spect,or  the Iraqis admitted thac the research was for offensive purposes
and that no resear_n was done for defensive capaburties or to develop vacci~svher
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Ke'v said the site had been extensively damaged by coal ;non bombing "and, in fact, the Iraqis had
cleared cer_ain key buildings f-om that site whi& hindered our insaeccion of that site ."

Before the tearn left on August 7, Irac handed over a coliecton of 30 samples of biological material
whicn could be ceveloped as warfare agents . The material included anthrax and botulinurn as well
as brucellosis and tularemia, which Kelly termed"two strong biological weapons agents ."

The team nad no oppo-tunity to look at other sites, he said . "There are sites that I would have liked
to have visited and I'm sure =hat or, succeeding insaections tney will be visited," he noted .

Asked aoout the degree of sopha`acaton of Iraq's biological weapons prog-am, Kelly said that when
the fermenter was purchased in _985, it was a sophisticated model .

"Biolog.cal weapons are intrinsically quite sirnpl= weapons," he explained . "You do not need
sophisticated weapons to deliver them . . . .The Iraqis chose tne two strongest candidates . . .an:hrax
an : botuhnum ." NNNN

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THE LENHTS ON UNSCOM ACTIVITY

Iraq News, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1938

By La'srie :vlylroie

Ti2e cerztralfocus oflrag News is the tension between the considerable, proscribed T3:~1D
capabilities that Iraq is holding on to and its increasing stridency that it has complied with ZJNSCR
687 and it is time to lift sanctions. Ifyou wish to receive Iraq News by emazl, a service -which
includes full-text of news reports not archzved here, send your request to Laurze lr2ylroae _

I. EC^vIT, IRAQ'S W==.?oNS "VIItY WORRISOjjE," - :TITERS NOV 4

IT_ . THE E:'-1NGEFS Os IRA_4'S BW PROGtA=:, REUTEES, NOV 9
III . THE LIMITS ON CNSCO :": ACTIVITY, AP, NOV 4
IV . SAUDI MINISTER, BIN :ADI :v NOT INVOLVED IN S?.UDI B .^i?°iHINSS, I:?, '.ACV 9
V. JIM HOAGLAND, OVE?TH30W SADDAM, NOV S
VI . A'SJ cDITORe, BOMB IRA-1, NOV 4

This is the 92nd day wrLhon= weapons inspec_ions in Iraq and the
f_ftn day without CtbSCOM T,onitor= ::g .

Fe .^. Timner :-~an, publisher of "Iran 3rief," in the WSJ, Nov 3, writing
of the canger nosed by Iraq's s.)spensicn of UNSCOM monitoring, advised
chat the US shoula mount seriocs offensive strikes aga-r.st Iraq and then
"the ac .-nnis'raticn should order the Pertago .n. to spend $97 million
aut .^.or-zed by Congress to _rain and equip an Iraq= L-Leraticn A_-Try unde r
the _leadership of _n=_ broad-basec I-aa_r 'National Congress ."

AbDas al-Janabi, ;7day's former aide, who gave a lengthy Interview to

al Hayat [see Iraq News," Oct 2aJ, was a-so interviewed by Tae
Goardran . Nov 3 . Toe -nterview ca : : be fo .:nd at nctn_(~www__ :nq o_g. ._uk

Foil-owing Mon's decision to send Sec Ted Cohen co Europe and the G .21£,
r.e left that nigh- with Under .,-e State, Thomas P ;cker=ng, anc . .entco :-n
Co!rr~ander, Gen . Anthony Zinni, sto~p- ::g for an hour's meeting with U3 ,
De=eose Sec George Robertson during a refueling stop at Eeatnrow, after
wnich the Americans continued on to Saudi Arabia . A? reported that t :e
Saudis were coo'_, but US authorities m-'inta .ineo they had -he necessary
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support °escerday, tn=y wen= on to Kuwait, Ba ::ra_n and Qatar .
Tomorrow, they are to go to Egypt and Turkey, according to tne Wash.
Post, to Oman and the UAE, according to Reuters .
On Tu=_s, Russian Foreign Minister, Igov Ivanov, sa1f "there could be
::o military sclition to the Iraq crisis and impiictly warned the United
States against a 'one-off' strike to force Iraqi cctnplianc=_ with LN
demands," according to Reuters .
Yesterday, Reuters repbrted tnat Turkey's Dep Prime Minister, 3ule-it
Ecev_` long sympatnetic to 3aghdac, .-met KD? leacer N.asseud Barzani, and
said, "We agreed that the Bagndad governrent's resistance on the macter
cf weapons of mass destruction was very worrisome," even as E,cevit a'_so
called for lifting sanczicn5 .
Ecypt's Foreign Minister, Amr N.ussa, according to today's Wash Post,
said, "The Arab world is not going to repeat 1991 . . . Ail the people
of the region have sympathy 'or the people of Iraq . ~ . !ran does rot
pose any tnreat the way it did . Iraq is an ir.portant part of the Ara ~Y]`Sa
(Z f]:t'- it- 1 )9'~
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world ; it will not be on the sidelines for long .

Yesterday, David Kelly, a senior UK defense ministry expert, addressed

.. French defense conference and spoke with Reuters . 3elsy explained t_-ie
dangers in Iraq's bi, program . As Reuters reocrted, "The worst-case
.,-enario was that of an Iraq_ fighter-bomber spraying the contents o£ a
-'light
2,200-litre drcp tark during a high-speec, low-altitude over a
city . '-t could spray anthrax, a ?ivirg bacteria wh-ch is inhaled and
blccks body functions . it kills w:.thin two or three days . Tel Av ;.v na s
a rrallion inl:ab= .ants--most could re k :=1ed by a single aircraft flying
ever the city in specific weather conait_ons .' . . Kelly also said ne
had found evidence of Iraqi =dirty tricks' programmes _ha= included
research into 'Camel Pox,' a b_olocical weapon that would incapacitate
or k-11 Nortn Americans or Europeans but spare Arabs .
Also, yes-eraav, UNSCOM spokesman, 3wen B .ichanan, explained to HP the
degraded state o£ UNSCOM activity, '-3y Letting cur ~-chniciaas go ot .t,
tney (the Iraqis) give tre appearance zha_ some sort of monitoring is
s==1- going or . . . . [BLit] it's nai .-.tenance s4cr,c,' he added explaining
CKSCO[t has S~.:st a ?handful of air-samp-inc sensors to check for cne-ircals
ant cameras _at no more than 20 to 30 s1-es, a 'small fraction' of
several hundred suspected weapons sites in Iraq ." And as Buchanan
explained to "Laq News," a cairera aill not te_1 you whether a -°ermenter
is maxina pharmaceutical prndocts or anthrax .

=here were several significant developments regarding t2crcrism

yesterday . The Sta~e Dept issued a ~~arnirc to US citizens zravelLng
aoread, because c= the prospect of a US ril_tary strike on Iraq .
The Saudi Interior M_-cster, Prince Nay_-, saia that 3sama bin Lad-,n
was not w=-ni ::d t7e Nov 45 bombing of a OS training mission in Piyadh or
the Jin 96 oom:;- ::g of the oars that housed tne US pilots who enforced
the no--`ly zone in ScL_hern -raq, as AP retio_ted .
=.nd the Justice Dep't issues a 238-count inc=ctmer.t against Csama Bin
Leair. for tne Kenya/Tanzania aomr .ings and other acts of terrorism .
Readers of "Iraq News" w .r-1 remember -finding on tae=r compijters, on the
morning cf Auc 6, tne angry statements issued by Iraa the day Defore, as
it sus?encea UNSCO)7 inspections, and then waking up the day _°ter to
learn that the JS -^'~Dassies - . . Kenya and Tanzania had '--een bombec
-i :mu__ar.eous_y .
=r News," Aug 24, said it woulc explain :;ow the C1_aton
ad:nni~ . .ratian Separated the question ef state sponsorship- from the
crin_nal question e= the guilt or innocence of those involved in
ter :o :ist bo-noings . Yesterday, Michael Kelly linked Clintcn's
-_ . ..amental dishoneszy--it depenas on what tne :near.-n3 of "is" is--to
,. :.e p-esent cr-sis over UNSCOM monitoring . It is aiso relevant co
_erroris :;i .
The following is a brief s=ary, with more to come later . Clin=on
administration oclrcy o .^. terrorism was sec by its response to the NYC
bomoirg oanspiracies that occurred :.n the first half of '993--the Feb 26
bomb_rg of the World -,-ads Center and a plot later tnat spring to bc^.n
the tir, NY's Federal B*=ilding, ana two tur.n>__s . T^e aaministra=-on
d=-a_t w .itn the criminal question of the guilt or innocence of the
perpetrators publicly, through trials, rl:_le =t dealt with the question
of state sponsorsnip surreptitiously, acting, without explaining itself
clearly .
Following the Trade Center bombing, an attempt to topple NY's tallest
tower on to its twin, NY FBI believed .hat Iraq nad been behind the
bomn, but was unable to prove -_ . [See L . Mylrcae, A'no is 3amzi Yousef ;
What it Matters, The Nat_-ona1 In`e_est, Winter 95/96,
http_~.//www,__°as .org/i=g/world/iraa/956-tr.i htm )
And after the Trade Carter bomb_ng, tne F3I also launcned an
undercover operation aimed at the NYC area fundamentalists . A Sueanese
_mmig_ant, S_ddiq Ali, picked up the nail . His original target was a
Manha_tan armory But he had two "=r_enas"--rntell_ge^c=- agents--at
Sudan's -,:N Mission . Tney recame involved in changing the targets of the
T, .) "->n 1 1. . 1
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conspiracy . They offered to provide Siddiq A_i diplomatic plates to ga t

a bomo-laden van into the '::V parking garage and also suggested the
bombing of New York's federal building .
Or. Jun 29, when the FBI haa all _h=_ evidence it neeaed _n the seccnd
pombing conspiracy, incluca.ng the conspirators on video mixing what t.ze y
thought was explosive material [it was not), it arrested then . Two day's
later, Clinton nit Iraqi intelligence readcuarters . Clinton said that
the strz'te was for Saddatr.'s attempt to kill George Bosh But _.'._ Wn :-te
House accepted the saspicicr.s of NY FBI . ?he strike was also rearm for
tne __a,.de ~r;Center .combing .
Moreover, the White House knew of Sudan's involvement =n tne second
no "na_ng conspiracy, as the Gov't was running the plot . But it believed
than Sudan alone crdn't make sense, as Sudan wasn't even then on tne
State Dept's list of terrorist states . The acr :inistra :.ion thought in
terns of _untamental=sm and tnoAght that Iran was the hidden han9 nehin cl
Sodar . Thus, it leaked to Tom Frieamar that one strike on Iraqi
intelligence headquarters was also meant as a warning to Iran and Sudan
[NYT Jun 28 93], prompting the \TYT Editors, Jun 30, to write, "Tnere's
no practical reason to think a r'.-ssi_e attack on Baath-st Baghaac will
have mucn nave mucn ceter-ent effect on the fundamentalist mullans of
Tehran, Khartoum, or jersey City
But than -s Clinton ; it departs on what _the meaning of is "is ." The
adm_rist--ation c=an't explain itself, because if it did, the US public
might well have demanded that =t as much more in response to foreign
terrorism on US so-1 . Ard the acrr.in_sc_ation wantea to concentrate on
comest'c affairs . Also, iz thought _t,at tae strike would be effective .
Itthought that V__would teach Sadcan .. ___son and constitute warning tco
Sudan, and what it thougnt was -ran, for their peripheral involvement in
t . ._ second p1cm .
!an Iran hat no reason no s_  _ =o slow up the UN . For Iran, the most-
important thing regarding its relations with the UN was than the UNSC
resolution than ended tne Iran-Iraq war declared Iraq the aggressor and
awarded Iran tens of billions o_` dollars in reparations .
Bum who hates the UN more than anyone else? Sure . And Iraq has very
close ties with Sudan, revealed most recently in the context of the Aug
2C US strike on a suspected VX facility "-n Khartoum Tree made more
sense than Iran, as the nroden rand behind Sudan .
In Dec 99, Martin lndyk, than rSC adviser on toe middle East, called
me into his office _o explain this, as I nao written it ap i .^. a book
manuscript I was , ._yang _o get published . I summarized the general
thesis and concluaec the summary w_tn the oa servat .on that the VS strike
on Iraq had only stopped Sadden temporarily . =ndyk's only response was
to ask, "Temporarily?" "Sore, Martin," I replied, "One strike on .. .n
empty building at n .ignt -s not going to stop Saddest forever ."
Rod tnat, "Iraq News" believes _s one basic problem regarctr.g the
aa7inistratior.'s handling o_' state sponsorship -n several of the
terrorist bombings since . Americans have died, because of the sly and
clever way tnam tn=_ administration cealt with the terrorism the--
occurred in the first half o= 1983 .

That, even as the question of terrorism is re-evant to an assessment

.._' the nature of the threat then Saddam poses and '.-,ow the US should
respond . Jim rioagland, in today' ., Wean Post, argoed taat the US should
overthrow Saada :n by supporting an insurgency, c°_caus=_ present policy was
not working . "Clinton has permitted the pillars of local opposition t ..
Saddam to be completely 6rod=_c over the past year years . The
administration compounds the proSlem by surveying the damage ins
inaction and inconsistency nave wrought in northern Iraq and elsewhere
in one country and blaming the victims, . . . Tne Iraq Liberation Act,
conceived anfl steered tnrough Congress my concerned Repu .olican Senate
and House staffers and signed into law by Clinton on Cot 31, can nelp
repair the damage . . It would put the United States on the side of
those who would. end Sachem's international wars my ending one permanent
war he has declared at home . That has to be tne American purpose in
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Iray-, not the open-ended maintenance of int=_rna :ional sanc--ion and arms
control rAo_im=_s that Sadaam _an bend to his unholy purposes .'
F_na11 ::, tne A'SJ editors, playing catch-up, yesterday wrote the
editorial that appeared in tne Wash Post and NYT -the day before and
relied for a military strike on Irazq .
 Thank you very much for your lates: letter, which narr_es the person who has been identified
~y your department in connection with the Andrev~ Giiligan story on the Today Programrne
o- 29 May .

I a:n pleased that you now recogrise that tl-1s is not about the divvlging of sources, which
=,plies that you do not expect in-, to conar.:? or deny whether Mr Giiligan's source is the
same as the name you have given me.

In any event, as I explained to you yesterday, I do not know the name(s) of the source(s) who
spoke to Andrew Gilligan, or indeed to Susan Wars from Newsnight, which carried a story
very similar to Mr Gilligan's on 2 June. Even if I did know the name(s) of the source(s) who
spoke mdependently to these BBC iournalisus, I wou:d not reveal the information as a matter
of princ:ple

You say that you hope that the information you have given me should be used to broaden an
internal BBC inquiry into relations between Mr Gilligan and the MOD Press OE-:Lc--. I art- not
- sure what you mean by this

In its statement released last Sunday, the Board of Governors said that it was satisfied that
BBC executives had correctly followed key Producers' Guideitnes and management
procedures in handling the Gilligan story The Board did not need to know the nanle(s) of
relevant source(s) in order to reachthis judgment .
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Dr David Kelly Is Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Advisor to the Proliferation and Arms Control
Secretariat, Ministry of Defence, and the Non-proliferation Department, Foreign and
Commonwealth Office

He is also a Dstl Senior Feliow and formerly he was Head of Microbiology at the Cnemical and
Biological Defence Establishment, Porton Down from 1984 to 1992 He was Senior Adv sor on
Biological Weapons to UNSCOM from 1994 to 1999, and led and participated m many inspections
in Iraq from 1991 to 1998 He also led all the visits/inspections of Soviet/Russian biological
warfare facilities from 1991 to 1994 under the 1992 -1 rdateral Agreement between the US, UK and
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