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7日のガーディアンには、「イラク踏査団」長のデビッド・ケイ氏が言及した「イラク人科学者が自宅の冷蔵庫ににボツリヌス菌のガラス容器を隠していた。」ということに関して疑問を呈しています。
同紙によれば、この「試験管」は93年から10年間にわたり科学者宅にあったが、これはワシントンとロンドンにとってはサダムが大量破壊兵器を開発していた証拠になるのだろうとのこと。
これはブッシュとブレアにとってはイラク侵攻を「正当化」するためのものだろうし、英外相のジャック・ストローは「神経ガスのVXの15000倍の毒性だ。」と言いつつ、これはもう決定的な証拠だなどと追随的なことを述べている。
踏査団は、その報告の基調とは裏腹に大量破壊兵器を「発見」したと言っているわけだが、これはどうも怪しい。
ケイ氏はボツリヌス菌がいつ、どこで発見されたか明らかにしていないし、日曜日のテレビ・インタビューで、その科学者が93年に自宅の冷蔵庫にボツリヌス菌を隠すように頼まれたとだけ述べている。
これだけでは、この科学者がフセイン政権から命令を受けていたのかはわからない。
また、このインタビューでは「ボツリヌス菌」が培養の元になる株なのか、ボツリヌス毒素のことなのかもはっきりしない。
そして、踏査団が発見したのはボツリヌスのB株ということだが、毒素が強力なのはA株のほうなのだ。
ケイ氏は「我々はまだ兵器と呼べる確実なものを発見したというわけではない」ことを認めていて、「その科学者は小さい子供がいるので、他の炭疽菌などの株を引き受けるのは断った。」とも述べている。
現在、極秘扱いの200ページになるこのような（生物兵器？）計画についての報告書があるが、ケイ氏も含めて誰もこれを読むことを許されていないが、これは「改竄」されている疑いがある。ケイ氏によれば、この報告書はCIA本部で作業が追加されており、今後2週間くらいで発表されるだろうとのこと。
今後の踏査は9ヶ月ほどかかるだろうと述べるとともに、ニジェールからイラクにウラニウムが渡ったという報告は偽物だが、ニジェール以外のアフリカの国からウラニウム売却のオファーがあったという報告書を発見したとも述べた。
【阿修羅内参照】
イラク：大量破壊兵器発見できず ＴＶで米捜索責任者 ［毎日新聞］
http://www.asyura2.com/biz0310/war40/msg/310.html
投稿者 あっしら氏
「ボツリヌス菌の株を自宅の冷蔵庫に隠していた科学者の証言として、炭疽（たんそ）菌の保存も指示されたが危険すぎるため返却したといった事例を紹介」
米軍イラク踏査団のデイヴィッド・ケイ団長は対イラク謀略活動を行なう軍需企業SAIC社のエージェントだった
http://www.asyura2.com/biz0310/war40/msg/320.html
投稿者 佐藤 雅彦氏
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大量破壊兵器問題で窮地の英米政府の巻き返しのつもりなのか、それにしても子供の口喧嘩並みの稚拙さが漂います。
ウソにしてももう少し手の込んだことはできないのかとも思います。これで6億ドルも使うというのも頭がおかしいとしか思えません。
ガーディアンの疑問以前に、あの電力事情の危ういイラクで（93年当時は安定していたにしろ）10年間も「自宅の冷蔵庫」で、しかも子供もいて食べ物も入れてるだろうものにレベル4の空調設備が常識のボツリヌスをガラスビンかなにかで保存する「科学者」がいるとは考えられません。
ストロー外相の15000倍発言も、お化け屋敷の「アトラクション」となにも変わらない「わかりやすさ」です。
おまけに、この期に及んでまだイラクのウラニウム輸入疑惑をでっち上げようとしているなど、イラク踏査団とケイ「博士」のいかがわしさは茂みのサルやら嘘つき小僧とまったく同レベルです。
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0%2C2763%2C1057558%2C00.html
【Revelation casts doubt on Iraq find 】
Julian Borger in Washington
Tuesday October 7, 2003
The Guardian
The test tube of botulinum presented by Washington and London as evidence that Saddam Hussein had been developing and concealing weapons of mass destruction, was found in an Iraqi scientist's home refrigerator, where it had been sitting for 10 years, it emerged yesterday.
David Kay, the expert appointed by the CIA to lead the hunt for weapons, told a congressional committee last week that the vial of botulinum had been "hidden" at the scientist's home, and could be used to "covertly surge production of deadly weapons".
Since then, the discovery of the vial has been at the heart of the debate over prewar claims that Iraq had an arsenal of banned weapons.
It was cited in justifications of the invasion by President George Bush and by Britain's foreign secretary, Jack Straw, who described botulinum toxin as "15,000 times more toxic than the nerve agent VX".
Mr Straw claimed after the report came out that it presented further "conclusive and incontrovertible" evidence that Saddam had been in breach of UN resolutions. He said the report confirmed how "dangerous and deceitful" the regime was and that the military action was "both justified and essential to remove the dangers".
The US state department even argued that the discovery of the test tube meant that Mr Kay's Iraq Survey Group (ISG), contrary to its own claim, had found a weapon of mass destruction. However, newly disclosed details about the circumstances in which the botulinum vial was found, have raised fresh questions about its significance.
While presenting his progress report to Congress, Mr Kay did not say when and where the botulinum had been hidden but he told a television interviewer on Sunday that the scientist involved said he was asked to hide the botulinum in his refrigerator at home in 1993. Iraq admitted pursuing a biological weapons programme to UN inspectors two years later. It is unclear whether the Iraqi scientist had received any orders from the regime after that date.
It is also unclear whether the vial contained the bacteria botulinum, from which the toxin is drawn, or the toxin itself, as Mr Kay claimed in interviews over the weekend.
Furthermore, the most lethal form of the germ is the A strain, while the form found by the ISG was the B strain.
Mr Kay admitted that "we have not yet found shiny, pointy things that I would call a weapon", but he insisted there was plenty of evidence of Saddam's intentions to reconstitute weapons programmes once free of international scrutiny. He said the scientist who had the botulinum toxin in his refrigerator had also been entrusted with many more strains of biological weapons, including anthrax, but had given them back "because he said they were too dangerous; he had small children in the house".
More evidence of such programmes was included in a 200-page classified version of the 13-page report made public, but experts in the ISG, including former UN inspectors, have so far not been allowed to read the classified version, according to one of their former colleagues.
The refusal to allow ISG experts to read a report on their own work adds weight to suspicions that the report has been manipulated. "They're under huge pressure to come up with whatever," the ex-colleague said.
Mr Kay has said privately the report's publication was held up for about two weeks while more work was done on it at CIA headquarters.
He says the ISG will need up to nine months to complete its search, and his 1,200-strong team is following up an abundance of leads, including the claim by the Iraqi scientist that he had been asked in 1993 to look after anthrax and other biological agents.
Mr Kay also said the ISG had found some evidence to support the British government's prewar claim that Iraq was trying to buy uranium in Africa. That claim had been undermined by the discovery that a letter purporting to be an offer by the Niger government to sell uranium to Baghdad turned out to be a fake.
But Mr Kay said: "We have found a document that is an unsolicited - as far as we can tell - proposal to sell uranium to them from another African country, not Niger. And we're continuing- that's an active area of a current investigation."
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