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Article: How Saddam got weapons of mass destruction: Saddam Hussein's war machine is being built systematically to strike at the U.S. with new nuclear, biological and chemical weapons designed to kill millions. (Cover Story).
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- October 15, 2002
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Recent intelligence information revealing dramatic progress in Iraq's nuclear-weapons program has given a new urgency to U.S. and British efforts to build international support for war with Iraq, according to Iraqi opposition leaders interviewed by INSIGHT in London.
The information, from recent defectors and other sources working with the broad-based Iraqi National Congress (INC), indicates that Baghdad has made "a recent breakthrough" in production of the fissile material needed to produce the bomb. It was buttressed on Sept. 24 when the British government released an "unprecedented" white paper based in part on classified intelligence information on Iraq's ...