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Banned missile programme found in Iraq: report (AFP, Jun 04, 2003)

US and British experts have discovered that Iraq was developing a banned missile, capable of reaching Israel and other parts of the Middle East, the Times reported Wednesday, quoting "senior government sources".

The right-of-centre newspaper said it understood British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who has called for patience in the search for Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, has been told that rocket motors for the missiles have been found.

Sources told the paper that in the past few weeks weapons experts discovered that the Abu Ghraib military base near Baghdad was developing a weapon with a range of about 960 kilometres (600 miles).

Under limits set by the UN Security Council, Iraq was allowed to missiles with a range of up to 150 kilometres only, The Times said.

You can't really blame the Left--they don't know any better--but conservative anti-war folks, who have convinced themselves that Saddam had no WMD and was behaving according to legal norms, are denying everything they believe about human nature and the quality of evil. Posted by Orrin Judd at June 4, 2003 8:47 AM