WHERE'S DAVID KAY?:

Libya's Disclosures Put Weapons in New Light: Programs for Unconventional Arms Were Ambitious, but Plagued With Problems (Joby Warrick and Peter Slevin, March 2, 2004, Washington Post)

The small desert ranch near Tripoli was described as a turkey farm, but there were no birds in sight when a group of U.S. weapons experts visited six weeks ago. Guided by Libyan officials, the Americans entered a plain metal barn to discover the farm's true purpose: a hiding place for hundreds of chemical bombs.

Inside the barn were stacks upon stacks of wooden boxes, each containing a single torpedo-shaped shell. The olive-green weapons were specially designed to spread deadly mustard gas and nerve agents that were stored separately, said two senior U.S. officials familiar with the surprise disclosure. "The Libyans took us right to them," said one of the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "It was not a place where we would have looked."

Isn't it easier to accept our not finding WMD in the country we now control, than our having had no idea that other rogue nations were developing them?

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 1, 2004 11:41 PM