SO THE UNSCOM INSPECTIONS were going well and poor Saddam was proving that he was innocent, right? Then, why would he hide, Cold War-style, Russian and Turkish scientists so that they couldn't be interviewed by inspectors in 2002?

I'm not who says they did; it's the Iraqi intelligence services themselves, in a memorandum translated by Ray Robison from the Docex dump.

By the way, all this and more can be also found at Iraq Files, over at Pajamas Media.

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