UN inspectors: Saddam shipped out WMD before war and after



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Friday, June 11, 2004
The United Nations has determined that Saddam Hussein shipped weapons of
mass destruction components as well as medium-range ballistic missiles
before, during and after the U.S.-led war against Iraq in 2003.

The UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission briefed the
Security Council on new findings that could help trace the whereabouts of
Saddam's missile and WMD program.

The briefing contained satellite photographs that demonstrated the speed
with which Saddam dismantled his missile and WMD sites before and during the
war. Council members were shown photographs of a ballistic missile site
outside Baghdad in May 2003, and then saw a satellite image of the same
location in February 2004, in which facilities had disappeared.