Did you bother to read the article? Here is a good chunk of it;
"The removal of these materials from Iraq raises concerns with regard to proliferation risks ... thereby also rendering the task of the disarmament of Iraq and its eventual confirmation, more difficult," Perricos said.
"The only controls at the borders are for the weight of the scrap metal, and to check whether there are any explosive or radioactive materials within the scrap," he said, according to the text of his briefing.
Afterwards, he told reporters that up to a thousand tons of scrap metal was leaving Iraq every day.
"It's being exported. It's being traded out, and there is a large variety of scrap metal from very new to very old, and slowly, it seems the country is depleted of metal," he said.
During last week's visit to Jordan, Perricos told the council that U.N. experts visited "relevant scrapyards" with the full cooperation of Jordanian authorities and discovered 20 SA-2 missile engines.
The U.N. team also discovered some processing equipment with U.N. tags — which show it was being monitored — including heat exchangers, and a solid propellant mixer bowl to make missile fuel, he said. It also discovered "a large number of other processing equipment without tags, in very good condition."
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What does this tell us? Iraqis are removing anything metal to sell. Anything they find is going. If they find one of Saddam’s weapons catch, they will see the metal from it.
I don’t think this example is weapons Saddam smuggled out before the war. This is stuff Iraqis are selling for money. They could care less what it is.
What else does this tell us? That WMD may be in various parts scattered in countries buying this metal.
Let me spell this out for you. That means that banned weapon parts, like these found, is more damning evidence against Saddam. It doesn't matter that some poor Iraqi found it and sold it. It matters that it came from Saddam's weapons, and they were banned by the UN resolution. Not that you care about evidence.
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