Colin Powell: Biological Weapons - Andy Fite — Transcript

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1. 0:06first biological
2. 0:16weapons we have talked frequently here
3. 0:18about biological weapons by way of
4. 0:22introduction in history I think there
5. 0:24are just three quick points I need to
6. 0:25make first you will recall that it took
7. 0:28uncom for long and frustrating years to
8. 0:30pry to pry to pry to pry an admission
9. 0:32out of Iraq that it had biological
10. 0:34weapons second when Iraq finally
11. 0:36admitted to having these weapons in 1995
12. 0:39the quantities were
13. 0:41vast less than a teaspoon of dry Anthrax
14. 0:44a little bit about this amount this is
15. 0:46just about the amount of teaspoon less
16. 0:49than a teaspoonful of dry Anthrax and an
17. 0:50envelope shut down the United States
18. 0:52Senate in the fall of
19. 0:552001 this forced several hundred people
20. 0:57to undergo emergency medical treatment
21. 1:00and killed two postal workers just from
22. 1:02an amount just from an amount just from
23. 1:04an amount just about this quantity that
24. 1:06was inside of an envelope Iraq declared
25. 1:098500 L of Anthrax but uncom estimates
26. 1:13that Saddam Hussein could have produced
27. 1:1425,000 liters if concentrated into this
28. 1:17drive form this amount would be enough
29. 1:19to fill tens upon tens upon tens upon
30. 1:21tens upon tens upon tens of thousands of
31. 1:23teaspoons and Saddam Hussein has not
32. 1:25verifiably accounted for even one
33. 1:27teaspoon full of this deadly material
34. 1:30and that is my third point and it is key
35. 1:34the Iraqis have never accounted for all
36. 1:36of the biological weapons they admitted
37. 1:38they had and we know they
38. 1:41had they have never accounted for all
39. 1:43the organic material used to make them
40. 1:45and they have not accounted for many of
41. 1:47the weapons filled with these agents
42. 1:49such as there are 400 bombs this is
43. 1:52evidence not conjecture this is true
44. 1:56this is all well
45. 1:58documented
46. 2:02one of the most worrisome things that
47. 2:04emerges from the thick intelligence file
48. 2:06we have on IR Rock's biological weapons
49. 2:08is the existence of mobile production
50. 2:11facilities used to make biological
51. 2:14agents let me take you inside the
52. 2:16intelligence file and share with you
53. 2:18what we know from eyewitness accounts we
54. 2:21have firsthand descriptions of
55. 2:22biological weapons factories on Wheels
56. 2:24and on Rails and on Wheels and on Rails
57. 2:26and on Wheels and on Rails on Wheels and
58. 2:28rails
59. 2:30the trucks and train cars are easily
60. 2:32moved and are designed to evade
61. 2:34detection by inspectors in a matter of
62. 2:37months they can produce a quantity of
63. 2:39biological poison equal to the entire
64. 2:43amount that Iraq claimed to have
65. 2:45produced in the Years prior to the Gulf
66. 2:51War although Iraq's mobile production
67. 2:54program began in the mid
68. 2:551990s un inspectors at the time only had
69. 2:59B hints of such such a
70. 3:01program confirmation came later in the
71. 3:04year
72. 3:082000 The Source was an eyewitness an
73. 3:10Iraqi chemical engineer who supervised
74. 3:13one of these
75. 3:14facilities he actually was present
76. 3:17during biological agent production runs
77. 3:20and he was also at the site when an
78. 3:22accident occurred in
79. 3:261998 12 technicians died from from
80. 3:30exposure to
81. 3:31biological
82. 3:41agents