{"id":2243,"date":"2004-09-08T01:57:23","date_gmt":"2004-09-08T01:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2004\/09\/08\/heads-in-the-sand\/"},"modified":"2004-09-08T01:57:23","modified_gmt":"2004-09-08T01:57:23","slug":"heads-in-the-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2004\/09\/08\/heads-in-the-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"Heads in the sand…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sweet vindication? I think so! Check out the original article<\/a>, the quotes under the fold or the Metafilter thread<\/a>.
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“UNITED NATIONS – Less than three months after U.S.-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein (news – web sites), American-appointed Iraqi authorities began shipping thousands of tons of scrap metal out of the country, including at least 42 engines from banned missiles, according to a new report from U.N. weapons inspectors circulated Tuesday.
 
 The scrap exports also included equipment that could be used to produce weapons of mass destruction, said the report, which was to be presented to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday.
 
 The report says export of the materials was handled by the Iraqi Ministry of Trade, which was under the direct supervision of U.S. occupation authorities until June 28, when the Americans handed power to Iraq (news – web sites)’s interim government.
 
 The report criticized “the systematic removal” of items subject to U.N. monitoring from a number of sites.
 
 The U.N. inspectors, who are barred from Iraq, said commercial satellite photos show that several important sites once used to manufacture missiles and precursors for chemical weapons have been destroyed or cleaned out. The report also said it was impossible to know what happened to U.N.-monitored equipment with the potential for making banned weapons.” – quote in context<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sweet vindication? I think so! Check out the original article, the quotes under the fold or the Metafilter thread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}