Tuesday, May 6, 2003
Senior Defense officials told Fox News they are "confident" the vehicle was used to manufacture biological or chemical weapons agents. The vehicle contained fermenting tanks and dryers, such as those used to make the powder form of anthrax (search). Initial tests on the interior of the vehicle, which appeared to have been thoroughly cleaned, turned up negative results, but officials said tests were ongoing.
"There are a number of tests going on right now in a number of different locations in regards to Iraqi weapons of mass destruction," officials told Fox News.
The vehicle resembles an 18-wheeler Secretary of State Colin Powell (search) said in a Feb. 5 presentation before the U.N. Security Council was a mobile weapons lab that had been moved around to elude weapons inspectors.[...]
Well, we already knew that these things existed. The Iraqis admited it and reported it back in March. Of course they didn't admit they were for weapons.
According to the story, the lab is turning up negative for any illicit substances, having been cleaned out. Without a barrel full of anthrax on a missile ready to launch it wouldn't matter in the rhetorical battle anyway. Keep searching fellas.
