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What, exactly, is a WMD?(Weapons of mass destruction)
The ominous expression "weapons of mass destruction" conjures up images of mushroom clouds. Other dire possibilities include lethal gases or genetically engineered infectious agents.
Pre-war administration rhetoric was designed to give the impression that huge caches of battle-ready WMDs littered the Iraqi countryside. After U.S. occupation forces failed to locate any WMDs of any variety, defenders of the invasion sought refuge in metaphor: it was Saddam himself who was the "weapon of mass destruction," they insisted, and thus any weapons in his possession would be considered WMDs.
The Justice Department, perhaps taking its cue from such fanciful, after-the-fact justifications for the invasion of Iraq, has embraced a similar definition of WMDs. On April 12, Deputy Attorney General James Comey unveiled indictments against three individuals accused of "Conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction in a terrorist attack" against several U.S. targets, including the Prudential Corporate Plaza, the New York Stock Exchange, and Citigroup Center. The ...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 9, 2002 700+ words
...to help other New York area hospitals...involving weapons of mass destruction, including biological...with the Metro New York Disaster Medical...in weapons of mass destruction and hazardous...hospitals in the New York metropolitan area...
- New York Times publisher: paper slow to correct coverage about weapons of mass...
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire October 28, 2005 700+ words
...From AP Worldstream) Byline: MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said Friday...its reports indicating Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, but that the blame did not lie entirely with Judith...
- Miller brouhaha: the New York Times' Judith Miller has been pummelled...
- Magazine article from: American Journalism Review Layton, Charles August 1, 2003 700+ words
...Hussein's weapons of mass destruction persists. To investigate...Judith Miller of the New York Times. Miller is...expert on weapons of mass destruction or, in Washington...Iraq had weapons of mass destruction." Since he could...
- New York, Oct 14 (PTI) Two months before the Iraq invasion, US President George...
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. October 14, 2005 700+ words
...secretary to Blair, have been cited in a new book, The New York Times reported. The reference is confined to one sentence...Pakistan on the list of concern over so-called weapons of mass destruction The comment reported in an American edition of "Lawless...
- New York, Oct 14 (PTI) Two months before the Iraq invasion, US President George...
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire October 14, 2005 700+ words
...secretary to Blair, have been cited in a new book, The New York Times reported. The reference is confined to one sentence...Pakistan on the list of concern over so-called weapons of mass destruction The comment reported in an American edition of "Lawless...
- SEN. JOSEPH I. LIEBERMAN HOLDS A HEARING ON PREVENTION OF WEAPONS OF MASS...
- News wire article from: Political/Congressional Transcript Wire December 12, 2008 700+ words
...dealing with weapons of mass destruction requires the combined...terrorism and weapons of mass destruction today, all roads...Mumbai, Jerusalem, New York, the Pentagon, the...acquiring weapons of mass destruction so they can murder...
- Libya renounces weapons of mass destruction.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire December 20, 2003 700+ words
...from all weapons of mass destruction went unheeded...harboring weapons of mass destruction -- on Thursday gave...free of weapons of mass destruction." Bush said that...own survival." The New York Times praised the...
- Bush insists Iraq had weapons of mass destruction as doubts grow.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire May 30, 2003 700+ words
...of WMD (weapons of mass destruction) and allowed his...Fair the weapons of mass destruction issue was never the...issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the...Foreign Relations in New York, Rumsfeld acknowledged...
- U.S. military confident it will find Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.(The...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Jackson, David April 15, 2003 700+ words
...regime's weapons of mass destruction" as one of the many...removing the weapons of mass destruction can begin in earnest...standing at home; a New York Times poll taken over...used weapons of a mass destruction as an excuse to launch...
- U.S. military confident it will find Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.
- Newspaper article from: The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) April 15, 2003 700+ words
...regime's weapons of mass destruction" as one of the many...removing the weapons of mass destruction can begin in earnest...standing at home; a New York Times poll taken over...used weapons of a mass destruction as an excuse to launch...
Source: HighBeam Research, What, exactly, is a WMD?(Weapons of mass destruction)