Sources in the Iraqi Ministry of Transport report that US cargo ships recently brought to the port of Umm Qasr components and parts for the construction of long-range missiles, and others for the construction of chemical, nuclear, and germ weapons.
The sources say that US forces took this equipment during the time when the Iraqi personnel were celebrating the ‘Ashura' holidays which were then accompanied by the bombings and other developments that occurred this year at some major Shi‘ite shrines. The transport operation could take place unnoticed as the US exploited the publicity clamor that accompanied the signing of the so-called temporary constitution to provide sufficient cover for this frightful and dangerous operation.
The sources, quoted by al-Jazeera TV, which cited the Bahraini newspaper Akhbar al-Khalij , said that the mass destruction weapons components were unloaded from the cargo ships late at night after US and British security forces had heightened security around the port. The sources say that the Americans made sure to transport these components in medium-sized vessels so that they would not arouse suspicion. Some of these weapons and equipment were, however, transported in large vehicles to an unknown destination in the environs of the city of Basra under cover of darkness.
It will be remembered that the US and its allies launched their war against Iraq on the pretext that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction, yet even one year after the invasion of Iraq, the occupation forces have been unable to substantiate those claims, giving the lie to the US justifications for its war.
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