Next, he went on to share what they had learned about the trailers from "eye witness accounts."
"We have firsthand descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels and on rails," he advised.
"The trucks and train cars are easily moved," he said, "and are designed to evade detection by inspectors."
"In a matter of months," he explained, "they can produce a quantity of biological poison equal to the entire amount that Iraq claimed to have produced in the years prior to the Gulf War."
Had I been watching this speech live, I know I would have thought, "Wow."
According to Colin, four eye-witness sources confirmed that Saddam had these mobile biological research laboratories.
Here he used the word "know" again.
"We know," he said, "that Iraq has at lest seven of these mobile biological agent factories."
"The truck-mounted ones have at least two or three trucks each," he said. "That means that the mobile production facilities are very few, perhaps 18 trucks that we know of--there may be more--but perhaps 18 that we know of," he advised.
A month after the war began, the administration announced that two weapons vans had been found in Iraq.
On May 21, 2003, in remarks after a meeting with Bahrain's Crown Prince Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, Colin was still rambling on about the damn trailers.
"The intelligence community has really looked hard at these vans," he said, "and we can find no other purpose for them."
"Although you can't find actual germs on them," he continued, "they have been cleaned and we don't know whether they have been used for that purpose or not, but they were certainly designed and constructed for that purpose," he assured his audience.
"And we have taken our time on this one because we wanted to make sure we got it right," he said.
"And the intelligence community, I think," he said, "is convinced now that that's the purpose they served."
The next day, during an Interview with French Television on May 22, 2003, Colin elaborated further on the great discovery of the "weapons vans."
"We have firsthand descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels and on rails," he advised.
"The trucks and train cars are easily moved," he said, "and are designed to evade detection by inspectors."
"In a matter of months," he explained, "they can produce a quantity of biological poison equal to the entire amount that Iraq claimed to have produced in the years prior to the Gulf War."
According to Colin, four eye-witness sources confirmed that Saddam had these mobile biological research laboratories.
Here he used the word "know" again.
"We know," he said, "that Iraq has at lest seven of these mobile biological agent factories."
"The truck-mounted ones have at least two or three trucks each," he said. "That means that the mobile production facilities are very few, perhaps 18 trucks that we know of--there may be more--but perhaps 18 that we know of," he advised.
A month after the war began, the administration announced that two weapons vans had been found in Iraq.
On May 21, 2003, in remarks after a meeting with Bahrain's Crown Prince Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, Colin was still rambling on about the damn trailers.
"The intelligence community has really looked hard at these vans," he said, "and we can find no other purpose for them."
"Although you can't find actual germs on them," he continued, "they have been cleaned and we don't know whether they have been used for that purpose or not, but they were certainly designed and constructed for that purpose," he assured his audience.
"And we have taken our time on this one because we wanted to make sure we got it right," he said.
"And the intelligence community, I think," he said, "is convinced now that that's the purpose they served."
The next day, during an Interview with French Television on May 22, 2003, Colin elaborated further on the great discovery of the "weapons vans."
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