They can produce anthrax and botulinum toxin, he said. "In fact," he advised, "they can produce enough dry biological agent in a single month to kill thousands upon thousands of people."
"We know from Iraq's past admissions," he said, "that it has successfully weaponized not only anthrax, but also other biological agents, including botulinum toxin, aflatoxin and ricin."
But Iraq's research efforts did not stop there, Colin warned the world.
"Saddam Hussein has investigated dozens of biological agents," he said, "causing diseases such as gas gangrene, plague, typhus (ph), tetanus, cholera, camelpox and hemorrhagic fever, and he also has the wherewithal to develop smallpox."
As it turns out, the next line was a big selling point according to some members of Congress.
"The Iraqi regime has also developed ways to disburse lethal biological agents," he warned, "widely and discriminately into the water supply, into the air."
"For example," he said, "Iraq had a program to modify aerial fuel tanks for Mirage jets."
And he even had a video of an Iraqi test flight obtained by UNSCOM some years ago, he said, that showed an Iraqi F-1 Mirage jet aircraft.
"Note the spray coming from beneath the Mirage;" he pointed out, "that is 2,000 liters of simulated anthrax that a jet is spraying."
"There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons," he said, "and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more."
"And," Colin warned, "he has the ability to dispense these lethal poisons and diseases in ways that can cause massive death and destruction."
The next line was another hit with the crowd, when it came to selling the war.
"If biological weapons seem too terrible to contemplate," Colin said, "chemical weapons are equally chilling."
He said, "Saddam Hussein has never accounted for vast amounts of chemical weaponry: 550 artillery shells with mustard, 30,000 empty munitions and enough precursors to increase his stockpile to as much as 500 tons of chemical agents."
Colin then pulled out photos and said, "I'm going to show you a small part of a chemical complex called al-Moussaid (ph), a site that Iraq has used for at least three years to transship chemical weapons from production facilities out to the field."
"In May 2002," he said, "our satellites photographed the unusual activity in this picture."
"We know from Iraq's past admissions," he said, "that it has successfully weaponized not only anthrax, but also other biological agents, including botulinum toxin, aflatoxin and ricin."
But Iraq's research efforts did not stop there, Colin warned the world.
"Saddam Hussein has investigated dozens of biological agents," he said, "causing diseases such as gas gangrene, plague, typhus (ph), tetanus, cholera, camelpox and hemorrhagic fever, and he also has the wherewithal to develop smallpox."
"The Iraqi regime has also developed ways to disburse lethal biological agents," he warned, "widely and discriminately into the water supply, into the air."
"For example," he said, "Iraq had a program to modify aerial fuel tanks for Mirage jets."
And he even had a video of an Iraqi test flight obtained by UNSCOM some years ago, he said, that showed an Iraqi F-1 Mirage jet aircraft.
"Note the spray coming from beneath the Mirage;" he pointed out, "that is 2,000 liters of simulated anthrax that a jet is spraying."
"There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons," he said, "and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more."
"And," Colin warned, "he has the ability to dispense these lethal poisons and diseases in ways that can cause massive death and destruction."
The next line was another hit with the crowd, when it came to selling the war.
"If biological weapons seem too terrible to contemplate," Colin said, "chemical weapons are equally chilling."
He said, "Saddam Hussein has never accounted for vast amounts of chemical weaponry: 550 artillery shells with mustard, 30,000 empty munitions and enough precursors to increase his stockpile to as much as 500 tons of chemical agents."
Colin then pulled out photos and said, "I'm going to show you a small part of a chemical complex called al-Moussaid (ph), a site that Iraq has used for at least three years to transship chemical weapons from production facilities out to the field."
"In May 2002," he said, "our satellites photographed the unusual activity in this picture."
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