Can Inspectors find a hidden lab in a country?

[Epidemic]

Before Iraq invaded kuwait, Saddam owned a country. He did not need to hide his weapons of mass destruction. So the inspectors basically could find many weapon stores and labs.

During the last 12 years do you believe that saddam would leave his WOMD out in the open? Is he that stupid?

With that said. Could saddam hide a lab underground under a farmhouse? In said situation could a hundred inspectors locate such a facility?

Do you believe that if the inspectors find nothing that this proves anything except that saddam may have learned a lesson from before?

Or do you believe that we have some inside information and we will find the weapon stashes with out a problem if they exist?

[RobRich]

We didn't find any large stashes of WOMD them before, why now? Saddam knows how to play the game by now.

Robert Richmond

If you see the details of the UN resolution, they are ludicurous. It states that Saddam hussain has to point out where the inspectors should go for inspection and that the Iraqi authorities should then facilitate the visit.

Right.

Like telling the Defence Attorneys to also prosecute, judge and sentence the perp.

Ep- you votted on the luck thing?

SH'll just send them here and there and find nothing. Kinda like a paid vacation for the inspector dudes. Though I'm not sure Iraq is at the top of my vacation destinations.

[Epidemic]

The last time we were there with inspectors they found tons of chemical weapons AFAIK.

I also believe that they stumbled on the stashes that saddam did not wan them to inspect and that is when he became difficult about allowing access. During the weeks of stalling he would move and hide the stash.

I think we could luck out and stumble on the stashes. But I lean toward No it is too big a country to effectively search. Heck I bet I could hide a bilogical weapons facility in the back of a pharmacy in NYC and let the inspectors search for 10 years and they could not find it if I did not want them to. And manhattan is only 2 miles by 11 miles.

[Epidemic]

CM,

Come on you must have an opinion on this one.

[RobRich]

found tons of chemical weapons

The search this time will be more concentric to nuclear and biological weapons as most chemical weapons offer no significant long-term impact beyond their immediate kill radius.

[Toadman]

I think we have a pretty good idea where to look. We’ve had 10 years of time to gather intel and satellite images, and I’m sure we have operatives on the ground. Even when the UN inspectors were barred from the country it didn’t stop the need to continue the inspections by other means. Hope they use trained dogs in their inspections. Even residue lasts for months.

[willy_ph]

Chemicals aren't as difficult, nor expensive, to produce in relation to biological and nuclear weapons. I'd personally give up the weapons that were cheapest to produce ahead of other, much more costly, weapons.

Plus, biological and nuclear weapons can have a greater impact if used than chemicals do.

If they didn't find them last time, what's there to say that they will find them this time?

[Jonty]

Like I said in a previous similar post this inspection lark is ludicrous. These weapons and whatever can be hidden in caves, and all manner of places.

He'll probably 'let' the inspectors find one or two stashes of weapons and then say 'yes, that is all the weapons we have, lol'.

An impossible task even with the best intelligence.

[J-Excel]

We only need to find 1.