"For a religious regime, nothing is worse than having a religious regime as a neighbor," says one analyst who asked not to be named. "There will be disputes over who is the boss."

"A war that lacks legitimacy does not acquire legitimacy just because it has been won," Chirac said this week.

''They still have not found any biological agents,'' said Corey Hinderstein, assistant director of the Institute for Science and International Studies. ''The main findings rely on a single source, the intelligence of one defector. There is weak confirmation. It is disturbing how a report that says it is now confident that it was a mobile [biological weapons] plant doesn't back it up.''

"US officials were not surprised by the lack of traces of any bioagents, because they did not expect to find any. Traces of sodium azide, urea, and aluminum were found on the trailers but officials were unable to say what significance those materials had."
mr ed: am i going out of my mind? is the boston globe? i thought they were ok... fucking hell - traces of aluminium found on a trailer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i dont know what those other things are, but im pretty confident that there arent many trailers that dont have traces of aluminium - and what kind of ass covering is 'but officials were unable to say what significance those materials had'? why the fukk mention it????? my guess is that if they look more closely, they mite be able to find trace elements of a whole bunch more... yep - like hydrogen...
"According to manufacturing tags found in the trailers, the labs were produced between 2002 and early 2003, even as war between the United States and Iraq became imminent, the officials said."