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4/21/2003

The NYT gives it's usual unbiased edge to a report of Iraqi WMD


Iraqi Scientist: We had WMD



Note the consistant use of terms such as "claims" and "asserts" instead of "says" or "states" in this "news" article. While the facts are probably correct, it tries desperately to make it sound lke this Iraqi insider is lying.


Illicit Arms Kept Till Eve of War, an Iraqi Scientist Is Said to Assert


A scientist who claims to have worked in Iraq's chemical weapons program for more than a decade has told an American military team that Iraq destroyed chemical weapons and biological warfare equipment only days before the war began, members of the team said.


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