He would have given Iraq a clean bill of health.
The info below is from an e-mail I received from OpenDemocracy.net, a British Web magazine at which the BBC radio interview is transcribed here:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-95-1351.jspoD Exclusive: I destroyed Saddam's chemical arms
Ron Manley who oversaw the elimination of Iraq's chemical weapons
programme, appears on the BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, with Anthony Barnett, editor of openDemocracy.net, Friday 11th July, 7:15 am British Summertime.
To listen live wherever you are. Click here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/(be sure to visit a few minutes before the broadcast to make sure you have the right plug-ins. You will require a sound programme that you can download at the BBC)
Or you can listen afterwards - the BBC archive all their shows.
Concurrently opendemocracy.net publishes an exclusive interview with Ron Manley who oversaw the destruction of Iraq's WMD capability 1991-94. He went on to become head of verification for the OPCW. Despite his unique knowledge of Iraq's military capacity he was not consulted by the British government on whether Saddam had chemical and biological weapons which posed a military threat. Had he been asked, he would have told them that no significant military threat existed.
Manley argues that any militarily significant biological, chemical or
nuclear weapons capability that Iraq had, were eliminated long before the recent war on Iraq, he states "I don't know anybody who believes that the Iraqis have had militarily significant capabilities since 1991". The interview takes readers into the heart of the destruction of Iraq's toxic weapon programme.
His careful words further undermine the claims of the Coalition,
especially the Blair government currently embroiled in a row over its justification for the war.
The article will be published at the same time as the broadcast, at www.opendemocracy.net
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