Jacko
Where exactly do you think you are going to find this evidence? It won't be in a grenade on a soldiers belt or in a mortar round.
The closest to the front line it is likely to be is with the artillery or rocket batteries. How many of these have the coalition over run so far? Iraq knows that as soon as it uses such weapons their secret is out. They will have made very elaborate plans to hide their stocks in the event that their batteries and launchers come under threat, they have had twelve years to do it.
It only needs one artillery round in every five hundred fired to be full of Anthrax and the coalition are bound to react as though every round was a biological or chemical threat, thus constricting them yet further and creating havoc.
Don't expect anyone to find huge chemical plants or laboratories hidden in caves or underground labyrinths. Far more likely that in a stock of old 45gal. drums will be a few that are false, that look old and used on the outside, but are full of enough evil to wipe out half the world. The plants that convert this into shells and rockets can be equally nondescript. Provided the whole operation is fragmented, and one must assume after all this time that it is, it will be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Little wonder the UN inspectors found little of import. It will only become obvious after the first shell/rocket has landed.
Far more likely they will wait until coalition forces are concentrated into a smaller area, if they use them at all. Given the limited amount of money the Iraqis have had to spend on military equipment don't you think it unlikely they would spend it on counter NBC unless they thought they might really need it?
Last edited by G.Khan; 30th March 2003 at 15:36.