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06/06/03 5:18 PM

#19459 RE: mlsoft #19456

Mlsoft

Proof? Wiggle wiggle
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Defense Intelligence Agency last fall could not pin down the location of any chemical weapons facilities in Iraq but had no doubt about the existence of programs designed to produce chemical and other weapons of mass destruction, the DIA's director said Friday.

Vice Adm. Lowell Jacoby, the agency's director, said news reports about excepts from a September 2002 DIA report should not be interpreted as meaning his agency doubted that Iraq had a weapons of mass destruction program.

But he acknowledged that at that time the DIA could not find chemical weapons facilities.

``We could not specifically pin down individual facilities operating as part of the weapons of mass destruction program, specifically the chemical warfare portion,'' Jacoby said at a joint news conference with Sen. John Warner, R-Va., and Stephen Cambone, the Pentagon's intelligence chief.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Iraq-US-Intelligence.html