More on those smuggled warheads...

[The One and Only...]

Source: http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl...g=MIDEAST#body

Kuwait says it seized smuggled Iraq artefacts

KUWAIT, Oct. 2 — Kuwaiti authorities have seized archaeological artefacts and ''other items'' smuggled from Iraq into Kuwait, Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah said in remarks published on Thursday.

''Kuwaiti security forces were able to seize some Iraqi artefacts smuggled to Kuwait,'' al-Sabah, who is also interior minister, was quoted as saying by al-Seyassah daily. He did not identify the other items.
Al-Sabah was responding to a question about a report the paper carried on Wednesday that Kuwaiti security forces had foiled an attempt to smuggle artefacts, chemical materials and biological warheads from Iraq to a European country via Kuwait.
Kuwaiti security sources told Reuters on Wednesday the report on the seizure of such weapons was baseless.
Asked about the report of seized biological warheads, al-Sabah also told al-Qabas newspaper: ''Up to now we have not verified this...There are some artefacts that were seized which we are examining to see if they are real or fake.''
Iraqi authorities estimate more than 10,000 artefacts are still missing from the Iraqi National Museum, including antiquities from the world's earliest civilisations. The museum was looted in April after the U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein.
More than 400 items were also seized by Jordanian customs authorities at the border with Iraq.
''We are now going to present those (artefacts) to experts and specialists to check their authenticity. Other items have also been seized which we will examine and announce (the findings) soon,'' added al-Sabah.
Al-Sabah's remarks were made to reporters late on Wednesday after talks with Iraq's new interior minister Nouri Badran.
Badran, who discussed bilateral security issues with al-Sabah, was quoted as saying that many infiltrators into Iraq have been arrested recently, including Saudis and Syrians.
Official relations have warmed between Kuwait and Iraq after the ousting of Saddam, whose army invaded and occupied the tiny oil-rich country for seven months in 1990.

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Okay, NOW I'm interested.

[KevinTheOmnivore]

Originally Posted by The One and Only...

Okay, NOW I'm interested.

"Kuwaiti security sources told Reuters on Wednesday the report on the seizure of such weapons was baseless."

Why?

[The One and Only...]

''Up to now we have not verified this...There are some artefacts that were seized which we are examining to see if they are real or fake.''

[KevinTheOmnivore]

Uhh, aren't they referencing fake/real stuff from the museum...? That's the way I read it, that they were refering to art work...

EDIT: My bad, I read it incorrectly.

[The One and Only...]

The line before was:

Asked about the report of seized biological warheads, al-Sabah also told al-Qabas newspaper:

[mburbank]

I could be wrong, but Kuwait couldn't reallly be keeping our intellgence and army inspectoirs from crawling all ovr this stuff. I have to think if there were anything that coould even be portrayed as related to WMD, tthere would have already been a massive press conference with bunting and planes skywritting the words "I told you so".

[AChimp]

OAO is referring to the fact that they may have found an Ancient Sumerian cluster bomb, so now they have to break open the little stone statues to see what's inside.

Is that really Hammurabi's Code, or a RECIPE FOR DISASTER?