Perhaps the two most important questions so far in the U.S.-led war in Iraq are on the verge of being answered: First, does the regime still harbor weapons of mass destruction, and second, where in the world is Saddam Hussein? So far, tests on the drums of chemicals that American soldiers found yesterday suggest traces of deadly nerve agents and mustard gas. If more sophisticated tests also prove positive, it would lend weight to one of the Bush administration’s key arguments for launching this war.
Meanwhile in Baghdad, military officials still aren’t certain if Saddam Hussein was killed by several 2,000 pound bombs dropped into the exclusive neighborhood of Mansour. But if he was, it could change the course of events in this war and for the future of that nation.
Guests:
Colonel (Retired) Robert Work, Former Marine Corps Colonel and currently a Senior Analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington DC;
Jonathan Tucker, Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute for Peace in Washington and currently on leave from the role of Director of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program at the Monterey Institute’s Center for Nonproliferation Studies
John Danisweski , Los Angeles Times correspondent in Baghdad.