{"id":1109,"date":"2003-08-02T00:26:08","date_gmt":"2003-08-02T04:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/02\/saddam-buried-weapons-nytimes\/"},"modified":"2003-08-02T00:26:08","modified_gmt":"2003-08-02T04:26:08","slug":"saddam-buried-weapons-nytimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/02\/saddam-buried-weapons-nytimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Saddam Buried Weapons &#8211; NYTimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a470'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/sandyjett.jpg\" width=\"537\" height=\"203\"><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<p>According to a &quot;bold and entirely plausible theory &quot; just posted by the<br \/>\n        New York Times, Saddam ordered his weapons of mass destruction destroyed<br \/>\n        before allowing in the UN weapons inspectors, to deny the US an excuse<br \/>\n        to invade, while retaining the capacity to reconstitute the programs when<br \/>\n      international attention had shifted elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds &quot;plausible&quot;, but not exactly &quot;bold&quot;.&nbsp; And<br \/>\n      even if the weapons were &quot;destroyed&quot; or &quot;buried in the desert&quot;, shouldn&#8217;t<br \/>\n        we still be able to find traces? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/08\/01\/international\/worldspecial3\/01CND-GORDON.html?ex=1375156800&amp;en=6dd5cdb2acca5a3f&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND\">from the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a &quot;bold and entirely plausible theory &quot; just posted by the New York Times, Saddam ordered his weapons of mass destruction destroyed before allowing in the UN weapons inspectors, to deny the US an excuse to invade, while &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/02\/saddam-buried-weapons-nytimes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}