Owen Matthews Owen Matthews

Something fishy for Haddock

Owen Matthews on the enigmatic results of the hunt for weapons of mass destruction. Have they all been looted?

issue 17 May 2003

If there is any justice in the world, Captain Duane Haddock of US special forces is due a medal. He was, we can reveal, the first coalition soldier to find something approaching concrete evidence of Saddam’s evil arsenal of weapons of mass destruction; to wit, a trailer believed to be a mobile bio-weapons laboratory found parked by a roadblock south of Mosul.

Captain Haddock made his discovery on 24 April, after a tip-off from Kurdish peshmerga forces who stopped the trailer and its attached cab at a dusty little place called Tall Kayaf, on the Mosul

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