Iraq Wmd, The Cia And Rewards

EDM number 674 in 2003-04, proposed by Llew Smith on 24/02/2004.

That this House notes that on 11th February this year the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) posted on the Iraqi Rewards Programme section of its web site details of rewards that will be available for specific and verifiable information on the location of stocks of recently made chemical or biological weapons munitions, missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, or their component parts, the location of chemical or biological laboratories and factories, development and production sites, and test sites associated with weapons of mass destruction, or sites where these materials were secretly disposed of, weapons system plans, military orders, or other relevant documents about biological and chemical weapons, missiles, or unmanned aerial vehicles, and Iraqis who are able and willing to provide detailed information on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programmes and efforts to hide them; recalls how on 5th February 2003 US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, addressed the UN Security Council on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programme saying his purpose was 'to provide you with additional information to share with you what the United States knows about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction', adding 'indeed, the facts and Iraq's behaviour show that Saddam Hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce more weapons of mass destruction'; and believes that the Government should authorise the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) to back their US counterparts, the CIA, to support this latest attempt to find the missing Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

This motion has been signed by a total of 20 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.