AS THE UN Security Council debates yet again whether to press Saddam Hussein to surrender his weapons of mass destruction, an influential think tank has warned that an invasion of Iraq could worsen the terrorist threat. They fear it could disperse weapons stockpiles – and the scientists who can build and use them – into the murky world of global terrorism.
Joseph Cirincione of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC says any force invading Iraq could only slowly assume control. It would not know where all the weapons were hidden, so many sites would not be secured. That would…
