Here’s a summary of news items from the last 30 days appearing on my Iraqi WMD Blog:

Al Qaida terrorists struck in Madrid in order to get Spanish troops out of Iraq.

Poland’s President said his country was “taken for a ride” about the WMDs, but that he would continue the mission in Iraq and was disappointed by the Spanish government’s decision to withdraw troops in the face of terrorist threats. A New York Post editorial adds that other groups were also misled, including the Bush administration, American intel, President Clinton, Sen. Kerry, Congress, the United Nations, and “maybe even Saddam himself.”

On the one-year anniversary of the Iraq war, 57% of Americans polled said the US did the right thing.

The press continued to misquote Cheney’s thoughts on Iraq’s nuclear capabilities, as expressed in his interview on Meet the Press.

It was noted that Richard Clark connected Osama Bin Laden to Iraqi nerve gas experts in 1999.

Charles Duelfer, the CIA’s new chief Iraq weapons inspector, said he would not rule out finding weapons of mass destruction. “We regularly receive reports, some quite intriguing and credible, about concealed caches,” he said, adding that former Iraqi senior officials were not talking to interrogators. Duelfer said the Hussein regime was in “clear” violation of several UN resolutions banning WMD programs in Iraq.

Duelfer told Fox News that only a “tiny fraction” of Iraq documents obtained have been translated and that new information shows Saddam Hussein’s dual-use industries were able to produce biological and chemical weapons on “short notice.”

An Iraqi exile told The Age that he had access to three secret underground bunkers where chemical weapons were stored; he also knew of two others around Baghdad, Basra and Tikrit. The exile spoke out using an assumed name, saying “it’s still too dangerous for us to speak out; I don’t know who to trust. There are former army officers living in Australia who were close to Saddam.”

The New York Post reported that a “biochemical plant” was found in Iraq.

Colin Powell conceded that some WMD intel was not “solid.”

A document by the Iraq Survey Group leaked to a Scottish news agency concluded that Saddam Hussein had the ability to unleash biological and chemical weapons at short notice, and was plotting to expand his facilities.

Al Qaida operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for terrorist attacks in Iraq.

The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency said Iraqi nuclear equipment and missile engines have been smuggled out of the country and were discovered in European scrap yards. Mohammed ElBaradei, the IAEA director general, wrote, “It is not clear whether the removal of these items has been the result of looting activities in the aftermath of the recent war in Iraq, or as part of systematic efforts” to clean up contaminated nuclear sites in Iraq. “In any event these activities may have a significant impact on the agency’s continuity of knowledge of Iraq’s remaining nuclear-related capabilities and raise concern with regards to the proliferation risk associated with dual use material and equipment disappearing to unknown destinations.”

General Franks told the AP that he now thinks the WMD intelligence was “incomplete” and “not correct.”

According to NewsMax, Jordan’s King Abdullah said that vehicles reportedly containing chemical weapons and poison gas that were part of a deadly al-Qaida bomb plot came from Syria, the country named by U.S. weapons inspector David Kay last year as a likely repository for Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. In his testimony before Congress last year, weapons inspector Kay said U.S. satellite surveillance showed substantial vehicular traffic going from Iraq to Syria just prior to the U.S. attack on March 19, 2003. Five days after Jordanian officials announced the arrest of several terrorist suspects, the State Dept said they were linked to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Al Qaida operative living in Iraq.

In a new tape, Osama Bin Laden offered Europe a truce if they pull troops out of “Islamic countries.” Europe declined.