What are some of the challenges that the ISG confronts in its search for WMD evidence in Iraq?
• Fear People are afraid to come forward about what they know. Jane Corbin, correspondent for FRONTLINE’s “Chasing Saddam’s Weapons,” says, “We all underestimated the so-called fear factor that made people afraid to tell the truth and reveal things. And I really believe that this was at the heart of this mystery [of the weapons]. And we still underestimate it now today, even though Saddam Hussein has been captured.” • Massive Amounts of Records Iraq was a bureaucratic nation. Although members of Saddam’s regime tried to destroy many documents as they fled, mountains of paperwork from ministries, barracks and factories have been collected by the ISG and will take months, possibly years, to go through and connect all the dots: locate all the facilities, all the possible hiding places and the network of scientists involved in WMD development. Read more specifics of their investigative work in the opening section of the ISG’s October 2003 interim report. • Post-War Violence The ISG’s intel
