-- Audio tape between senior Iraqi officials indicating they possess a banned "modified vehicle" and had "evacuated everything" ahead of a visit by U.S. weapons inspectors.

-- A second audio tape of Iraqi officials confirming an order "to clean out all of the areas, the scrap areas, the abandoned areas (and) make sure there is nothing there."

-- Saddam Hussein has "committee" to spy on weapons inspectors "and keep them from doing their jobs."

-- Broad government orders issued to hide all correspondence with Organization of Military Industrialization, which oversees Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs.

-- A missile brigade outside Baghdad has disbursed rocket launchers and warheads containing biological warfare agents to remote locations in western Iraq.

-- Satellite photos that show a weapons facility, alleged to be one of about 65 such facilities in Iraq, said to have housed chemical munitions.

-- Another pair of satellite photos showing a purported ballistic missile production facility.

-- Iraq has failed to allow U-2 overflights to provide closer aerial inspection of such sites.

-- Iraq has failed to provide a comprehensive list of scientists in its weapons of mass destruction programs.

-- The Security Council is in danger of irrelevance if it allows Iraq to continue to defy its will.

BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS PROGRAMS

-- Saddam could have produced up to 25,000 liters of anthrax and has failed to account for organic materials that could be used to produce anthrax and other biological agents.

-- Iraq possesses a fleet of mobile facilities used to produce and conduct research into biological agents. Other such facilities may be mounted on rail cars.

-- In addition to anthrax, Iraq may possess the ability to produce botulinum toxin, aflatoxin, ricin and biological agents that cause gas gangrene, plague, typhus, tetanus, cholera, camelpox, hemorrhagic fever and smallpox.

-- Iraq has the ability to widely disperse such agents, including banned missiles with a range of up to 1,000 km (625 miles), small unmanned aerial vehicles with a range of up to 500 km (312 miles) and spray tanks for aircraft underbellies.

CHEMICAL WEAPONS

-- Iraq is thought to possess 30,000 empty chemical weapons warheads and enough chemical precursors to increase his stockpile to as much as 500 tonnes of chemical agents.

-- At least 6,500 chemical bombs, including at least 550 artillery shells with mustard gas, from the Iran-Iraq war remain unaccounted for.

-- Iraq possesses four tonnes of deadly VX nerve gas.

-- Iraq's chemical weapons program is so deeply embedded in its commercial chemical production businesses that even trained weapons inspectors might find it nearly impossible to detect.

-- Iraq procured or has sought to procure from abroad equipment to filter and separate microorganisms and toxins, concentrate and provide growth media for such agents.

-- An audio tape in which one Iraqi officer orders another to remove reference to "nerve agents" in wireless communiques.

-- In all, Iraq is thought to possess between 100 and 500 tonnes of banned chemical agents, enough for 16,000 warheads.

NUCLEAR WEAPONS

-- Iraq could have produced a nuclear bomb by 1993 if his weapons programs had not been stopped following the Gulf War.

-- In 1995, Saddam initiated a crash program to build a crude nuclear weapon and now has two of three key components needed to build a nuclear bomb -- a cadre of nuclear scientists with the expertise and a bomb design.

-- Since 1998, his efforts have been focused on acquiring the third and last component, sufficient fissile material to produce a nuclear explosion.

-- Saddam he has made repeated covert attempts to acquire high-specification aluminum tubes that can be used as centrifuges for enriching uranium.

TERRORIST CONNECTION

-- Saddam has long-standing and well-documented ties to Palestinian terrorists, including the Palestine Liberation Front, and funnels money to Palestinian suicide bombers in Israel.

-- Iraq harbors a terrorist network headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an associate and collaborator of Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda lieutenants.

-- The Zarqawi network helped establish a poison and explosives training center camp in northeastern Iraq. Baghdad has an agent at the most senior level of the Ansar al-Islam organization, which controls this corner of Iraq.

-- Zarqawi traveled to Baghdad in May 2002, at which time nearly two dozen extremists established a base of operations there. They coordinate the movement of people, money and supplies into and throughout Iraq.

-- Zarqawi and his network have plotted terrorist actions against countries including France, Britain, Spain, Italy, Germany and Russia. They have been active in the Pankisi Gorge, Georgia, and in Chechnya, Russia.

-- Saddam became more interested in working with al Qaeda after the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

HUMAN RIGHTS

-- Most damning of all is Saddam's "utter contempt for human life," demonstrated by his use of mustard and nerve gas and other atrocities against the Kurds in 1988 and the ethnic cleansing against the Shi'a Iraqis and the Marsh Arabs.

-- Iraq has more forced disappearance cases than any other country, with tens of thousands of people reported missing in the past decade.