Monsoor on O'Reilly says WMD will be found before 30 days

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Check out DoctorZIn's posts 27 and 39 for more details on what Mansoor Ijaz said Sunday night on The O'Reilly Factor.

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[ETERNAL WARMING]

Ijaz claims the are in Iran and Syria.

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Check out DoctorZIn's posts 27 and 39 for more details on what Mansoor Ijaz said Sunday night on The O'Reilly Factor. Interesting stuff...

[RinaseaofDs]

I'd be surprised if it takes until the end of the week, or maybe two.

The best news I heard today was from the Hamas leader who said that Hussein disgusted him, because he had been taken without firing a shot.

I think that there are some VERY worried heads of state in the world right now. They can't put enough protection on Saddam at this point. I think the French, Russians, and Germans would give almost anything to have him dead.

I think that now that he's in custody, the magic wears off and people who have been bursting at the seams with information are going to spill. We now have Germany after word of Hitler's suicide. I think there are a lot of people headed for Syria tonight by any means possible.

[dk/coro]

What does "UN" stand for ?

I know about the deal in New York City, where a huge gaggle of greasy-skinned foreign guys park all over the place in restricted zones with funny license plates on their long black cars -- eating in fancy restaurents on expense accounts; and once a week or so, drive to a funny, tall building on the East River with a bunch of flags on it.

All of these guys seem to wear dark glasses, black suits, and have moles on their noses...and have young boys in their cars with them.

Do these scumbags have anything to do with the "UN" ?

Just wondering.

[Billthedrill]

Doubtful.

Afraid so. OTOH, radiation sickness, now, that comes on pretty much right away...

[FairOpinion]

Ijaz is quite wealthy -- he got rich running a hedge fund very successfully. He doesn't need the notoriety.

I think he has a lot of contacts at various levels everything from high level government contacts in various governments to unsavory ones in various organizations, and he is doing a lot more behind the scenes to help in the War on Terror.

He used to be a Clintonite, but when his eyes were opened he realized he was in the wrong crowd and now he is a great defender and supporter of President Bush and the War on Terror.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

My mind is open.

[FairOpinion]

People also keep ignoring the mustard gas and cyanide found in the Euphrates. Where do you think that came from?!

http://www.wsjclassroomedition.com/wsjtoday/war/03apr07_story2.html

WAR WITH IRAQ: APRIL 7, 2003

Marines Report Discovery Of Iraq Weapons Disposal

Cyanide, Mustard-Gas Agents Uncovered in Euphrates River

Marines raiding a Baath Party headquarters Sunday in Salman Pak, which United Nations inspectors said in 1997 was the scene of experiments with biological weapons, including anthrax, found what an interpreter described as a manual on how to fool U.N. inspectors. Friday, a Marine unit drawing drinking water from the Euphrates River near Nasiriyah said it found concentrations of cyanide and mustard-gas agents in the water, apparently dumped there by Iraqi forces that formerly held the city 200 miles south of the capital.

Dr. Richard Spertzel, a U.S. microbiologist who helped uncover Iraq's biological-weapons program in 1995, said that after the Gulf War Iraqi technicians dug pits, threw in biological and chemical warheads, and covered them with tarpaulins and sand. "If they've done the same thing it, could take months to find them. "

Ken Alibek, a microbiologist who was formerly deputy chief of the Soviet Union's biological-weapons program, noted that Iraqi records could show what countries may have aided weapons programs. "The U.S. must protect this material from being destroyed," he said.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

"Monsoor said that by the State of the Union, we'd hear of the NBC, that's right NBC, not just bio and chem."

When I was in the Army it was CBN.

[CurlyDave]

If they were searching for dangerous bioweapons then why were none of the specialists in mop suits or biohazard gear? Were they gonna just trust to luck that none of the bioweapons containers seals were broken or there were no booby traps on the bioweapons? Strange behavior for bio and chemical weapons experts.

What ever makes you think that they brought a film crew with them the very first time they entered that particular location?

I agree they knew that location had no biohzards or chemical weapons. And the reason they knew is that they had previously searched it.

The suits are hot & uncomfortable. They didn't wear them when they brought the film crew with them.

The program you watched said they were showing footage of a search for WMD and they were right. They just didn't say that it was not the first search at this location. This is called "artistic license".

[Pan_Yans Wife]

WMD ping.

Thanks for the reminder, Fair. I appreciate it.

[nopardons]

Why is it " doubtful " ? You don't know how long the man and his family have been ill/contaminated; it was NOT disclosed.

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[F14 Pilot]

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[apokatastasis]

This reminds me of the recent Ledeen-Ghorbanifar allegation that "enriched uranium was smuggled from Iraq into Iran five years ago and some may remain hidden in Iraq".

"The source of Ghorbanifar's information, who would talk only on condition his name not be used for fear of his safety, said he told the CIA it could meet with three people involved in the purported shipment. Those people, including a man formerly in the Iraqi military, could take the Americans to a laboratory in Iraq where unspecified "material" is stored, the source said."

If it was five years ago, that would even give time for the courier to develop cancer (a problem in the story, as pointed out by Toskrin). So I think the odds are that it's the same story, perhaps with some new details. (Further evidence that Ledeen and Ijaz are on the same page here: they both say that OBL is hiding out in Iran.)

[cinFLA]

Uranium is a naturally occurring, chemically toxic, and radioactive element composed of three isotopes. Relative to other radionuclides, natural uranium is only slightly radioactive because of its low specific activity.288 When the uranium isotope used for nuclear reactors and weapons is extracted from natural uranium, DU is the byproduct.

DU is nearly twice as dense as lead-a property used to improve the performance of both armor and armor penetrating munitions. During the Gulf War, some U.S. tanks and U.S. aircraft fired DU munitions, which produced shrapnel and an aerosolized dust on impact with armor or on ignition in accidental munitions fires. DU retains natural uranium's toxicological properties and approximately half its radiological activity.267 Most of DU's radiation cannot penetrate skin, and DU poses little threat to human health while it is external to the body.288


Because it is slightly radioactive, natural uranium is considered to be a potential carcinogen-albeit with a small cancer risk relative to other radionuclides.288 Taken together, human and animal studies do not indicate conclusively that natural uranium causes cancer in humans. Epidemiologic studies of uranium miners experiencing extremely high, lifetime, occupational exposures to uranium show an increase in mortality due to lung cancer, but such cancers are thought to be caused by miners' concurrent exposures to radioactive radon gas and its decay products, tobacco smoke, silica and other dusts, or exhaust fumes from diesel engines.172,321 Animal studies conclude that exposure to uranium for long periods of time does not result in increased incidence of cancer, except in the case of one study. This study found prolonged (more than five years) inhalation of high levels of uranium dioxide led to lung neoplasms in dogs.130,131


The chemical toxicity of uranium as a heavy metal is well characterized. In fact, the kidney is the most sensitive organ affected by exposure to uranium and is the critical target organ for risk assessment.133,218,322,341 For this reason, uranium exposure is regulated based on its chemicaltoxicity and not its radiological properties.129,156 Even so, more than 50 years of occupational health data from uranium miners reveal little epidemiologic evidence of excess kidney disease among workers exposed for years or decades.322


The health risks of internalized uranium or DU particles depend on dose, exposure pathway, and solubility of the ingested particle. Ingestion of insoluble uranium compounds poses little health hazard because they pass rapidly through the body and are eliminated in the feces. However, animal studies have shown that ingestion of large doses of relatively soluble uranium compounds are associated with kidney toxicity.129,288 Inhaled uranium particles that are nonrespirable are cleared from the respiratory tract and either expelled from the body (cough) or swallowed and passed to the GI tract. Respirable and relatively soluble particles are cleared to blood and can affect kidney toxicity.14,129 Less soluble particles can remain in the lung longer and in theory could pose a radiological hazard.


The U.S. Army has conducted tests to characterize aerosols associated with DU munitions impacts with armor and with accidental DU munitions fires; it concluded a service member's risk exceeds civilian safety standards only when he or she is inside a vehicle when it is penetrated by DU munitions.39,96,97 The adequacy of the research supporting this conclusion has been questioned by some reviewers.229,267


No studies of long-term human health effects of uranium metal implanted in tissue exist. Nevertheless, toxic effects are likely to be similar to the kidney toxicity observed from inhaled or ingested uranium. To date, VA has reported no kidney toxicity among soldiers wounded by DU fragments in friendly fire episodes.112 VA currently monitors the health of approximately 30 veterans suspected of retaining embedded DU fragments, and the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command is funding animals studies to investigate the health hazards associated with short- and long-term exposure to DU metal fragments.296

[nopardons]

So, it's all one huge lie and Saddam had NO WMDs ?

Okay, we'll see...

[kcvl]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1040490/posts?page=22#22

[Political Junkie Too]

Ijaz' last report (late November), citing an "unimpeachable source," was that Osama bin Laden was in Iran on the western border.

Report: Iranians hiding bin Laden - Disguised al-Qaida leaders plotting attacks, Tehran helping warlord retake Afghanistan

-PJ