Ijaz: Spectacular WMD Attack Planned for Iraq

NewsMax ^ | 1/15/04 | Limbacher

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Plans for a spectacular attack on coalition forces in Iraq that would use chemical or biological weapons to kill up to 5,000 soldiers and civilians may be well underway, Fox News Mideast analyst Mansoor Ijaz is warning.

"I have now heard three times in the last week, from separate sources that I have been talking to, that something big is being planned for Baghdad," Ijaz told Fox News "Special Report" host Brit Hume on Tuesday.

"The idea that is being put forward is to kill as many as 3,000 to 5,000 people at one shot; something that would be similar to a World Trade Center type of attack," he said.

Ijaz, who in Dec. 2001 blew the lid off the Clinton administration's decision not to accept multiple offers for Osama bin Laden's extradition to the US, detailed the accounts of Kurdish sources, who say they intercepted a convoy carrying suspicious cargo.

"About three days ago in the northern part of Iraq," said Ijaz, "a convoy of trucks and jeeps and cars was brought across from Iran where some of the Kurdish Peshmergah . . . They intercepted one of those trucks that were carrying a large warhead that had extremely sophisticated plastic -- C- 4 plastic explosives in it."

Ijaz said that once interrogated, the driver admitted that there were a total of 30 warheads that were scheduled to be imported to Iraq from Iran.

"We are told now that somewhere between six and 12 of them may have, in fact, been laden with chemical explosives that would be then attached to a rocket of some sort inside Iraq that's already there in a separate convoy."

There whereabouts of both convoys is currently unknown, said Ijaz.

How credible are his sources?

"They're unimpeachable," he told Hume. "I think they've been right all along."

[MikeJ]

Here's a thought - do our soldiers in Iraq currently keep their personal chemical protective gear close at hand? My guess is that they have not been doing this lately.

If we start seeing photos of GIs with gas mask bags over their shoulders, then we'll know that somebody is taking this seriously...

[ClearCase_guy]

I completely agree. The recent dustup with O'Neill showed some of what you refer to. Turns out the US had a plan in place to attack Iraq prior to 9/11. Oh! The horror! People tried to criticize Bush for that. In point of fact, I bet we have plans to invade Canada and Britain. It's called being prepared. But, because we are prepared, the Left sees a chance to criticize the President. On the other hand, if Iraq conquered Saudi Arabia and we had no plan to counterattack, the Left would go ballistic because -- we aren't prepared!

As you say, you can't win with these people.

[ClearCase_guy]

You just can't carpet bomb (or worse) Iran where innocent populations would be killed.

Last I heard, that isn't how we make war.

[kkindt]

In the city where 50,000 were killed by the earthquake in Iran there is some reporting in India that bin Laden along with many of his close associates was killed there.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I don't think karma would be so kind as to place bin Laden in Bam, at the necessary moment.

[swarthyguy]

Mansur's spin is always self aggrandizing.

Perhaps he screwed up in Danny's case ( best spin ) or, more ominously, had a more sinister role in it.

After all, his extended family is still in Pakistan.

And despite, what he says now, for all of 2002 he deflected any attention away from Pakistan's role in 9.11 and always, always, shilled for the Pakistani spin.



Just about to read the following book.

Levy's Who Killed Danny Pearl.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0971865949/qid=1074197166/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/104-5351368-8134316?v=glance&s=books

[Wurlitzer]

Mansoor Ijaz Isn't a loose cannon. He is the most conected person in that area for getting information..... you can be assured that it went to the right sources prior to going on the TV air. 26 posted on 01/15/2004 11:31:09 AM PST by Golfmaster

Mansoors credibility leaves something to be desired. 27 posted on 01/15/2004 11:31:26 AM PST by fso301

Hmmmm, seems to be a difference of opinion here. Any facts to clear this up?

[Quilla]

Taken from a short biography of Izaj written in 1997 for the House of Representatives:

"Mansoor is active in Democratic Party politics in the United States. He also earned All-American weightlifting status while attending the University of Virginia. Born in Florida in 1961 and raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Mansoor divides his time between his homes in New York, Toronto and France today."

Source: http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1997_hr/h970610i.htm (last paragraph)

[Pan_Yans Wife]

From what I read, Pearl sought out Ijaz, and they spoke about Pearl's contact in Pakistan, and Ijaz tried to talk him out of it, cautioned him about the danger. From everything I have read Pearl didn't fear anything, and always was after the big story... nothing would have stopped him from going to Pakistan. His zeal for the story clouded his judgement. This does not rule out the evil of the assassins involved... but Pearl did know the dangers when he went.

If there was a grand conspiracy with Ijaz involved, I would think that would have risen to the surface, by now. Just think how much the press would spin that story, now that Ijaz is extremely anti-Clinton.

Ridiculous.

[swarthyguy]

Of course, I expected nothing else from the Ijaz fan club.

You;re so besotted with him, you can't even conceive that there may be more to the story than reported.

Ijaz is an article of faith; either you buy into him or you don't.

[mystery-ak]

..take your chem-suit out of your duffle bag.

[swarthyguy]

>>>??Ijaz is extremely anti-Clinton.

Really? And so what? He had a nice conversion after Cliinton left office.

Watch him pop up at Hillary fundraisers.

He's a player and so he'll play both sides.

For now he's Fox's darling "expert" on terror issues.

ANyway, he does have his fan club.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

And you are so blinded by prejudice that you surmise that his loyalty is to Pakistan and not America, where he is a citizen.

How sad that your argument ends in stereotype.

Good day.

[swarthyguy]

Ah, accuse me of stereotyping and prejudice.

God, tin ears and all.

Like Patriotism, Racism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Nothing else to say, so I'm engaging in unclean thoughts.

I'm impressed.

[Political Junkie Too]

He had a nice conversion after Cliinton left office. Watch him pop up at Hillary fundraisers.

This would be interesting to see. Ijaz became the favorite "expert" after the Clinton's attacked his credibility after Ijaz announced to the world that he was the Clinton Administration's go-between for Sudan and OBL. Ijaz claimed that he was negotiating for Clinton to acccept OBL. The Clintons denied that Ijaz was involved and attacked his credibility and the claim that they were negotiating for OBL at all.

-PJ

[eastforker]

Why would you call him a glory hog? I don't think he needs the money. Seems to me the military takes him serious. I say he is CIA, an open operative to be used to give info to the media as they see fit.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Prejudice means to prejudge.

You prejudge him as a Pakistani American... not as an American whose family is from Pakistan.

I did not imply racism, nor mention ethnicity at all.

[swarthyguy]

I believe his story about the Sudan affair.

But, he did have financial interests there, some have said in the very factory we bombed.

He maintains he had a hands off attitude to the Sudanese offer. As in Miniter's book, Losing Bin Ladin, if Ijaz was so sure of the offer, why didn't he push it himself instead of handing it off.

Most who engage in private diplomatic escapades usually don't talk about them too much.

In everything he says, he ALWAYS comes off as THE man.

If he was so good, how come the Bush people aren't using him as a private go between as the Clintons did?

Last fall, he reported Osama in Northern Pakistan in a mountain redoubt surrounded by rings of armed guards in a 70 mile radius.

Wish someone would ask him about all his statements from last year and check whether any amounted to anything.

[swarthyguy]

OK,Sorry, my apologies.

Having extended family in Pakistan means that they can be used to leverage him, regardless of his true loyalties.

Having a nephew.niece.cousin in the hands of ISI would be a powerful motivating factor. Even an implied threat.