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To: XHogPilot
Lack of the USS Cole is interesting. An opportune port call to good to pass up or..?

On October 12th, 1990, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 672 -- a condemnation of Israel's retaliation against the Al Aqsa Mosque that killed 19 Palestinians. The attack was provoked by a terrorist attack on worshippers at the western wall.

Stockpiles of weapons were found cached at the Temple Mount, so it was a planned terrorist attack, not a spontaneous uprising. It is widely believed that the attack was masterminded by Saddam Hussein, in order to escalate tension in the region, fracture the coalition lining up against him and draw attention away from Kuwait. When the U.S. immediately began to campaign for the resolution to rebuke Israel, Hussein's plan fell apart.

This was a very bad day for Saddam Hussein. It was the scene of his first major miscalculation in the war (besides starting it in the first place).

On October 12, 2000, the Cole was bombed, killing 17.

On October 12, 2002, the nightclub in Bali was bombed, killing 187.

There's definitely some history with that date, but it's a little too nuanced to put in a post like the one above. It needs to be explained more than the other dates.

Have I been living in a cave?!?! I never saw so many chronological linkages between Saddam and terrorism.

As far as I know, nobody's ever put them all in one place at one time. When you start lining them up like this, it's just chilling.

Almost worth buying a full page add for it in The Fishwrap aka The NY Times. If Sean Penn can do it, why can't we?

Wish I had the scratch, I'd do it myself this fall. If the Dems want to make issues of the war in Iraq and 9/11, this is the stuff we need to hammer them with. I'm tired of the shrill "there's no connection between Iraq and 9/11" chorus coming from these DNC programmed zombies. They need to be shot down ever time they spew this outrageous lie.

How did you put these together?

I was reading that Tariq Aziz interview from CNN (linked above in #6), and when he said "the end of the war in April 19", it just jumped off the screen. That's what got me started.

I posted it here back in November, but I included some things I probably shouldn't have, and it didn't get the reaction I had hoped for.

Thanks for giving me the occasion to touch it up and bring it back. I believe it's a striking piece of circumstantial evidence.

14 posted on 04/11/2004 5:22:19 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
=========== Documents linking Atta, Saddam, Nidal, bin Ladin ===========

Handwritten letter dated Feb. 19, 1998 linking bin Laden and Saddam Hussein
discussing arrival of a secret envoy sent by bin Laden to Iraq.
The signature beneath the letter is a codename, "MDA" - the Mukhabarat.


========= Chemical Warhead found in Kirkuk =============

Chemical warhead found at an Iraqi air base, marked with a green band,
the symbol for chemical weaponry
. Trace amounts of a nerve agent were found
at two spots along the ~meter-long warhead. These amounts are consistent with
leakage from the chemically armed weapon. A 13-foot missile was found next to it.


========= Halabja =========

Dead children, previously playing in Halabja
Victims of Saddams' WMD in March 1988.


=========== French missiles FIRST given to Iraq to be USED Against US and Coalition Heroes =========

French missiles found by the Poles, and to protect France, blown up.

Froggies said they did not say "2003". LOL. Decide for yourself.


Iraqi missiles given to, and now located in, Syria:


========= RUSSIAN MISSILES AND DIRTY BOMBS FOUND IN IRAQ =========

Russian-made R-60, NATO AA-8 Aphid, air-to-air missiles were found..
The Russian-made missiles are >6 feet long. Each carries 3.5 pounds of uranium.
wrapped around a high explosive warhead (13.2-pound) making a "dirty bomb".


Also found in Iraq:

* A clandestine network of laboratories and safehouses within the Iraqi Intelligence Service
that contained equipment subject to UN monitoring and suitable for continuing CBW research.

* A prison laboratory complex, possibly used in human testing of BW agents, that Iraqi officials
working to prepare for UN inspections were explicitly ordered not to declare to the UN.

* Reference strains of biological organisms concealed in a scientist's home,
one of which can be used to produce biological weapons.

* New research on BW-applicable agents, Brucella and Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF),
and continuing work on ricin and aflatoxin were not declared to the UN.

* Documents and equipment, hidden in scientists' homes, that would have been useful in
resuming uranium enrichment by centrifuge and electromagnetic isotope separation (EMIS).

* A line of UAVs not fully declared at an undeclared production facility and an admission
that they had tested one of their declared UAVs out to a range of 500 km, 350 km beyond the permissible limit.

* Continuing covert capability to manufacture fuel propellant useful only for prohibited SCUD variant missiles,
a capability that was maintained at least until the end of 2001 and that cooperating Iraqi scientists
have said they were told to conceal from the UN.

* Plans and advanced design work for new long-range missiles with ranges up to at least 1000 km -
well beyond the 150 km range limit imposed by the UN. Missiles of a 1000 km range would have allowed
Iraq to threaten targets through out the Middle East, including Ankara, Cairo, and Abu Dhabi.

* Clandestine attempts between late-1999 and 2002 to obtain from North Korea technology
related to 1,300 km range ballistic missiles --probably the No Dong -- 300 km range anti-ship cruise missiles,
and other prohibited military equipment.


Still missing based on the UNSCOM report to the UN Security Council in January 1999,
when the UN inspectors left Iraq in 1998, they had been unable to account for:

• up to 360 tons of bulk chemical warfare agents, including 1.5 tons of VX nerve agent;

• up to 3,000 tons of precursor chemicals, including approximately 300 tons which,
in the Iraqi chemical warfare program, were unique to the production of VX;

• growth media procured for biological agent production (enough to produce
over three times the 8,500 litres of anthrax spores Iraq admitted to UN inspectors to having manufactured);

• over 30,000 special munitions for delivery of chemical and biological agents;

• 20 al-Hussein missles with a range of 650 km, in violation
of UN Security Council Resolution 687 (Iraq had told UNSCOM that it filled these warheads with anthrax and botulinum);

• 2,850 tons of mustard gas, 210 tons of tabun, and 795 tons of sarin and cyclosarin;

• development of the Al-Samoud short-range missle (which had the capability to fly beyond the 150 km allowed by UN resolutions)

16 posted on 04/11/2004 5:31:27 AM PDT by Diogenesis (If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us)
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