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King Abdullah: Al Qaeda WMDs Came From Syria
NewsMax.com ^
| 4/17/04
| Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Posted on 04/17/2004 12:14:12 PM PDT by kattracks
Jordan's King Abdullah revealed on Saturday that vehicles reportedly containing chemical weapons and poison gas that were part of a deadly al Qaeda bomb plot came from Syria, the country named by U.S. weapons inspector David Kay last year as a likely repository for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
"It was a major, major operation. It would have decapitated the government," King Abdullah told the San Francisco Chronicle. Jordanian officials estimated that the death count could have been as high as 20,000 - seven times greater than the Sept. 11 attacks.
Abdullah said that trucks containing 17.5 tons of explosives had come from Syria, though he took pains not to implicate Syrian President Bashir Assad in the al Qaeda plot, saying, "I'm completely confident that Bashir did not know about it."
In his testimony before Congress last year, Mr. Kay said U.S. satellite surveillance showed substantial vehicular traffic going from Iraq to Syria just prior to the U.S.attack on March 19, 2003 attack.
While Kay said investigators couldn't be sure the cargo contained weapons of mass destruction, one of his top advisors described the evidence as "unquestionable."
"People below the Saddam-Hussein-and-his-sons level saw what was coming and decided the best thing to do was to destroy and disperse," said James Clapper, in comments reported by the New York Times on Oct. 29. Clapper heads up the National Imagery and Mapping Agency.
Israeli intelligence has long believed that after the U.S. delayed invasion plans to allow U.N. weapons inspectors time to search for Iraq's WMDs, Saddam moved the banned weapons to Syria, the only other country where the Ba'ath Party ruled.
On April 1, Jordanian officials announced the arrest of several terrorist suspects, saying they were still hunting for two cars filled with explosives.
Five days later, the State Department revealed the attackers were linked to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian-based terrorist considered to be one of al Qaeda's most dangerous. One of Zarqawi's targets was the U.S. embassy in Amman.
By Saturday morning European news services were quoting an unnamed Jordanian official who revealed that the al Qaeda plotters planned to use weapons of mass destruction in the foiled attack.
"We found primary materials to make a chemical bomb which, if it had exploded, would have made nearly 20,000 deaths ... in an area of one square kilometre," the official told Agence France Press.
Another operation planned by the network was to use "deadly gas against the US embassy and the prime minister's office in Amman," he added.
A car belonging to the al Qaeda plotters, containing a chemical bomb and poisonous gas, was intercepted just 75 miles from the Syrian border.
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abdullah; alqaedasyria; davidkay; jordan; mediasleep; supressed; wmd
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To: Gritty
Meanwhile, over 90 US Soldiers and Marines have been killed this month, the most of any since the war began. Over 700 have been killed since March, 2003.
OK, I'm going back to sleep now. 'night.
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posted on
04/19/2004 11:18:37 AM PDT
by
johnb838
("I really don't care; they're all gonna die," US Marine in Fallujah)
To: kattracks
I had to laugh, MSNBC just had breaking new indicating that 2 suspects and 20 tons of chemical have been arrested in Jordan. They needed a week days to debate whether this would support Bush's contention that Iraq had WMD and decided to not announce it for fear it would. Don't know why they bothered now that it is old news.
To: FL_engineer; Thinkin' Gal; what's up; kattracks; spycatcher; Geist Krieger; All
Shalom!
>>"Abdullah said that trucks containing 17.5 tons of explosives had come from Syria.">>
Could They have been SADAM'S RED HOT RadioActive NUKES?
What "Other" Explosives could kill 20,000 or More in just one event?
Abdullah is an ISLAMIC LIAR From The Pit Of HELL.
He Always has to Cover His Own Behind, that's the Only way to Survive over there....LIE, LIE, LIE and MORE LIES.
I think that We ought to take a Serious LOOK SEE at SYRIA and IRAN.
WE should also get MOMAR the Ka Daffy to tell SYRIA and IRAN that the USA is NOT going to Come Out and Play Nice!
NOT THIS TIME.
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posted on
04/19/2004 2:12:05 PM PDT
by
Simcha7
((The Plumb - Line has been Drawn, T'shuvah/Return for The Kingdom of HaShem is at hand!))
To: scannell
Is this story ever going to hit the "alphabet network" news shows? This is a really important story and I think they're supressing the story because it strengthens the political hand of conservatives.
104
posted on
04/19/2004 4:01:47 PM PDT
by
defenderSD
(Contrary to rumors circulating on the web, I am not Silvio Berlusconi.)
To: defenderSD
I think they're supressing the story because it strengthens the political hand of conservatives. I fully agree.
To: kattracks
Awesome..the Jordanian King sells out his semi/muslim fascist brother... : )
Bashar Assad:"Help me Hosni...help me....Help me Kirk...Help me Kirk !: )
Pharaoh *Hoser Mubarak:"Who is this french looking tourist"?
" Look...Ezz-ra-eeli Jets heading to Syria"...
Yup..Baghdad Bob would say its a *Bomb and Bath!
To: Ethyl; justshutupandtakeit; swarthyguy; Mitchell; kattracks; FL_engineer; chiller; stboz; Shermy; ..
Update by John Loftus WABC
2004-04-19
Last month 3 trucks from Syria
crossed the Kaim Cross point
went 75 miles into Jordan
to make a transfer of 7 1/2 tons
of nerve gas.
This was observed by coalition snoopers.
The gas was probably one of the 'G-series'
(Sarin, VX, etc.)
Syria does not make Sarin nerve gas
it had to come from Iraq.
The gas had been transferred to Al Qaeda.
It is possible President Assad may not have known
it may have been authorized by the Defence Minister.
Syria had decided to get rid of the WMD
at first tried to send it to Sudan
but Israeli secret service got wind of it
so they gave it to Al Qaeda.
There now is a black out
of news coming from Jordan.
107
posted on
04/19/2004 8:11:41 PM PDT
by
Allan
To: Allan
The Jordanian English language press is indeed not discussing this as much as I would expect.
108
posted on
04/19/2004 8:24:06 PM PDT
by
Shermy
To: Allan
Wow! This is huge if true. And if true, I have no idea why the administration isn't all over this one.
To: Allan
Last month 3 trucks from Syria crossed the Kaim Cross point "Al Qaim" is a town on the Syrian Iraqi border. Where the recent "border" fighting has taken place.
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posted on
04/19/2004 8:33:54 PM PDT
by
Shermy
To: kattracks
God forgive me. I cannot think of anything hideous enough to do to these bastards.
If you are a Muslim reading this, you MUST do something to recover your self-respect...not to mention the rest of the world.
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posted on
04/19/2004 8:52:40 PM PDT
by
stboz
To: Diogenesis
BTTT
112
posted on
04/19/2004 9:23:02 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(LESS government please, NOT more.)
To: Allan
BMP
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posted on
04/19/2004 9:45:11 PM PDT
by
shield
(The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
To: cincinnati65
Yes, it is politics at its worst. Remember, the democrats sit in on all the same briefs that the republicans do.
Let me illustrate an example - everyone knows Saddam secreted his stuff in the country or sent it off to some other terrorist-harboring areas of some unstable areas of concern.
During the Cold War, Eisenhower discovered through classified intelligence, sources and methods and information that could not be made public that the Soviets were overestimating their missile and defense capabilities in public, but Ike knew the real deal. Accordingly and with good fiscal discipline he reduced our nation's defense budget. Now, keeping in mind that senior democratic leadership was also aware of this, what did they do?
They immediately claimed "Ike is soft on Communism! We need to spend more to meet the Soviet threat!!" Everyone is mum on the "missing" WMD for whatever reason or more likely a number of damn good reasons, and here come the political whores to make hay out of national security issues. The radical left is completely out of control, and truth be told, real democrats probably hate them more than we do, they have to live with them.
To: Gritty
This isn't just lame writing, it's criminal. People reading our paper are being denied the facts and fed crap. How can citizens make any kind of a valid judgment when they are not getting all the facts but instead get a cleverly crafted web of innuendos, lies and false conclusions?
He who defines the terms of the debate wins every time, and news organizations have been dominated by leftists for quite a while. Local papers are usually pretty conservative by comparison, but the sheer volume overwhelms. Leftists dominate Academia too, that's no secret. And hollywood.
However, facts are stubborn things. Notice the left starts screeching to a fever pitch when they don't have de facto control over the organs of information dissemination. I am a Liberal, but in the classical sense. The hard core leftists today is the most intolerant authoritarian bastard you'll ever want to meet, since they cannot compete in the arena of ideas and reasoned logical discourse, they use deceit and trickery and every dirty method in the book to advance their agenda, without any input or consultation from you, the citizen of your own country. For a good overview of their methods, I _strongly_ encourage you to Google "The Delphi Technique" and "Saul Alinsky" "Rules for Radicals"; the mistake normal folks make is believing that in our form of government and representative democracy that people will play by the rules and listen to reason and seek the truth. Nothing could be further from that, truth, the only thing they care about is power and using it.
To: Anti-Bubba182
Most likely, the Bush Admin is not all over this story because they can't be 100% sure that it's true. And if you're a Republican you have try to be certain that everything you say is completely true and verifiable, otherwise the left-leaning media will jump all over you and call you a liar. (And Al-Qaetie Kouric will sneer at you on the "Today Show".) Of course, if you're a Democrat you can say anything you want and the media ignores you when you make false statements.
So the Bushies are probably just working hard to develop indisputable and verifiable evidence of WMD that were transferred from Iraq. I hope and pray that they succeed in this effort.
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posted on
04/19/2004 10:19:06 PM PDT
by
defenderSD
(Contrary to rumors circulating on the web, I am not Silvio Berlusconi.)
To: defenderSD
That is a good point about the administration having to be very sure about this before they announce anything.
I hope they are checking into this seriously.
To: johnb838
btt
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posted on
04/20/2004 6:23:17 AM PDT
by
DBrow
To: Mr. Mojo
You read my mind. The History Channel had a report about a year ago suggesting that very strategy. Trucks loaded with WMD, always traveling under the cloak of night.
To: Allan
Thanks for the information!
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