Posted on 07/15/2004 6:54:16 PM PDT by cohokie
It was a cargo ship that was intercepted, A German owned ship leaving from an Itilain port I believe and heading for Tripoli
water-flyer,...wow '288' is 'on'!
There's at least one thread on this in the FR archives. Try "Loftus", 2-10 weeks ago.
LOL, I didn't have any room for any suspicious cargo on that Vessel
more recent then that, regarding Libya:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1169244/posts
Kudos to you piasa
no more news from Loftus tonight regarding Libya.
Thanks... I have a pile of this and similar timelines quicklinked on my FR profile page if anyone's interested.
You have a great resource....'home page'.......thanks for all the good work!
and we have a thread on this story, but I forget the title...
I did a lot of research on Joe Wilson, I said from day one that he was a fraud. A year ago I screamed to anyone who would listen about the fact that Wilson claimed he saw the "Forged Document" before he left for Niger. The U.N. Report shows that the "Forged Document" didn't even exist until 8 months after Joe Wilson returned from his Sweet Tea Mission to Niger
post #25.
I think anyone who took a serious look at his op ed knew he was a blowhard. That thing read like a cross between a cheap comic book and a snakeoil salesman's resume.
First off we knew for a fact that he HAD them.
Secondly, we knew that Saddam was hiding everything he could in the 90's when we had inspectors there.
Third, We uncovered the details of his stockpiles in the 90's but Saddam never turned them over, we had to search for them, and we found quite a bit.
Fourth, Saddam was enduring the sanctions and no fly zones for more than his ego.
IMHO The Democrats used the Joe Wilson claim that "Bush Lied" about the Uranium claims in the SOTU speech as a club to attack GWB over the War in Iraq because that was his strongest reason to get reelected. They had little else to run against him with.
The "Bush Lied" sound bite was a big hit with the Bush bashers and it snowballed all the way through the primaries and now the Democrats are in a corner, because the facts are coming out now and the facts are on George W. Bush's side
JUNE 27, 2004 : (APPROXIMATE 1,100 TONNE DISCREPENCY BETWEEN LIBYA'S URANIUM STASH AND THE RECORDS OF ITS MAIN SUPPLIER, NIGER, ON URANIUM TRADE, ACCORDING TO IAEA ) This may have been the method being used by Libya before it agreed last December to abandon its secret nuclear programme. According to the IAEA, there are 2,600 tonnes of refined uranium ore - "yellow cake" - in Libya. However, less than 1,500 tonnes of it is accounted for in Niger records, even though Niger was Libya's main supplier. -- "Evidence of Niger uranium trade 'years before war'," by Mark Huband, FT, (Financial Times UK), Published: 06/27/04, Last Updated: June 27 2004 21:56, http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1087373295039&p=1012571727085
see above
OCTOBER 2002 : (OPERATION WEASEL BEGINS : US & 10 OTHER COUNTRIES WOULD ARRANGE FOR THE DEFECTIONS OF UP TO 20 TOP NORTH KOREAN OFFICIALS, INCLUDING KEY NUCLEAR SCIENTISTS) The United States and at least 10 other countries helped arrange the defections of up to 20 top North Korean officials including key nuclear scientists in an operation that began in October, according to an Australian newspaper. -- "20 officials defect from North Korea," By Doug Struck, WASHINGTON POST, Mon, Apr. 21, 2003
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