SARIN GAS FOUND IN FALLUJAH

NPR ^ | 11/11/04

[southparkGOP]

You'll need speakers to hear this. Embedded NPR reporter with Bravo Company, 1st Marine Battalion, 3rd Regiment, found suitcase with Sarin nerve gas. Unclear where it came from. In either case, war is justified because WMD have been found, or if it's Al Qaeda's I'd much rather it brought to Iraq to fight our military than brought to New York.

http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=4164561

[LibertarianInExile]

Good post. Except for "irregardless," which isn't a word BUMP.

[fooman]

Nah, you said there no proof official or otherwise. There is tons of evidence.

What bugs me is how smart people, even freepers can be taken.

Intel is about creating a mosaic of the likely scenarios.

Gotta do that since Manhattan is at stake.


But here is another example. Arafat.

We know he bi, because of the Romanian tapes of the 1980s. We also know that cancer and poison have been ruled out. ..And that he is in a hospital of France that specializes in HIV ...

And that he has 'a mystery viral illness' Wortner daily and WABC radio say its aids (platelet counts were low).

But The Post nor fox will run with it. Why? Does *truth* stop at WABC radio?

Who gets to decide what *truth* is?

[fooman]

So what is the point of the Arafat story?


If you are asking me if had aids with a 90% probability, I would say no- we have not seen enough evience for that.

BUT (this is the intel like part) if you told me to bet $100 on Aids/No Aids I would pick Aids...

Since I believe that there is a greater than 50% chance that he does.

[Future Useless Eater]

looks like another FALSE ALARM

I did a search on the NPR site for SARIN and found this.....

Gen. Richard Meyers: Veteran's Day and Troops in Iraq

Listen to this story...

Morning Edition, November 11, 2004 · Host Renee Montagne speaks with General Richard Myers, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Myers gives us his take on the meaning of Veteran's Day to troops in the field, the situation in Fallujah and the possibility of the Marines finding Sarin gas.

I listened to it, the NPR host was your typical naysaying liberal. And they said NOTHING about Sarin.

[Optimus Prime]

WMD Ping.

[Future Useless Eater]

US Forces Move Through Fallujah
NPR (audio), D.C. - 8 hours ago
... And this evening one Marine unit believes it may have
 found a store of sarin nerve gas, though explosives 
experts, I have to say, have yet to arrive to inspect ... 

the NPR audio is on a LISTEN link on this page
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4163601

Christian Science Monitor said this...

In the course of locating seven weapons caches in a single block around a mosque in northeast Fallujah, an Iraqi platoon Wednesday found a suitcase full of vials labeled "Sarin," a deadly nerve agent.

While further analysis determined that the find was probably part of a Soviet test kit with samples, its discovery in a room with mortar shells appeared to indicate an intent to weaponize the material.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1112/p01s02-woiq.html

[boycottliberalhollywood.com]

ONLY a suitcase full? NOT a stockpile, they'll say.

True, true; unless you had a similar sized suitcase at home, and it was full of 762x.39 ammo for your handy dandy AK-47. If that were the case, rest assured, any blue-blooded Dem worth their America-hating, gun-hating, freedom-hating [except for the First Ammendment, of course, {oh, yeah, and whatever ammendment it is that gives women the right to choose}] salt would immediately call that stash a "stockpile".

[digger48]

or a suitcase full of cigarettes in NYC

[sevry]

NOT a stockpile, they'll say.

Exactly. Their first complaint was that nothing was found. Then when WMD were found, the complaint shifted to stockpiles of WMD. That's how libs work. They simply change the complaint and try to quickly move on. They don't want people to remember - always the present lie for the cause. Whatever they think works. Sounds practically Communist. But surely the Commies aren't the only ones to historically use such. And I'm certainly not the only one to suggest the comparison.

[stockpirate]

This is being grossly misreported, it was "Sarah Gaus."

[womanvet]

Karl Rove is Jewish?

[fooman]

yep, move the goal posts.

[Fatuncle]

I just hit Fox and CNN. There is nothing on those sites about any sarin found in Iraq.

[Stellar Dendrite]

Thx :)

[evangmlw]

WMD's were found soon after US Soldiers invaded Iraq, and I've seen it reported only one time. Soon after the invasion, FOX NEWS showed a warehouse filled with (hundreds of suicide bomb vest). Wonder what they were to be used for (maybe terroism). These would have been responsible for hundreds, possibly thousands of lost lives in crowded areas (WMD's). Where's was the media on this?

[Artem55]

These materials were obviously planted there by Karl Rove working in concert with UBL - signed Walter Cronkite

[Colorado Doug]

I think you nailed it. Clearly it's just Syrian gas. A poor, unfortunate, yet brave freedom fighter simply had a, um . . . condition from eating some bad goat.

[soldierette]

That title should be "More" sarin gas found...

[Shortstop7]

Karl Rove put it there.

More likely they'll blame a pajama blogger.

[dcwusmc]

To set the record straight, nukes are WMDs. Chemicals and biologicals are (in military quantities) area denial weapons or (otherwise) terror weapons. They are murder weapons but, by definition they cannot be weapons of mass DESTRUCTION, as they only kill; they do not destroy. Only in the POLITICAL sense could they ever be considered WMDs.

I spend some years as Nuclear, Biological and Chemical warfare defense chief for a Marine helo squadron. I learned quite a bit about them. We referred to them all as "special munitions" but the term WMD was seldom if ever used except by politicians. Since we foreswore the use of chemical and biological weapons, we POLITICALLY equated them with nukes and said that sarin=anthrax=nukes... and said that if such were ever used against us we'd respond with a nuke and make some city or another immortal ashes floating around the skies forever.

In any event, Sarin, deadly as it is, could only be considered a WMD as a political gesture. Further, unless you have MASSIVE quantities, they are a brief nuisance at worst. Released in a mall, they could be avoided simply by leaving the area. And so forth, If anyone wants more info, freepmail me.