Posted on 03/11/2005 6:36:52 PM PST by Stars&StripesNE
Saddam's $2m offer to WMD inspector By Francis Harris in Washington (Filed: 12/03/2005)
Saddam Hussein's regime offered a $2 million (£1.4 million) bribe to the United Nations' chief weapons inspector to doctor his reports on the search for weapons of mass destruction
DevSix is a very smart troll....
That is a rather impressive melding of facts and situation. I wish I was half that good over at du.
Did you see his FReepmail I posted? See post #94 in this thread. LOL!!
I'm sure this computes in DemoRatworld.
However all of these older WMD's were never accounted for - Though there are plenty of reasonable observations as to why not - Many were possibly destroyed during the 91 Gulf War (we hit many sites where these type of weapons were believed to be kept).
Saddam probably destroyed large segments of these himself shortly after the war in trying to avoid UN Sanctions, etc, etc -
So you give the standard leftist wiggle when cornered, pretending that old wmd's don't count. Moving the goal post as usual.
I doubt it, Blix reported tons of missing chemical agent to the U.N.
Forgive me if someone already mentioned this here, but what about the chemicals that were going to be used for an attack in Jordan a year or so ago? Where did those come from?
Dumocrat is the party of non-thinkers
Great point, I forgot about that!! :)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1323498/posts?page=85#80
Here's what you're talking about, Patriotgirl. Wonder what DevSix has to say about this. LOL!!!!
Al Qaeda's Poison Gas
The foiled attack in Jordan might have killed thousands.
Thursday, April 29, 2004 12:01 a.m. EDT
Jordanian authorities say that the death toll from a bomb and poison-gas attack they foiled this month could have reached 80,000. We guess the fact that most major media are barely covering this story means WMD isn't news anymore until there's a body count.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi--the man cited by the Bush Administration as its strongest evidence of prewar links between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, and the current ringleader of anti-coalition terrorism in Iraq--may be behind the plot, which would be al Qaeda's first ever attempt to use chemical weapons. The targets included the U.S. Embassy in Amman. Yet as of yesterday, most news organizations hadn't probed the story, if at all, beyond the initial wire-service copy.
Perhaps the problem here is that covering this story might mean acknowledging that Tony Blair and George W. Bush have been exactly right to warn of the confluence of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. Jordan's King Abdullah called it a "major, major operation" that would have "decapitated" his government. "Anyone who doubts the terrorists' desire to obtain and use these weapons only needs to look at this example," said Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer.
More details of the plot emerged Monday night with the dramatic broadcast on Jordanian television of confessions from the terror cell's leader and associates. The idea apparently was to crash trucks--fitted with special battering rams and filled with some 20 tons of explosives--through the gates of targets that included the U.S. Embassy, the Jordanian Prime Minister's office and the national intelligence headquarters. The explosions notwithstanding, the real damage was reportedly to come from dispersing a toxic cloud of chemicals, which included nerve and blister agents.
Anonymous U.S. officials have been quoted playing down the WMD wrinkle, suggesting the chemicals may have been meant to merely amplify a conventional explosion. But then much of our "intelligence" bureaucracy is still wedded to the discredited notion that secular tyrants and fundamentalist terrorists don't cooperate (see Hezbollah). They may also be defensive about their earlier, dismissive assessments of Zarqawi's significance.
Plotter Hussein Sharif Hussein was shown on Jordanian television saying the aim was "carrying out the first suicide attack to be launched by al Qaeda using chemicals." A Jordanian scientist described a toxic cloud that could have spread for a mile or more. So was it really a foiled WMD attack? Here's hoping someone is trying to get to the bottom of this.
The provenance of the operation is also of note. The bomb trucks and funds are said to have entered Jordan via Syria. Last fall General James R. Clapper Jr., director of satellite intelligence for the Pentagon, said there had been an unusual amount of traffic--including possibly WMDs--between Iraq and Syria in the lead-up to war.
The terror cell's ringleader, Jordanian Azmi Jayyousi, said he was acting on the orders of Zarqawi, whom he first met at an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan: "I took courses, poisons high level, then I pledged allegiance to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi." Mr. Jayyousi said this attack had been plotted from Zarqawi's new base of operations in Iraq. A Jordanian court sentenced Zarqawi to death this month for plotting the 2002 murder of U.S diplomat Laurence Foley in Amman.
Prime Minister Blair has said it's simply "a matter of time unless we act and take a stand before terrorism and weapons of mass destruction come together." According to Jordanian authorities, that sometime was intended to be last week. That strikes us as news.
BTW, that article is from WSJ
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005016
I would love to find out that Hans Blix had his fingers in the cash register.
Didn't Tariq Aziz also visit the Pope before the Pope made his anti-Iraq war statement?
That's because of a far more powerful WMD with the potential to do more damage than the atom bomb...the Democrats!
I think you may almost be right about that :-)
Twain smiled and said, "We've already established that my dear lady. We are now establishing the price."
The UN is the woman of the story. The price isn't relavent and I expect that the UN would sell much more for much less.
Peach, I have asked this man to stop harassing me. I posted his previous freepmail which exposed him as a fraud. He didn't learn his lesson and freepmailed me again:
This says all anyone on here needs to know about you - You posted on an open forum a private message that was sent to you. A message in some context could put ramifications on my wife and family.
Simply because you can't handle the facts of a situation or handle that the conclusion you have come to could very well be wrong - I sent you a quick private message and you post it on a open forum.
Dirty pool bud - You have a lot of growing up to do - And you have never had your as$ handed to you - Grow up, son.
Trying to play victim now, because you have been exposed for a fraud? You've been to the middle east twice but can't even spell Al Qaeda?
Obviously you weren't concerned enough about my posting of your primary freepmail, because you wrote me again (which I posted).
You are a troll and everyone I've included in this ping list is witness to that fact.
BTW, how is NC this time of year?
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