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Positive test for terror toxins in Iraq
MSNBC.com ^ | 04-04-03 | By Preston Mendenhall

Posted on 04/06/2003 9:53:02 AM PDT by kimmie7

SARGAT, Iraq, April 4 — Preliminary tests conducted by MSNBC.com indicate that the deadly toxins ricin and botulinum were present on two items found at a camp in a remote mountain region of northern Iraq allegedly used as a terrorist training center by Islamic militants with ties to the al-Qaida terrorist network. The field tests used by MSNBC.com are only a first step in the evidentiary process and are typically followed by more precise laboratory testing that MSNBC.com has not conducted. U.S. intelligence agents were conducting their own tests in the same area and had not yet released their results, according to officials in northern Iraq.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 200304; 20030404; alqaeda; alqaedaandiraq; alqaedainiraq; botulinum; botulinumtoxin; botulism; bush; chemical; flypaper; illegalweapons; iran; iraq; iraqifreedom; islam; jveritas; mohammedanism; prequel; prewardocs; ricin; saddam; terrorism; toxin; translations; wardocs; wmd; wot; zarqawi
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Keep scrolling for the whole story. It is VERY interesting.
1 posted on 04/06/2003 9:53:02 AM PDT by kimmie7
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To: kimmie7
Smoking gun time?
2 posted on 04/06/2003 9:54:53 AM PDT by speedy
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To: speedy; All
I can't imagine how Blix and the U.N. could have missed this?
3 posted on 04/06/2003 9:55:57 AM PDT by txradioguy (HOOAH! Not just a word, A way of life!)
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To: kimmie7
Nothing to see here, move along Saddam has never seen these guys before in his life (sarcasm off)
4 posted on 04/06/2003 9:56:20 AM PDT by ewing
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To: kimmie7
today is the sixth. this was pretty heavily dealt with here when it really was breaking news.

dep

5 posted on 04/06/2003 9:56:43 AM PDT by dep (baghdad before hdad bags us!)
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To: dep
Sorry if it was, I'm not through with my 2nd cup of life support (coffee) yet. ;)
6 posted on 04/06/2003 9:58:38 AM PDT by kimmie7 (Time to take the gloves OFF!!!)
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To: kimmie7
Don't feel bad. I thought it was brand new today too. Especially since WorldNet Daily had it listed as "Breaking" on their site a couple hours ago. I was news to me today as well.
7 posted on 04/06/2003 10:00:40 AM PDT by txradioguy (HOOAH! Not just a word, A way of life!)
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To: txradioguy
Don't be too hard on Hanz.
He was too busy doing this.

8 posted on 04/06/2003 10:02:56 AM PDT by McGruff (All Your Airports Are Belong To Us.)
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To: All
When we get to a point where the regime is "gone" and we can talk with some people and search the vast bunkers under the palaces and elsewhere, we'll find the VAST tonnage of chemicl and bio weapons. Untill then, we'll continue to prosecute the war.

And if we don't find anything, then we'll have to find those three Iraqi ships still quietly circling around in the ocean, or go invade Syria where all those 8-wheelers from Iraq went just before the war started.
9 posted on 04/06/2003 10:04:59 AM PDT by bart99
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To: bart99
er...... 18 wheelers *s*
10 posted on 04/06/2003 10:05:41 AM PDT by bart99
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To: txradioguy
Thanks. It was still flagged as "Breaking" when I posted it, or I wouldn't have. Anyway, I've been following FR pretty closely and I hadn't seen it.
11 posted on 04/06/2003 10:06:52 AM PDT by kimmie7 (Time to take the gloves OFF!!!)
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To: McGruff
STOP THE PRESSES!

Blix is "curious".

12 posted on 04/06/2003 10:08:56 AM PDT by Rocko
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To: txradioguy
I can't imagine how Blix and the U.N. could have missed this?

Your kidding, of course. Blix coundn't find his own ass with two hands, a map and a gps.

13 posted on 04/06/2003 10:18:43 AM PDT by glockmeister40
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To: glockmeister40
Yes I was. I apologize for forgetting to hit the sarcasm button. LOL!
14 posted on 04/06/2003 10:35:46 AM PDT by txradioguy (HOOAH! Not just a word, A way of life!)
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To: txradioguy
islam is a religion of sarcasm/(peace off)
15 posted on 04/06/2003 10:58:13 AM PDT by squarebarb
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To: squarebarb
It is.
16 posted on 04/06/2003 11:46:55 AM PDT by ItisaReligionofPeace ((the original))
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To: kimmie7
Could we get a print-out of these results on very stiff paper . . . roll it up into a none-to-tidy roll

and then insert same

into certain orifi on certain

traitors given to pontificating in the public arena--especially those claiming to be congresspersons for the Republic!???

[ /joke ]

sort of.
17 posted on 04/06/2003 12:10:03 PM PDT by Quix (QUALITY RESRCH STDY BTWN BK WAR N PEACE VS BIBLE RE BIBLE CODES AT MAR BIBLECODESDIGEST.COM)
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To: All

I guess we continue on this thread.


18 posted on 06/24/2008 9:33:41 AM PDT by library user
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To: kimmie7
As many of us are newly made aware of this article as LGF has posted it 6/24/2008, note that the original original thread is here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/884912/posts
19 posted on 06/24/2008 9:34:33 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (If it is going to take 10 years, shouldn't we get started? Drill here, drill now, pay less.)
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To: NonValueAdded

The original MSNBC URL is dead:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3051076/

From 2003. Nothing.


20 posted on 06/24/2008 9:35:35 AM PDT by library user
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