Armitage `Confident' U.S. Will Find Iraqi Banned Arms

Bloomberg ^ | May 7, 2003 | Mark Hughes

[freeperfromnj]

London, May 7 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said he's ``absolutely confident'' coalition forces will find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq following the arrest of another member of the toppled regime.

Ghazi Hammud al-Ubaydi, former Baath Party regional chairman in Kut, south of Baghdad, was arrested by coalition forces, U.S. Central Command said in a statement today. He is number 32 on the coalition's list of the 55 most-wanted Iraqi leaders.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this.

FLE, another card character bites the dust.

[freeperfromnj]

This article some interesting information in it. This is the first I'm reading about anyone who had contact with the Tuwaitha site dying after contamination.

Three people died last week in the town, southeast of Baghdad, after being contaminated by something stolen from the site

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for bringing these deaths to my/our attention.

[Grampa Dave]

This is an interesting article. This part is scary, and I had not read it before: The pillaging in Tuwaitha started a few days ago and is still continuing with people taking any item they can carry and children digging out hoses, metal plates and generators, the news service said, citing its reporter at the scene.

Three people died last week in the town, southeast of Baghdad, after being contaminated by something stolen from the site, AFP cited Ali Ghanem, a driver, as saying, adding it couldn't verify his account. ``They were buried with the material in the village of Wardieh,'' Ghanem told AFP.

[logician2u]

If there was the same kind of market for WMDs as there has always been for opium, you know people with Armitage's experience dealing with those miscreants would get right to the source.

Not that the public would ever hear about it.

[joesnuffy]

Richard Armitage is a very interesting character...unique in his experience

[freeperfromnj]

I don't consider LeBoutllier or the Burmese drug warlord he cites in his article to be credible.

[logician2u]

That's Ok.

I don't consider much of what I see coming out of the State Department credible, either.

[logician2u]

And that didn't start with this administration, in case you are wondering . . .

[Dog Gone]

The only good thing about that is that it should cut down on the looting.

And how dumb is it to loot a water pumping station? It's one thing to swipe some furniture, but when they're stealing the infrastructure, they're truly robbing themselves.

[Future Useless Eater]

I updated the chart this morning. You should have gotten a ping.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/906944/posts?page=3#3

The only thing I forgot to do was bump the pointer to the latest chart on my profile page.

thanks,
FLE

[BOBTHENAILER]

What a great chart, can you ping me as you update?

[BOBTHENAILER]

The pillaging in Tuwaitha started a few days ago

They make some pretty poor decisions on where to pillage. Sign of how bad things really were over there, or, more scary, an organized expedtion to pass along the dirty bomb material.

[Grampa Dave]

Either way, they made a poor choice of what to do. The French have made a similiar mistake.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And now we have this:

Pentagon: Mobile Bioweapons Lab Found in Iraq

[Mr. Mojo]

The administration has expressed a lot of confidence lately about finding WMD, so I suspect we'll be making the Russians, French, Germans, and American Democrats (and their sympathizers) look like utter fools rather shortly.

[jethropalerobber]

Of course they'll find the WMD - we've got the best groups in the world looking for it! Not like those stupid UN inspectors - they couldn't find the weapons even when President Bush told them where to look! How stupid is that?

yeah, they're so stupid that the US has reportedly been trying to recruit them. i've not yet heard this denied.

i sure wish bush would tell *our* inspectors where to look because it looks as though we don't have a clue.