Posted on 06/07/2003 3:28:43 PM PDT by backhoe
Breaking news: They are releasing the documents! Okay bloggers, who reads Farsi Arabic? I'lll buy lunch. It's about 46,000 boxes to go through and I don't trust MSM translators.
UPDATE: FOX News just reported this, no links yet
Craig thanks for the link to the Weekly Standard (to which we owe a great debt) Comments (6)
Captain’s Quarters has a translation of an Iraqi document showing that Saddam Hussein recruited suicide bombers to attack American interests.
Prediction: this will have no effect on the “Bush lied, millions died!” crowd, who are in the grip of a derangement so severe that no facts or documents will ever have an impact. Yes, and there were WMDs. link: 32 comments
You're referring to the work by Laura Mylroie, which traces Saddam's involvment in a secret war against the US since the end of the first Gulf War?
1999 Document Chemical Platoons Applied Training In Chemical Lab to Detect Nerve Agents, VX Agents.. CQ reader Sapper sends along a new document from the captured files of the Saddam Hussein regime, one that had just been released on Friday, that has notations indicating where WMD stockpiles might be found. The information on the memo has not been translated but the notations themselves sound breathtaking: In case the DoD website gets slow, I've also uploaded the document to my server here. Comments (39)Weapons of Mass Destruction Found
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/006713.php
'The Iraqi Regime Has Transported The Chemical And Biological Weapons'
For your reading pleasure, make sure to check out the following links detailing more of Saddam’s terror ties, including ties to Al Qaeda:
There’s some pretty damning information in there, but don’t expect any other networks to do the research that Fox and Weekly Standard have (as Stephen Spruiell notes here). As he says, they’re simply “not interested.”
Prior:
Oh, by the way ... there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq: Document Details WMD Recovered In Iraq, Santorum Says. link: 10 comments
500 WMDs found in Iraq. Just saw Rick Santorum's press conference on TV. Links to follow when I find one.
If you find links first, format like this in the comments:
w3.nameofwebsite.com
(OK, The Corner seems to be watching TV anyway... Try refreshing.)
UPDATE: Allah Pundit says he's not that impressed.
UPDATE 2: Bullet points.
Oh, by the way ... there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq: Document Details WMD Recovered In Iraq, Santorum Says.
(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) and Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) announced Wednesday the finding of over 500 munitions or weapons of mass destruction, specifically “sarin- and mustard-filled projectiles,” in Iraq.
Reading from unclassified portions of a document developed by the U.S. intelligence community, Santorum said, “Since 2003, coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent. Despite many efforts to locate and destroy Iraq’s pre-Gulf War chemical munitions, filled and unfilled pre-Gulf War chemical munitions are assessed to still exist.”
According to Santorum, “That means in addition to the 500, there are filled and unfilled munitions still believed to exist within the country.”
Reading from the document, Santorum added, “Pre-Gulf War Iraqi chemical weapons could be sold on the Black Market. Use of these weapons by terrorist or insurgent groups would have implications for coalition forces in Iraq. The possibility of use outside of Iraq cannot be ruled out. The most likely munitions remaining are sarin- and mustard-filled projectiles. And I underscore filled.”
UPDATE at 6/21/06 5:11:27 pm:
Here’s the actual declassified document (PDF, 132K).
| #50 | jdwill 6/21/2006 04:44PM PDT |
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What boggles my mind is how some many got away with ignoring key messages in the Kay report We have discovered dozens of WMD-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations during the inspections that began in late 2002.
Three of the most important items of the key findings of the Duelfer report (in 2004!): |
*Sigh* Sad to say, LLL3's suffer from "Terminal MAD" (Moonbat Attention Disorder). The poor dears stay in an eternal rage about everything, but can't stay focused on anything.
| #58 | Terp Mole 6/21/2006 04:47PM PDT |
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arf: Does anybody know if there's a link to what HAS been found with respect to WMD's in Iraq?See The Connection by Stephen F. Hayes |
| #122 | TMF 6/21/2006 05:26PM PDT |
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Of course, in conjunction with leftist reporter RON SUSKINDS newly released book revealing a thwarted but very real Al Qaeda plot to release Sarin gas in the NYC subway, this is a very, very, VERY significant development, |
| #137 | rightymouse 6/21/2006 05:39PM PDT |
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"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program." "Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face." "He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983." “We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country." It's long been widely rumored that Russian experts helped move the Iraqi WMDs to . . . |
***scroll for updates...FoxNews.com coverage***
Emerging buzz seems to be focused on why it took so long to release info about 500 chemical-weapons shells found in Iraq. Allah's got video of Santorum and chock full of links.
Austin Bay predicts conspiracy-mongering. Ed Morrissey remembers a sarin gas shell discovery in May 2004. Ed theorizes:
Glenn Reynolds has the press conference transcript with Santorum and Hoekstra.
Allah will have video/analysis of anything interesting from Santorum's appearance tonight on Hannity and Colmes.
Power Line weighs in. John Hinderaker:
Update: Santorum and Hoekstra on H&C here.
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Thanks Backhoe, you do an incredible amount of work.
I appreciate your kind words, and thank you for looking.
UPDATE VI: Rick at The Real Ugly American has an update with an explanation of the reason the Bush administration kept this quiet:
General Tom Mcinerney is reporting on Fox Hannity and Colmes right now that that the administration has been keeping this low profile to avoid exposing 3 of the 5 members of the UN Security council; Russia, China, and France. McInerney says these weapons will be traced to these countries, and asserts it is well known that Russia helped Saddam move most of his WMD stockpiles out of Iraq before the war.
We wanted to keep France, Russia, and China from embarrassment? Well, maybe...
UPDATE VII: At 8:46 PM, the first wire report from the mainstream media comes from Fox four hours later... Comments (50) |
"Anyone remember the news about the hundreds of hours of audio tape recorded in Saddam's office and captured by us? Here is a translated comment spoken by Saddam's son-in-law, Hussein Kamel, talking about how Iraq fooled the U.N. inspectors:
"We did not reveal all that we have," he says. "Not the type of weapons, not the volume of the materials we imported, not the volume of the production we told them about, not the volume of use. None of this was correct."
I wrote about it in February, but nothing I've ever shown a liberal has ever been sufficient to be that elusive "smoking gun" they demand.
The problem is that you don' t find a smoking gun until after it's been fired.
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