IRAQI SOLDIER CAPTURED WITH ANTHRAX & INSTRUCTIONS HOW TO KILL COALITION SOLDIERS

MSNBC | 3/2203 | Bob Arnot

[Steven W.]

Breaking: Bob Arnot of NBC News reports coalition forces have captured an Iraqi soldier who was found to have an envelope with a suspicious powder, presumably anthrax, and instructions on how to kill coalition soldiers using it. Arnot is stationed with the medivac units supporting coalition forces.

[Nita Nuprez]

Who is that woman wearing pink,grey and brown jacket, I getting sick looking at it?

I don't know exactly, but I'm sure it has nothing to do with her hair color.

[conservativejuniorandproudofit]

I wonder if those librals are still saying we cant prove that Saddamn is behind terrisiom.

[Nita Nuprez]

If this information is considered as sensitive as I suspect it is, there could well be people trying to get this thread pulled through flame wars.

Great point.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I agree with you. I despise the media, but let's get those jackos working with us for a change. They'll witness and report a whole lot of things that will have the liberals absolutely panicking. A successful war in Iraq that proves Bush right will absolutely kill the libs' political agenda(s).

[cake_crumb]

"Gotta love that Blixter guy, he was right all along."

Yeah, for a guy who is still trying to define the word 'is', LOL.

[Beck_isright]

V

Bookmark for later commentary as story develops.

[Steven W.]

You are right! This was Bob Arnot reporting live from the field via video phone. He is with a helo outfit that is conducting various missions including medical response and evac. He usually reports in whenever they return to the base.

[Publius6961]

Instructions contained directions for troops to change to civilian clothing and then approach coalition forces with their supplied WMD.

I wonder if they were told that by all international conventions this made them subject to immediate execution?
Nobody can be that dumb.

[Peach]

I addressed my message to "all" - several repeats. Have to leave this thread - waste of time - it's a shame too because it's an important story.

[concerned about politics]

Frankly, I don't care about the opinions of the "international community". The fair minded will recognize the truth, the America haters wouldn't be convinced if the truth came to them inscribed on stone tablets (Oh wait, that's already been done).

LOL. So true!

[flying Elvis]

An ass map would have been much more preferable.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Who is that woman wearing pink,grey and brown jacket, I getting sick looking at it?

Yeah, she looks like Neapolitan ice cream.

[wastoute]

What's worse we are in a losing paradigm with them. It is like gun control, when they lose it don't mean nuthin', when we lose a battle it is a real loss. We need to do something to really change the paradigm, but I ain't smart enuff to figure out what. It ain't that I am exactly dumb. I was smart enough to get into Med School and graduate, but the global reality we find ourselves in is tuff. I just can't figure out how we can shift the paradigm on them so that when they lose one it is a real loss, but I guess ultimately it comes down to good vs. evil and those of us with faith know when that battle will fianlly be won...

[Carry_Okie]

For weeks now, it's been apparent that part of the reason for Turkey's intransigence has been the meddling of Chirac.

EU membership has been a powerful draw on the basis of prior favorable treatment of new entrants. There are a number of downsides apparently unconsidered by many of the aspiring entrants. First is the bureaucratic hegemony to be exercised from Brussels. Second is that there are so many economically marginal new members that would dilute any funds available for aid. Third is that most of the industrialized socialist countries are now in financial trouble and waffling on the budgetary requirements pursuant to the Maastricht agreement.

In short, the advantages of joining the EU are not what they were and Brussels would surely screw 'Islamic darkies' at the first opportunity.

Has anyone considered that Chirac could actually go so far as to ask that Turkish troops going into northern Iraq to deal with Kurds also be on the lookout for evidence they can seize or destroy?

Of course. This looks to me like a global war (or should I say, 'globalist war? ;-): the dollar and American hegemony against the euro and elite fascist global governance through the UN. Look for nastiness in Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Brazil, Taiwan, the Phillipines, ALL of southern Africa, perhaps Egypt... what will the Chinese do then?

The jury is out on whether we will survive it intact.

[Sofa King]

"I wonder if they were told that by all international conventions this made them subject to immediate execution?"

Probably not, but they already knew that not doing it had such implications.

[Carry_Okie]

Besides, if this report is true, that envelope will have come from a very much larger source. When that is found, the skeptics, naysayers and conspiracy theorists will have just too hard a time explaining that away.

I anticipated that.

Frankly, I don't care about the opinions of the "international community".

To paraphrase Zappa, they're busy snorting detergent and plooooking eachother.

[two23]

That is Victoria Clark (Tory)..she is Rumsfeld's "right hand".

[laz17]

All you people arguing about the link to MSNBC: STFU ALREADY! The guy heard the report on MSNBC, then just linked to the MSNBC site. Not the right thing to do, but for Christ's sake, it's not a conspiracy! He's not trying to make up the story. He just linked to web site of the network that issued the report on the air. Give it a rest already, dammit. Man, if our troops in Iraq fought among themselves like what I'm seeing here, the Iraqis would pick them off at their convenience.

[11B3]

Thanks for the ping - I just got online and saw this. I wish that the anally retentive ones in here would quit arguing about minutae and wasting bandwidth.

[GretchenEE]

Well, I guess France has to join our side, then. Watch the weasels backpedal out of this one.

How could France be held to their word when the Iraqi soldier didn't actually use the anthrax? Intent matters NOTHING to the "leader" of France.

[blam]

"I say grab the envelope immediately and compare that anthrax with the anthrax linked to 9-11."

My first thought.

[Darksheare]

He'd think the white powder is coke and try to snort it all.

[Mixer]

This was obviously planted by the CIA

/end sarcasm

[laz17]

The people who believe that we would manufacture evidence in their knee-jerk manner will never be convinced anyway. IMHO.

This is true. Some people, like those human shields in the UPI report, are able to eventually see the light. Others know the truth already, but they fight it because they have an agenda. The most cursed are the ones who simply refuse to believe the truth, and who go out of their way not to believe it. Such people are so obstinate, that should God come down from heaven and confirm the WMD, they would accuse Him of being an illusion created by the VRWC.

[atomic conspiracy]

"This was obviously planted by the CIA /end sarcasm"

The left will not be joking (not on purpose anyway) when this becomes their standard line, assuming of course that the report pans out. As many have pointed out, it will not persuade them, but it does push them farther and farther into the fantasy world of paranoid conspiracy theory.

[laz17]

Wonder whether J Garofalo is getting a bit nervous. She promised to crawl on broken glass, etc.

She'd better find some thick kneepads, methinks.

[xjcsa]

(Im only 14 and Im smater then the average americian)

That may well be, but ya gotta work on the spelling, kid.

[Darksheare]

Hey, buddy.
Knock it off.
You and Dyson are making grade a a$$#$ out of yourselves.
Haven't you been paying attention?
Arnot said it on MSNBC on the telly.
If and when a link becomes available, it will be provided.
Likely, MSNBC won't put it on their site till later, is at all.
That's how they work.
Unless, of course, they want to quash this info to coincide with their agenda.
Which they have done numerous times in the past.

[wolf24]

"Such people are so obstinate, that should God come down from heaven and confirm the WMD, they would accuse Him of being an illusion created by the VRWC."

lol--they will say that His behavior is not surprising given his political stance.

[EaglesUpForever]

I think Chiraq should publicly apologize and resign even if the test results prove they never had any chemical weapons. They have far too much of a military left for my comfort, and I think the responsibility is clearly on the shoulders of Russia, China, France, and Germany.

If this is Anthrax, then Chirac should publicly apologize, resign, and go to prison.

[laz17]

they will say that His behavior is not surprising given his political stance.

Yes indeed. The God they so rabidly hate not only happens to be a conservative, He also happens to be the #1 Zionist.

[razorback-bert]

Will someone please tell "Tory" she looks like a French ice cream cone.

[two23]

I thought it was a pure show of bravery to come out in that jacket!

[spycatcher]

With all the arguing in this thread, you have to wonder if some people shouldn't be banned for stupidity and/or for trying to intentionally put a blanket on Free Republic's strongest quality.

Everyone who has a heartbeat and a pair of eyes has probably seen the live real-time battlefield reporting from Iraq **ON TV** -- not scrolling across some outdated website. This kind of excellent heads-up post is what makes Free Republic better than other mainstream website right now. Even MSNBC.com can't keep up with MSNBC-TV.

There is no URL link to a voice coming out of a television set. What are people thinking? A link to the website for the approriate network makes sense so people can monitor it for delayed article posts. And of course reports like this are almost always confirmed by others who saw the same report. No one is saying the tests have proven it's anthrax, but because of the instructions they found, it's being treated as such until proven otherwise.

[snippy_about_it]

LOL! I love freeper humor!

[cyncooper]

You should be a democrat.

Take it back! I know red and them's fightin' words.

LOL

[mewzilla]

Has MSNBC said any more about this? I've been trolling the news nets and haven't heard a peep about this on the boob tube. I would think that this would be very big news.

[keri]

Thanks Allan. Keep me pinging me on this if you manage to stay up-to-date. I'm in and out today.

[dep]

yeah. i've been going all over the place looking for this and am finding no reference to it anywhere.

dep

[Riley]

Well, I guess France has to join our side, then. Watch the weasels backpedal out of this one. Watch the "peace" protests dwither away.

That assumes that they have some shred left of integrity and honesty.

They're really protesting that Dubya is in office. Besides- I'm sure that they think it's great fun.

Hannity played a clip on his radio show of an Iraqi who was arguing for the liberation of Iraq. An archtypical 'peace protester' called in. The Iraqi blew her arguments out of the water- by any measure. She continued on with her robotic speil, as if she was lecturing a class full of high-school students. There was no dialog, whatsoever. It was as if he wasn't even there at all. The Iraqi started calling her 'little girl'.

[mewzilla]

=80 Anyone seen Dr. Bob?

[cherry]

"Has MSNBC said any more about this? I've been trolling the news nets and haven't heard a peep about this on the boob tube. I would think that this would be very big news."

I haven't seen it either...it should be an extraordinary story....so....

either the story jumped ahead of itself or it was quashed by the big boys ...

[cyncooper]

I've had Fox on in the background, so never personally heard the story.

[dep]

i used to see him in the hallways at cbs, always with a ski-goggle raccoon tan.

dep

[mewzilla]

:) Seriously, I wonder if Dr. Bob is in the doghouse. Has he been on since that report?

[dep]

for some reason the msnbc site carries no mention at all of this incident.

dep

[JohnnyZ]

Look people, we've been through this a million times, IRAQ DOES NOT HAVE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION!!!

It's like you don't even listen to what Saddam is saying . . .