http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/wmd/ en-us Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:06:18 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2407602/posts The UK Times Online is reporting that Iran has been working on a nuclear trigger (neutron generator) since 2007. The technical document describes the use of a neutron source, uranium deuteride, which independent experts confirm has no possible civilian or military use other than in a nuclear weapon. Uranium deuteride is the material used in Pakistan’s bomb, from where Iran obtained its blueprint. “Although Iran might claim that this work is for civil purposes, there is no civil application,” said David Albright, a physicist and president of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington, which has analysed hundreds... World Threats http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2407602/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:06:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406545/posts It would have been right to remove Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein even without evidence he had weapons of mass destruction (WMD), Tony Blair has said. The former prime minister said it was the "notion" of Saddam as a threat to the region which tilted him in favour of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. But his words have attracted critics - among them Hans Blix, who was in charge of the UN team searching Iraq for WMD. BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406545/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:55:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406698/posts The title of that article above, from the LA Times, is titled: WMD Not Point Of Iraq War. Of course it wasn't. It was One of MANY reasons for that war, one of which....and the most important in my opinion...was Saddam's support of terrorists. After 9/11 we could not allow this tyrant to continue to support our enemies while thumbing his nose at the entire world for the previous 13 years. As the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Phase II investigation report on pre-war Iraq Intelligence stated: Conclusion 10: Statements in the major speeches analyzed, as well additional statements, regarding... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406698/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:04:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404945/posts Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-releases-national-strategy-countering-biological-threats The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 09, 2009 President Obama Releases National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats Today, President Obama released the National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats. This Strategy outlines the President’s vision for addressing the challenges from proliferation of biological weapons or their use by terrorists. It highlights the beneficial nature of advances in the life sciences and their importance in combating infectious diseases of natural, accidental, and deliberate origin. It also outlines how the risks associated with misuse and potential consequences of a... Whitehouse.gov http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404945/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:59:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401309/posts HALABJA, Iraq — Six families nervously awaited the DNA tests on the young man who returned from Iran. They wondered: Could this be their son who was just an infant in 1988 and somehow lived through a deadly chemical attack by Saddam Hussein's regime? There was absolute silence as the judge announced the lab results. The man, who called himself Ali, was deemed to be the sole surviving child of 58-year-old Fatima Mohammed Salih, who had lost her husband and all her other six children in the poison gas clouds that covered the mostly Kurdish city of Halabja. Fox http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401309/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 02:38:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2396149/posts Do Dumbocrats really think that Saddam Hussein would stand by and allow Akhmadinejad to get WMD and not want them for himself? Iran and Iraq were the bitterest of enemies, remember. They were constantly at war. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2396149/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:02:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390463/posts Representatives from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia are scheduled to meet today in Brussels to discuss future steps to dissuade Iran from developing the capacity to build nuclear weapons. Our message to the world leaders: If you want peace, prepare for war. The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390463/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:38:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2383093/posts Atomic Alarmism Sarah Carlsruh, November 10, 2009 Struggling to decide between confrontation and engagement, the Obama administration is engaging in diplomatic talks with Iran, but has not yet ruled out force as an option. If the Obama administration were to believe John Mueller’s book, Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al Qaeda, they could abandon diplomatic engagement completely and rest easy. Mueller, who spoke at the Cato Institute on October 29th and is the Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies at Ohio State University, called his book a “cure for insomnia,” since it should ease late-night fears of... Accuracy in Academia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2383093/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:18:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379603/posts Exclusive: Watchdog fears Tehran has key component to put bombs in missiles The UN's nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian has learned. The very existence of the technology, known as a "two-point implosion" device, is officially secret in both the US and Britain, but according to previously unpublished documentation in a dossier compiled by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iranian scientists may have tested high-explosive components of the design. The development was today described by nuclear experts as "breathtaking" and has added urgency... Guardian.Uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379603/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 01:31:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375760/posts Seoul, Washington round out plans to handle N. Korean regime collapse: source SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and the U.S. have completed joint action plans to respond to a regime collapse and other internal emergency situations in North Korea, a ranking government source said Sunday. The so-called "Operational Plan (OPLAN) 5029," drawn after years of bilateral consultation, dictates respective military responses by Seoul and Washington to several types of emergency situation in the communist North -- a civil war, an outflow of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), the kidnapping of South Korean citizens, a mass influx of refugees... Yonhap News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375760/posts#comment Sun, 1 Nov 2009 10:35:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371985/posts If you want to witness a massacre on television, take at look at this debate on MSNBC’s Morning Joe between Joe Scarborough and Lawrence O’Donnell over Dick Cheney, Iraq, and weapons of mass destruction. Scarborough uses an avalanche of facts to bury O’Donnell’s contention that Dick Cheney lied about WMD and based the case for war on a “wild guess.” In addition to all the sources Scarborough cited and who claimed Saddam Hussein possessed WMD — including leading Democrats like Bill and Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, John Edwards, and more — you could add the intelligence agencies of... NRO on line, the corner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371985/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:16:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365901/posts Iran would not agree in multilateral talks this week to ship a portion of its low-enriched uranium stockpile to other countries for further refinement, but would instead seek to purchase more highly enriched material from abroad for use in a Tehran research reactor, state media quoted anonymous officials as saying (see GSN, Oct. 16). If Iran balks at the understanding, reached earlier this month in talks with the five permanent U.N. Security Council member nations and Germany, the nation could eliminate the possibility of a compromise with Western powers aimed at creating additional time for negotiations over its disputed nuclear... Nuclear Threat Initiative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365901/posts#comment Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:15:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357992/posts Security: After Iran admits building a second enrichment facility inside a mountain, the Pentagon shifts money from other programs to urgently fund the mother of all bunker-buster bombs. Why the need for speed? At the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh last month, President Obama announced, "The Islamic Republic of Iran has been building a covert uranium enrichment facility near Qom for several years." U.S. officials said they knew for some time that the facility existed. The announcement was made after U.S. officials learned Iran had told the International Atomic Energy Agency of Qom's existence. Our knowledge of the facility built in... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357992/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2009 00:40:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357991/posts Security: After Iran admits building a second enrichment facility inside a mountain, the Pentagon shifts money from other programs to urgently fund the mother of all bunker-buster bombs. Why the need for speed? At the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh last month, President Obama announced, "The Islamic Republic of Iran has been building a covert uranium enrichment facility near Qom for several years." U.S. officials said they knew for some time that the facility existed. The announcement was made after U.S. officials learned Iran had told the International Atomic Energy Agency of Qom's existence. Our knowledge of the facility built in... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357991/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2009 00:37:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307519/posts Defense: As the failure of engagement with Iran grows more apparent, the administration that has talked very softly may be getting the mother of all sticks ready. Guess we need high-tech Cold War weapons after all.Western intelligence sources have told London's Times that Iran has perfected the means to develop and detonate a nuclear bomb and is merely awaiting word from its supreme leader to produce its first one. Should the order be given, it would take just six months to enrich enough uranium and another six months to assemble the warhead. Time's up. Recently, and perhaps not coincidentally, Defense... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307519/posts#comment Tue, 4 Aug 2009 00:15:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357148/posts Ahwazi Organization: Iran is Planning to Attack the Gulf Countries; Iran is Producing Chemical Weapons and Burying the Waste in Ahwaz On October 5, 2009, Alarabiya.net posted an interview with an Arab Ahwazi man who was presented as a former undercover agent for the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). The man claimed that 40,000 well-trained operatives, mostly Shi'ites, are in the service of Iran in the ArabGulf states - 3,000 of them in Kuwait alone. He stated that the cells formed by these operatives were trained to collect intelligence, sabotage installations in the Gulf region, and assassinate senior officials. He... MEMRI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357148/posts#comment Wed, 7 Oct 2009 23:42:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2355745/posts North Korea’s armed forces are capable of carrying out 13 kinds of viral and bacterial attack, the South Korean Government said yesterday in one of the most detailed assessments of the dictatorship’s biological weapons arsenal. In a submission to the South Korean National Assembly, the Defence Minister also said that the North had 5,000 tonnes of chemical weapons, believed to include mustard gas, phosgene and sarin. Among its biological agents are cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, typhus, typhoid fever and dysentery. Despite the alarming assessment, Kim Tae Young also said that his country’s armed forces had the capacity pre-emptively to destroy... The Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2355745/posts#comment Tue, 6 Oct 2009 06:41:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349874/posts The history of warfare and the history of disease are unquestionably interwoven. Throughout the history of warfare, disease and non-battle injury have accounted for more deaths and loss of combat capability than from actual battle in war itself. The most striking example is the great influenza pandemic during World War I that killed 20 million people or more worldwide in 1918.1 Although this was a naturally occurring event, what if a country could create a biological agent that could yield the same catastrophic loss of life on the enemy? That, in essence, is the potential effect of applying genetic engineering2... 'The Gathering Biological Warfare Storm' http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349874/posts#comment Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:10:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2350590/posts A few days back it was written on this site that the United States should pull out conventional combat troops out of Afghanistan. I am working on the whys. And it has to deal with Israel, Iran the Missile Defense System in Europe. Russia through Putin and Obama, wittingly or unwittingly, are playing the U.S. to our demise. The conservatives who signed the letter to bolster troops in Afghanistan are playing into Russia's hand. It was then written on this site that Putin got Eastern Europe and the United States got a lousy washing machine. Russia admitted that it signed... It's a Kwazy Life http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2350590/posts#comment Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:35:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349247/posts IRAN TESTS MULTIPLE MISSILE LAUNCHER - STATE TV. Headline only at this time. BNO News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349247/posts#comment Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:44:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348363/posts Where to begin with the “surprise” announcement of a second, previously undisclosed “nuclear facility”? Some thoughts: (1) This is Iran’s answer to the Obama video peace offensive. This summer we kept quiet while thousands went into the streets of Tehran to protest brutality and a rigged election — just so that Obama’s much-heralded peace offensive, planned for October, could showcase his transnational diplomatic charisma. I think all that brilliance has just been preempted by the theocracy, which quite understandably concluded that Obama not only would not support democratic dissidents in the new “reset button” era, but was increasingly desperate, as... NRO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348363/posts#comment Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:22:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348319/posts BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Brazil's vice president says his country should develop nuclear weapons. Jose Alencar says "a nuclear weapon has great importance" to prevent attacks on Brazil because of its extensive borders and maritime holdings. Alencar tells Brazilian newspapers that Brazil doesn't have a program to develop nuclear weapons, but should. AP via Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348319/posts#comment Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:28:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347733/posts Libya's Moammar Gadhafi said Thursday, in a rare appearance before a U.S. audience, that he evolved from a firebrand revolutionary into a seasoned ruler over four decades in power, contributing to his decision six years ago to dismantle his country's weapons of mass destruction... Clad in a black suit and a transparent black robe, he fielded questions for an hour Thursday at the Council on Foreign Relations, a prestigious think tank. Under Gadhafi, Libya had long been a pariah state, sponsoring terrorist groups and trying to undermine pro-Western governments in Africa. The nation gradually emerged from its isolation in recent... Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347733/posts#comment Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:23:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347257/posts NEW YORK (CBS) - Najibullah Zazi, the Denver man believed to be the central figure in a terror plot against the New York City transit system, has officially been indicted on charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction against persons or property in the United States, CBS 2 has learned. According to the Department of Justice, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of New York returned a one-count indictment alleging that between Aug. 1, 2008 and Sept. 21, 2009, Zazi knowingly and intentionally conspired with others to use one or more weapons of mass destruction, specifically... CBS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347257/posts#comment Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:59:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346703/posts NEW YORK (CNN) – President Obama spoke Wednesday at the U.N. General Assembly as he tackles a range of thorny international issues with his counterparts. Obama said Iran and North Korea “must be held accountable” if they continue to ignore international nuclear weapons treaties. Iran recently reiterated its unwillingness to give up its nuclear program, which the United States and other Western nations fear is being used to develop nuclear weapons. Iran insists its program is strictly for civilian power. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice said she didn’t expect a direct meeting between Obama and Iran’s president, Mahmoud... CNN.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346703/posts#comment Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:13:03 GMT