http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/wmds/ en-us Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:04:26 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054135/posts A former American overseer of Iraqi prisons says several dozen inmates who were members of Saddam Hussein's military and intelligence forces boasted of helping transport weapons of mass destruction to Syria and Lebanon in the three months prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Don Bordenkircher – who served two years as national director of prison and jail operations in Iraq– told WND that about 40 prisoners he spoke with "boasted of being involved in the transport of WMD warheads to Syria. A smaller number of prisoners, he said, claimed "they knew the locations of the missile hulls buried in Iraq."... WorldThreats.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054135/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:04:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048681/posts U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Iran on Monday that it faced more sanctions if it defied a two-week deadline to agree to curb its nuclear program. Rice said Iran was stalling and must give a "serious answer" within the deadline set by six world powers which offered trade and technical incentives if Tehran halts its uranium enrichment. The West fears Iran wants to build a nuclear bomb. "We are in the strongest possible position to demonstrate that if Iran does not act then it is time to go back to that (sanctions) track," Rice said, reuteurs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048681/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:04:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041598/posts <p>The media have been telling us for years that Saddam had no WMD, so "Bush's War": was based on a "lie." And those who believed Saddam did have WMD or WMD programs were delusional or worse.</p> <p>And multiple devices that could be used in a nuclear weapon.</p> American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041598/posts#comment Sun, 6 Jul 2008 22:59:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039525/posts US has means to verify North Korea statement -Rice (Adds amount of plutonium, other details) By Susan Cornwell KYOTO, Japan, June 26 (Reuters) - The United States believes it has the means to verify North Korea's estimate of its nuclear programmes, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday. North Korea was expected to declare between 30-50 kg (66-110 lb) of plutonium in the document, given to the Chinese government on Thursday, a senior U.S. administration official said separately, but added that "our estimates are greater". Verification, which meant calculating and resolving differences in estimates, could take "months and... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039525/posts#comment Wed, 2 Jul 2008 01:59:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035502/posts From: http://news.trendaz.com/index.shtml?show=news&newsid=1230980&lang=EN N. Korea invites media to nuclear plant blast 24.06.08 11:19 North Korea is to blow up a key part of its controversial Yongbyon nuclear reactor on Friday. The destruction of the plant's cooling tower is part of an agreement with the United States aimed at denuclearizing the Korean peninsula in exchange for loosening some restrictions on the highly secretive Communist country, reported CNN. The North Korean government has invited news organizations, including CNN, to witness the event. Earlier this year, Pyongyang agreed to disable its nuclear reactor and provide a full accounting of its plutonium stockpile, "acknowledge" concerns... TrendNews (Azerbaidjan) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035502/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:01:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019577/posts The government ordered the destruction of documents on an alleged international nuclear smuggling network involving three Swiss engineers, it has been confirmed. The head of a parliamentary control committee said the material was shredded last November. The father and sons – Friedrich, Marco and Urs Tinner - are suspected of helping to supply parts for Libya's nuclear weapons programme between 2001 and 2003 through a trafficking ring run by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's atom bomb. Reports say the three worked as undercover agents for the United States intelligence service. There is widespread media speculation that Washington asked... Swissinfo.ch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019577/posts#comment Thu, 22 May 2008 09:20:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000079/posts An upcoming joint US-Israel report on the September 6 IAF strike on a Syrian facility will claim that former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein transferred weapons of mass destruction to the country, Channel 2 stated Monday. Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000079/posts#comment Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:33:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998775/posts The Arab-Israeli region of the Middle East is filled with rumors of war. That is about as unusual as the rising of the sun, so normally it would not be worth mentioning. But like the proverbial broken clock that is right twice a day, such rumors occasionally will be true. In this case, we don’t know that they are true, and certainly it’s not the rumors that are driving us. But other things — minor and readily explicable individually — have drawn our attention to the possibility that something is happening. SNIP Rumors now are swirling that the Israelis are... Stratfor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998775/posts#comment Wed, 9 Apr 2008 02:04:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/1958415/posts Why has the statement that WMDS weren't found in Iraq now accepted as a truth? Especially in light of so much physical evidence, it looks as though the democratic Party and all to the left of them have convinced the world along with some Republicans that WMDS were never found. Looks like they took a move out of Joseph Goebbels playbook Wmd's were found in Iraq, I will give a few examples. 2003- UN Inspectors found 11 empty chemical warheads in excellent condition prior to the invasion. They were illegal and supposed to be destroyed (http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/01/16/sproject.irq.wrap/index.html) USA Today- Marines Reported... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/1958415/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:51:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1932310/posts In their own words. Video: http://www.bercasio.com/movies/dems-wmd-before-iraq.wmv Bercasio.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1932310/posts#comment Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:55:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928305/posts According to foreign reports, Israel destroyed a nuclear weapons installation in Syria in September. Never has a larger story been pushed under the rug by so many so quickly. What are we to make of this? Over the weekend former federal prosecutor and the head of the non-governmental International Intelligence Summit, John Loftus, released a report on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program. His report was based on a private study of captured Iraqi documents. These were the unread Arabic language documents that U.S. forces seized, but had not managed to translate after overthrowing Saddam Hussein in 2003. After a... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928305/posts#comment Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:49:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1901108/posts July 13-16: The 329th Chemical Platoon worked in conjunction with Marines from Multi-National Force-West and Soldiers from Multi-National Division-Center to secure approxomately 40,000 gallons of nitric acid that was found in a cache in Fallujah, Iraq, for disposal. The 329th Chemical Platoon is support reserve unit for Task Force Phantom, Multi-National Corps-Iraq. HQ is Winter Park, Florida. (U.S. Army/Spc. Fernando Gonzalez) NorthShoreJournal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1901108/posts#comment Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:01:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899118/posts Proof of cooperation between Iran and Syria in the proliferation and development of weapons of mass destruction was brought to light Monday in Jane's Defence Weekly, which reported that dozens of Iranian engineers and 15 Syrian officers were killed in a July 23 accident in Syria. According to the report, cited by Channel 10, the joint Syrian-Iranian team was attempting to mount a chemical warhead on a Scud missile when the explosion occurred, spreading lethal chemical agents, including sarin nerve gas. Reports of the accident were circulated at the time; however, no details were released by the Syrian government, and... JPost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899118/posts#comment Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:30:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1892552/posts The secret’s out: on August 24th, 2007, UN weapons inspectors found 6 to 8 vials of chemical weapons sitting in an office at the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) headquarters in NYC. They found the vials when archiving files due to the fact that UNMOVIC is closing down its mission. They placed the vials in a sealed package and put them in a safe located in a secured room. Subsequently, on August 29, 2007, UNMOVIC employees discovered the inventory list which listed the content of the vials. The vials contained the chemical phosgene, which according to the... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1892552/posts#comment Fri, 7 Sep 2007 14:01:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889071/posts UN Inspectors Find Chemical in UN Office Thursday, August 30, 2007 UNITED NATIONS - U.N. weapons inspectors discovered potentially hazardous chemical agents in their office near U.N. headquarters that were probably taken from Iraq's main chemical weapons facility 11 years ago, officials said Thursday. snip UNMOVIC has 1,400 linear feet of files and it took until Wednesday to find the inventory the number matched which indicated that the material was from Iraq's main chemical weapons facility at Muthana, near Samarra. http://home.peoplepc.com/psp/newsstory.asp?cat=TopStories&id=20070830/46d640c0_3ca6_1552620070830482500886 People PC.com & AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889071/posts#comment Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:05:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1888926/posts <p>ABC reported on their website blog about 20 min ago that United Nations weapons inspectors discovered six to eight vials of a dangerous nerve gas, phosgene, as they were cleaning out offices at a U.N. building in New York this morning, federal authorities tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com. The federal authorities said the office, in a U.N. building near headquarters, was being evacuated and the White House had been notified at 10 a.m. New York police and fire officials said federal authorities had not notified them of any problem at the U.N. building, as of 11 a.m. A U.N. spokesperson said a statement would be issued shortly.</p> ABC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1888926/posts#comment Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:26:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1888927/posts Nerve gas found at UN. ABCNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1888927/posts#comment Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:26:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1871799/posts It's clearly necessary to begin thinking about what form deterrence will take against future terrorist attacks on the U.S. At least 5 such attacks have been prevented at the operational stage by Bush administration policies over the last six years. What is needed is more serious consideration of the value of policies that deter such attacks. This is likely to become a more pressing concern, as America's ability to interrupt such attacks, if a Democrat becomes President, will be severely eroded. The Democrats are profoundly indifferent to national security, and have even managed to convince themselves that terrorism is some... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1871799/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:32:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1855533/posts BAGHDAD — Saddam Hussein's cousin and two other former regime officials were convicted Sunday of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to hang for the brutal crackdown that killed up to 180,000 Kurdish civilians and guerrillas two decades ago. Two other defendants were sentenced to life in prison for their roles in the 1987-1988 crackdown, known as "Operation Anfal." A sixth defendant was acquitted for lack of evidence. Death sentences are automatically appealed. The most notorious defendant was Saddam's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali" for ordering the use of mustard gas and nerve agents... FoxNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1855533/posts#comment Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:59:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1854808/posts What exactly was moved out of Iraq? Two weeks before the war started, Hans Blix presented a report called, Unresolved Disarmament Issues. For those who don’t trust or believe the Bush Administration’s claims about WMD, this report is a much better description of the alleged threat that Saddam’s Regime posed. After the war, the Iraq Survey Group scoured the country looking to answer the Unresolved Disarmament Issues and to assess the threat of WMD posed by Saddam’s regime. Combined, the before and after reports are a little under 1200 pages. The difference between the two-that is to say the Remaining... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1854808/posts#comment Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:01:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1854438/posts Saddam’s “Special Weapons” went by air to Syria, Belarus, and possibly Russia and Libya as well. They went by ground to Syria, and they went by sea to points unreported. The plan was called “Sarindar” (“Emergency Exit”), and wasn’t much different in general strategic terms from the American flight from Saigon, South Vietnam. Just as US embassy officials shredded and burned documents in Saigon, and again in Tehran, Kabul, and a dozen other fallen nations, the Russians and others did what they could to move, hide, and/or destroy their sensitive documents, equipment that they’d provided to Saddam’s Regime, and allegedly... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1854438/posts#comment Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:29:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1853195/posts These are the "birth pangs" of a "new Middle East," said Condi Rice last summer, as Israel pounded Lebanon. Unfortunately, the new Middle East may make us all pray for the return of the old. Hamas is today engaged in savage street-fighting with Fatah for control of Gaza. If Hamas prevails, it could convert this Palestinian enclave into a terrorist base camp between Israel and Egypt. In northern Lebanon, Islamic jihadists are battling the army for control of a Palestinian refugee camp. Scores are dead. On Wednesday, a seventh parliamentarian was assassinated with his son in a Beirut car bomb... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1853195/posts#comment Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:39:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1851979/posts U.S. and British officials are circulating a proposal at the U.N. Security Council to end the U.N. inspectors' search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The proposal has already been the subject of staff meetings and officials have told The New York Times that permanent members of the Security Council seem ready to go along with the proposal to "terminate immediately the mandates" of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission. RightBias News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1851979/posts#comment Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:00:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1847369/posts WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States froze the assets Friday of four Iranian companies, alleging they are involved in Iran's proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The Treasury Department named the companies as Pars Tarash (aka Pars Trash Company), Farayand Technique, Fajr Industries Group, and Mizan Machine Manufacturing Group. The action was taken under an executive order aimed at freezing the assets of proliferators of WMDs and their supporters, the department said in a statement. The Treasury is barring all transactions between the companies and any US person and freezes any assets the companies may have under US jurisdiction. "So... AFP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1847369/posts#comment Sat, 9 Jun 2007 02:40:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1839111/posts American Bar Association Address American Bar Association Address by Hans Blix Hans Blix, Weapon of Mass Destruction Commission Chairman, was a luncheon speaker at the annual spring meeting of the American Bar Association Section of International Law. His topics included weapons of mass destruction, the Bush administration, and Iraq. 5/4/2007: WASHINGTON, DC: 47 min. C-SPAN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1839111/posts#comment Thu, 24 May 2007 16:38:27 GMT