Posted on 06/24/2006 11:17:55 AM PDT by Wiz
Saddam was very, very close to getting from under the the UN sanctions. That would give Usama a new home and it would likely be in the Kurd area, so I can imagine Saddam gassing those he missed the first time.
Could not agree more !
As it was, he was able to build 52 Palaces (I think) during the sanction period. He complained that he needed the sanctions lifted "for the children". I imagine each had/has a tunnel. I'd love to see a map as to how they were positioned
If you ever see such a map let me know would love to see it.
Is this simply sloppy journalism, or are we missing something? What can be said about the others? Newer? Older? Foreign? French?
I agree. But, then again, this is the GOP:
Should be fun - tell him Stallone says "How ya doin'".
First of all, with the Dims being intellectually bankrupt, we have evolved to the point where the press tells them what to say.
But the only reason that makes sense to me for the Bush administration willingly taking a beating is that they WANT to appear weak. If Iraq is flypaper for international Islamist terrorism as even now Victor Davis Hansen allows, then appearing weak should encourage terarorists to flock to Iraq to get killed and leave to us their laptops and cell phones. Bush is a poker player and he is getting the enemy to invest in a losing hand. The "enemy" is evidently the Islamists, the MSM, and the radical left.
Interesting. I wonder if they did know what they had? Did they think it was just regular weapons? Do sarin filled shells look different?
Oh, mercy, she's lovely. You need to start a thread so everyone can demand photos of her. :)
To: Bob HynemanFrom http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/04/26/jordan.terror/
April 26, 2004 - Jordanian authorities said Monday they have broken up an alleged al Qaeda plot that would have unleashed a deadly cloud of chemicals in the heart of Jordan's capital, Amman....
In a series of raids, the Jordanians said, they seized 20 tons of chemicals and numerous explosives.
Other news stories at the time said the 20 tons (40,000 pounds) of chemicals were mostly Sarin and VX nerve agent. These chemical weapons were brought to Jordan by al Qaeda from Syria. But Syria doesn't have the technology to make VX. Iraq had a history of making VX, though.
There were other news stories at the time with more details than the CNN story. But the media didn't seem very interested and never followed up on where these terrorists managed to find 40,000 pounds of chemical weapons. I guess they thought these guys ran down to the local "chemical weapons-R-Us" store and got them there.
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Sarin-filled munitions in Iraq worry U.S.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-05-17-sarin_x.htm
Deadly Nerve Agent Sarin Is Found in Roadside Bomb
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33082-2004May17.html
Around 1972, the Russians were supplying Arabic countries with chemical munitions like passing out candy. Syria was one of the countries getting it.
This stuff is dangerous. Shells from WWI are still killing French farmers.
No it was all Russian then. When EOD went over to Egypt to help clear the Suez canal in 74, they were taken and shown the Egyptain stocks. Egypt got rid of theirs.
There are reports that recently France was supplying bi-nary technology to Iraq. This is very new for them.
It seems like remember reading several articles back in the 1970s that were about a Russian presence, maybe a port, in Yemen or South Yemen. Whatever the case, the U.S. was concerned about a spreading Russian influence in the region, much like Angola.
These shells all look the same.
No there are some differences in them.
Thanks for posting this. I had Grand Kids last week and got just a little of this while being Grampa Taxi Driver.
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