Has Iraq Smuggled 2-3 Nuclear Devices into U.S. waiting detonation? Washington Says Yes

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[justme346]

The United States last week delivered a secret ultimatum to Baghdad, a warning not to use non-conventional weapons on any account in the coming conflict. DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s intelligence sources have learned that a secret high-level emissary entered Iraq under cover to put Baghdad on notice that if non-conventional weapons were wielded by Iraq, the US would not hesitate to level its cities with a nuclear bomb.

Washington acted after discovering that Iraq had smuggled two or three nuclear devices at least into the United States for detonation by sleeper cells planted by Iraqi intelligence.

The American ultimatum included a demand for accurate information forthwith on:

The location of these sleeper terrorist cells wherever they are planted, whether in the United States, Israel or anywhere else in the world – and the sites where the nuclear devices are hidden.

The whereabouts of terrorists and radiological weapons heading for the United States or any other targeted country.

The terrorist cells armed with orders to set off a biological weapon, especially one containing anthrax, smallpox or a chemical weapon such as nerve gas.

The US officials impressed on their Iraqi counterparts that any attempt to withhold even a smidgen of vital information would result in Washington making good on its threat.

US vice president Dick Cheney, alluding to this threat in an appearance on NBC TV, warned Iraq against deploying “a single weapons system”, when he really meant a single terrorist.

DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s sources report the United States took the unusual and politically risky course of dispatching a special envoy to Baghdad, where he could have been in harm’s way, on following intelligence information that came in from the joint headquarters of US and Russian special forces in Moscow. Since August 21, this command center has been overseeing a manhunt in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan for a squad of Iraqi agents.

The original presumption of intelligence officials at the headquarters was that the Iraqi teams were sent to buy enriched Uranium-235 to boost Iraq’s nuclear stockpile. But early last week, this evaluation was ditched in favor of another: that the Iraqis were sent to take possession of complete nuclear weapons systems already purchased by Baghdad.

Iraqi officials professed innocence to the American emissary, assuring him they had no intention of using any nuclear device as a terrorist or military weapon. Their stock of weapons of mass destruction, they said, was meant to protect Iraq from a non-conventional weapons attack by Israel or Iran.

Iraq admitted obliquely for the first time that it has the bomb. But when the US emissary brought up the nuclear manhunt now under way, his Iraqi interlocutors clammed up.

The White House, Pentagon and CIA no longer doubt that Iraq has joined the nuclear club. Nonetheless, the US administration continues to insist publicly that it has no idea if Baghdad has the bomb and refers to 1998 intelligence assessments that Saddam Hussein is six months away from building an atomic device.

US and Israeli intelligence believe Iraq has between seven and 12 atomic bombs, and at least 15 to 40 nuclear shells of various sizes. Iraq also has five to eight cannon capable of firing the nuclear-tipped shells to a distance of hundreds of miles.

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[The Vast Right Wing]

The special envoy was Scott Ritter.

[denydenydeny]

One word: DEBKA.

[chesty_puller]

There's another word, but I'd get banned.

[Timm]

Ah, DEBKA! Why do people continue posting that here? Why not start some threads on alien abductions or the hollow earth if we're going to keep putting DEBKA reports up here?

[Poohbah]

Why not start some threads on alien abductions or the hollow earth if we're going to keep putting DEBKA reports up here?

Saddam Hussein was abducted by aliens from inside the Hollow Earth. DEBKA sez so, it's gotta be true :o)

[Tijeras_Slim]

Saddam is a mahar?

[dighton]

DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s intelligence sources ...

[dead]

Debka later confirmed that Bat Boy has a liver condition that has caused him to balloon to 750 lbs, making it impossible for him to leave his cave.

Additionally, in the roles of his fat, one pilgrim has noticed the outline of the face of St. Pius. Lines snake for miles down Bat Boy's mountain, with the sick and infirmed seeking healing.

Mistress Futura has labeled this an end-vision of the coming apocalypse.

[metacognative]

I find this a little too much to believe. But even if it was true, it doesn't change what needs to be done. Bag the Big Bagdad Wolf!

[Centurion2000]

Washington acted after discovering that Iraq had smuggled two or three nuclear devices at least into the United States for detonation by sleeper cells planted by Iraqi intelligence.

Were this fact Iraq would ALREADY be the smoking land of craters and brimstone.

[LSUfan]

DEBKA = Worthless

[Doc Savage]

There is no "Ground Zero",......yet! These idiots in the media love to call the blasted foundation of the World Trade Centers, Ground Zero. It isn't a Ground Zero. That term is reserved for the ground area directly below the aerial detonation of a nuclear bomb, or the land detonation point of a nuclear device.

So New York is NOT Ground Zero. But there soon will be a Ground Zero in the United States, perhaps several, which will annihilate several major cities in the United States. The most likely scenario will be the land-based detonation of a "dirty" nuclear device, thereby rendering the affected city and surrounding land mass uninhabitable for thousands of years.

I can only hope that these inevitable tragedies will take the vast majority of politically-correct, bleeding heart Liberals who will bear the ultimate responsibility for the downfall of this once great nation. Let us hope that Tom "Neville Chamberlin" Daschwipe and Ground Zero are one and the same. If I have to die, I want to make damn sure that Traitor goes too!

[mvpel]

In order to "annihilate" a city, they'd have to set off a fusion bomb, not the simplistic Hiroshima-style uranium bombs that they are far more likely to have. And both Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still on the map.

[harpseal]

Without giving a scintilla of credence to the DEBKA report let us examine the plausibility of this situation. If Saddam had three buclear devises he would explode at least one as use at least one as an ace in the hole deterent. If he had three in the USA then he would be effectively holding three American cities hostage to his survival.

I for one doubt his ability to bide his time with such an advantage. Two targets would be almost certain NYC and DC

[ZeitgeistSurfer]

What happened to that "supergun" that Saddam was working on - you know the one that can lob a shell a few hundred miles. What does Mistress Debka-Futura have to say about it?

[dead]

A dirty bomb would certainly not render an entire city and surrounding land mass uninhabitable for thousands of years.

It would dirty up a few blocks, depending on the size of the conventional explosive and the wind.

It would still be cause to level a few cities in the mideast though.

[Redcloak]

Didn't DEBKA report that aliens were used to smuggle the bombs in? Or was it a chupacabra?

[john in missouri]

Could this report be true? For our sake and the world's, I hope it's just a bunch of debka.

[Billthedrill]

I'm thinking this would be a little like going bear-hunting with a willow switch. Using it is a really, really, really bad idea...