IRAQ: U.S. Analysts Link Iraq Labs to Germ Arms

The New York Times International ^ | May 21, 2003 | JUDITH MILLER and WILLIAM J. BROAD

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Looking good I think!

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[The Great Satan]

The paper called the trailers an "ingeniously simple, self-contained bioprocessing system," one official said.

Now this is an ingeniously simple, self-contained bioprocessing system:

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[Fred Mertz]

Is this why Hatfill is back in the news?

I saw some footage of an Army Major several weeks ago saying, "Yeah! We've got the smoking gun" upon discovery of one or several mobile chem labs.

[The Great Satan]

I guess I could live with a scenario where we come clean on the anthrax but use the Hatfill-FBI-cockup cover story to provide deniability for whenever Saddam eventually pops up his head. But I think it more likely they will play for an ambiguous ending, like an art-house movie. Ambiguity means you can play both sides of the fence, and isn't that the name of the game in politics?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I don't follow what you guys are talking about!

[WaterDragon]

Well, there are morons who so despise this administration they'll deny the analyses, regardless of the dangers to themselves that mindless opposition poses.

I really appreciate that THIS administration TRIES to keep this sort of thing reported as precisely and truthfully as possible. They are doing such an admirable job, too.

[MEG33]

SShhhh.Keep it under your hat.(The one made with shiny foil)

[D-fendr]

I guess I could try to become the world's greatest cynic; but I could never keep up with you.

[Fred Mertz]

I really appreciate that THIS administration TRIES to keep this sort of thing reported as precisely and truthfully as possible.

Please pull your head out of the water, Dragon.

[JustPiper]

Maybe this are the emails intercepted? The missing chems are what they are worried about enough to raise our alert?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

NO idea, I am out of loop and heading to bed!

[Allan]

Ping

[JustPiper]

Bump!

[BagCamAddict]

I'm glad the article answered my question, which was about the date of manufacture on the equipment. Even if they didn't actually make any bio weapons with these mobile labs, having them violated the UN sanctions. So this IS a smoking gun on yet another violation of the UN sanctions, whether or not we can prove they actually made weapons with these mobile labs.

It would be helpful if we could find Saddam and Sons, so that the people who are still afraid to talk will start coming forward with info on where the WMD are/were stored/moved/destroyed. I'm sure that anyone who is 'in-the-know' about the WMD is still keeping their heads down and their mouths shut until more of the Baathists and Saddam's cronies are taken out of the picture.

[Fledermaus]

Good story....BUT...it's from the NY Times.

I wouldn't believe the NY Times if they told me the sun comes up in the East.

[randita]

It would be helpful if we could find Saddam and Sons, so that the people who are still afraid to talk will start coming forward with info on where the WMD are/were stored/moved/destroyed.

Don't need Saddam and fellow thugs to tell us where they are. And that's good because they're dead.

The WMD were moved to the Beca'a Valley in southern Lebanon, it is strongly thought. Pre-war satellite pictures show large drums being loaded onto trucks and then the trucks being driven out of Iraq.

In the Beca'a Valley, the WMD are dangerously close to Israel and under the control of Hezbollah. I heard discussion of what can be done to neutralize the WMD. A direct assault is not possible, because of their virulence.

Traditional bombs will not work because a temp of 4000 deg. is necessaary to destroy anthrax, botulinim, etc. A possiblity now in the early stages of discussion is to hit the cache of WMD (once we are sure where it is) with a bunker buster and follow it up with a small nuclear warhead which would produce the heat necessary to destroy the germs. This, according to John Loftus, on WABC radio.