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To: FairOpinion
Excellent, sorry I missed that.

The suits always seemed like evidence, to me. Our soldiers aren't routinely deployed with such protective gear, unless we believe they will encounter WMD.

It's simple, really.
73 posted on 12/14/2003 9:05:15 PM PST by Pan_Yans Wife ("Your joy is your sorrow unmasked." --- GIBRAN)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
People also keep ignoring the mustard gas and cyanide found in the Euphrates. Where do you think that came from?!

http://www.wsjclassroomedition.com/wsjtoday/war/03apr07_story2.html

WAR WITH IRAQ: APRIL 7, 2003

Marines Report Discovery Of Iraq Weapons Disposal

Cyanide, Mustard-Gas Agents Uncovered in Euphrates River

Marines raiding a Baath Party headquarters Sunday in Salman Pak, which United Nations inspectors said in 1997 was the scene of experiments with biological weapons, including anthrax, found what an interpreter described as a manual on how to fool U.N. inspectors. Friday, a Marine unit drawing drinking water from the Euphrates River near Nasiriyah said it found concentrations of cyanide and mustard-gas agents in the water, apparently dumped there by Iraqi forces that formerly held the city 200 miles south of the capital.

Dr. Richard Spertzel, a U.S. microbiologist who helped uncover Iraq's biological-weapons program in 1995, said that after the Gulf War Iraqi technicians dug pits, threw in biological and chemical warheads, and covered them with tarpaulins and sand. "If they've done the same thing it, could take months to find them. "

Ken Alibek, a microbiologist who was formerly deputy chief of the Soviet Union's biological-weapons program, noted that Iraqi records could show what countries may have aided weapons programs. "The U.S. must protect this material from being destroyed," he said.



89 posted on 12/14/2003 10:21:23 PM PST by FairOpinion
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