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[Tolik]

Kenneth Timmerman BUMP!

What We Knew…and Didn't Do
Posted by optimistically_conservative
On 04/17/2004 7:14:38 PM EDT with 13 comments
Reader's Digest ^ | April 13, 2004 | Kenneth Timmerman
In 1997-1998, I became aware of clearly observable warnings of hostile terrorist intentions against America, by Osama bin Laden. For over eighteen months -- as part of an investigation for Reader's Digest -- I had been learning from a variety of former U.S. intelligence officers and foreign sources about a vast, world wide network of Islamist radicals, who had emerged from the U.S.-backed war to drive the Soviet Union from Afghanistan. At their head was the shadowy Saudi renegade, Osama bin Laden, whom his followers referred to as the "Prince of Jihad." What made bin Laden unusual was his background....

Kenneth Timmerman: This Man Wants You Dead [1998 article about Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda]
Posted by Tolik
On 04/20/2004 11:17:11 AM EDT with 13 comments
Reader's Digest ^ | July 1998 | Kenneth Timmerman
In July 1998, Reader's Digest published Kenneth Timmerman's report, "This Man Wants You Dead." Three weeks later -- with more than 200 innocent civilians torn to bits by al-Qaeda bombs in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam -- bin Laden's face was plastered in newspapers around the world.  The notice appeared in an Arabic newspaper in London last February. "The ruling to kill Americans and their allies -- civilians and military is a duty for every Muslim. We -- with God's help -- call on every Muslim to kill the Americans." Islamic extremists make outrageous statements every day in the Arabic-language...

[not_apathetic_anymore]

bump for later read

[R. Scott]

Caches of "commercial and agricultural" chemicals don't match the expectation of "stockpiles" of chemical weapons. But, in fact, that is precisely what they are. "At a very minimum," Hanson tells Insight, "they were storing the precursors to restart a chemical-warfare program very quickly."

This can be a difficult to use find. Under my kitchen sink are the precursors to chemical agents. There are a lot of duel use chemicals, and unless they are in a useable munitions form they can easily be written off.

At Karbala, U.S. troops stumbled upon 55-gallon drums of pesticides at what appeared to be a very large "agricultural supply" area, Hanson says. Some of the drums were stored in a "camouflaged bunker complex" that was shown to reporters - with unpleasant results. "More than a dozen soldiers, a Knight-Ridder reporter, a CNN cameraman, and two Iraqi POWs came down with symptoms consistent with exposure to a nerve agent,"

Check the contents of a can of Raid.

Until active military munitions are found, tested positive and given wide access to by the reporters, it will still be reported that “No WMD have been found.

[MizSterious]

See also Blast Destroys Iraq Building, Injures GI (Baghdad area, WMD Search?). Be sure to read the Reuters report a little further down in the thread.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Since the RATmedia won't cover this Bush will call a news conference this summer to reveal all that has been found. Then watch the RATS squeek and squeal.

[pawdoggie]

The Bush Administration and the "ISG" in their mania to "get it right" and deliver incontrovertible evidence of WMD (both before and after the notorious African yellow cake affair) may have done themselves the ultimate disservice. Saddam acknowledged before the '91 Gulf War that he had "the binary weapon", while one of his generals spoke of using "bug spray" against the Iranians in the Iran-Iraq War. By their very nature, binary chemical weapons are composed of two otherwise inactive, dual-use agents which are only toxic when combined. To discredit the findings of alleged "pesticides" and other associated paraphernalia, to include illegal rockets and chemical artillery and mortar rounds, as the Administration and the ISG have done, has left them in a position of having to reestablish their credibility by proving beyond all doubt that anything they found or may find really is WMD.

[Lyford]

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[LouD]

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[L.N. Smithee]

I have been through promises of an indictment of Hillary Clinton in Whitewater, of an indictment of Bill Clinton in the Paula Jones case, of Slick losing his composure in the Grand Jury video, and of evidence being presented on the Senate floor proving that Clinton raped Juanita Broaddrick.

I will believe WMD's have been found when they announce that they have found them, and not a minute before.

[nothingnew]

Both senior administration officials spoke to Insight on condition that neither their name nor their agency be identified...

This kind of crap always taints the information for me, whether it's their side or ours doing it.

FMCDH

[RandallFlagg]

HAAA!!!!!!!

[stylin19a]

What is telling by the silence is, our congresscritters (except for a chosen few) are no longer talking about "No WMD's found". Why ?

[Coop]

Yet we still get the occasional goober on FR bloviating about "no evidence of WMDs." No weapons (missiles excepted) discovered yet, but no evidence? LOL

[Khurkris]

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[syriacus]

Nice article. Thanks for posting it.

[pctech]

If this was legit, surely it would have been out by now. My question is this, if this for real, could Bush and Co. be waiting until the "opportune moment" to bring this out? If it isn't for real, then where the h#ll are these stories coming from?

[Robert DeLong]

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[sanchmo]

^4L8R

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - read later

[spaceman spiff]

Have you considered that we may not be announcing the finding of WMDs because we haven't found them ALL. At least some are likely to be in the hands of the "Insurgents." Not making the announcement deters the bad guys from using them against us and the Iraqi population in general. If we "find" WMDs, they can use them. Imagine what a few chemical shells into Baghdad or the Green Zone would do. Or maybe a mosque to stir things up.