Posted on 07/01/2004 1:07:27 PM PDT by se99tp
source: Polish Press Agency
Polish Secretary of Defense Jerzy Szmajdzinski told about it US Secretary Rumsfeld during NATO summit in Istanbul. Sec Rumsfeld quoted him in radio interview late Wednesdaty - Pentagon informed Thursday . Official communique of Polish Ministry expected soon...
The wire dated July 7-th / 20.24 hours (Polish time)
Military Intelligence found chemical weapon in Iraq. There are several missiles containing chemical weapons - said Jerzy Szmajdzinski, Polish Secretary of Defence.
Secretary confirmed information given by Sec. Donald Rumsfeld during his radio interview. When asked why Poles got to know about from American Secretary he answered that "we wanted to wait until US Army will investigate the case and says what type of gas is in". According to Szmajdzinski there are certainly missiles with chemical weapon. He said that Polsih soldiers found weapons around two weeks ago.
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Official communique of Polish Ministry of Defense
Ministry of Defense is informing...
Warsaw - At the beginning of June soldiers of Polish Military Intelligence found two GRAD missiles, which contained suspiscious substance.
Later during special operations at the end of June the same team foudn several more GRAD missiles and other 82 mm missiles.
Amerciasn experts concluded that missiles contain cyclosarin (gas deadlier than sarin). It is probable that this is the same weapon which was used agains Kurds in Halabja.
Information was not given earlier due to the confirmation process.
This will make page 12 of the "Z" section of the NYTimes.
Here's the funny part: Saddam didn't send his fighter planes to Iran on purpose. His pilots mass-defected to Iran and the Iranians kept his planes. Saddam was furious. Unfortunately for Saddam, the pilots had planned it fairly well and many had already sent their families out of the country.
then they will blame bush for not takin action on wmd's....
I think their reasoning was, The US will bomb Iraq, the French would step in and stop the bombing. The inspectors would be let back in. And the standoff would continue. Then Iraq would refurbish the aircraft to be ready to fly again.
They didn't think we would take over Iraq and topple the gov't. They did not take GW Bush seriously.
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