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DOES CNSNEWS.COM HAVE THE STORY OF THE YEAR?
National review ^ | October 4, 2004 | Jim Geraghty

Posted on 10/04/2004 10:08:32 AM PDT by CT CONSERVATIVE

CNS News is a nice little right-of-center web-based wire service operating in Alexandria, Virginia. They seem like pretty solid reporters, and not likely to bite on, say, memos that are supposed to be from an Air National Guard office from 1972 that were created on Microsoft Word.

So it's kind of surprising to see this report:

Iraqi intelligence documents, confiscated by U.S. forces and obtained by CNSNews.com, show numerous efforts by Saddam Hussein's regime to work with some of the world's most notorious terror organizations, including al Qaeda, to target Americans. They demonstrate that Saddam's government possessed mustard gas and anthrax, both considered weapons of mass destruction, in the summer of 2000, during the period in which United Nations weapons inspectors were not present in Iraq. And the papers show that Iraq trained dozens of terrorists inside its borders. One of the Iraqi memos contains an order from Saddam for his intelligence service to support terrorist attacks against Americans in Somalia. The memo was written nine months before U.S. Army Rangers were ambushed in Mogadishu by forces loyal to a warlord with alleged ties to al Qaeda.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2004election; alqaeda; alqaida; anthrax; antiamericanism; biologicalweapons; chemicalweapons; cnsnews; cnsnewscom; election2004; iraq; iraqwar; memos; mustardgas; nationalsecurity; octobersurprise; proterrorism; saddam; saddamhussein; saddamswmd; smokinggun; somalia; terroristgroups; terroroperations; un; unfailures; unitednations; waronterror; waronterrorism; wmd; wot
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE

Rush is all over it now....


81 posted on 10/04/2004 11:34:49 AM PDT by b4its2late (John John Kerry Edwards change positions more often than a Nevada prostitute!!!)
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To: b4its2late

I emailed him a few minutes ago


82 posted on 10/04/2004 11:37:22 AM PDT by tai-pan (if Clinton was the answer it must've been one stupid question)
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To: OKIEDOC

Rush is talking about this now.


83 posted on 10/04/2004 11:37:40 AM PDT by MamaLucci (Libs, want answers on 911? Ask Clinton why he met with Monica more than with his CIA director.)
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE

Rush Limbaugh is reading the news on his show right now (lengthy article).


84 posted on 10/04/2004 11:38:05 AM PDT by weegee (What's the provenance, Kenneth? Where did the forged SeeBS memo come from?)
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To: Artemis Webb

Rush is saying that they have already said that they do not have original documents, just copies, making forensic verification impossible.


85 posted on 10/04/2004 11:39:45 AM PDT by weegee (What's the provenance, Kenneth? Where did the forged SeeBS memo come from?)
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE

None of this new. The Mainstream Media has been ignoring this info for well over a year. Dont expect them to catch on now.


86 posted on 10/04/2004 11:40:12 AM PDT by chudogg (www.chudogg.blogspot.com)
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To: meyer

Curiosity only. When did Rove mention "a few surprises"...I missed it, unfortunately.


87 posted on 10/04/2004 11:41:48 AM PDT by Dewayne
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To: Dewayne
Curiosity only. When did Rove mention "a few surprises"...I missed it, unfortunately.

If I'm not mistaken, he said "we have a couple of surprises" to Sean Hannity in the last week or two. I heard it, but can't date it. I don't even remember if it was on TV or Hannity's radio show, since the TV often serves as background noise for me.

88 posted on 10/04/2004 11:51:41 AM PDT by meyer (Proud member of the Pajamarazzi!)
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To: meyer

Thanks....here's hoping.


89 posted on 10/04/2004 12:08:45 PM PDT by Dewayne
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To: GW and Twins Pawpaw
I surely hope you are correct Atoms would be better than tissue.:-)

Tougher to prove with DNA, however. Tissue samples give us DNA.

May I add that I hope the existing tissue samples are in great pain?

Shalom.

90 posted on 10/04/2004 12:18:55 PM PDT by ArGee (After 517, the abolition of man is complete)
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To: ArGee

You wrote:


May I add that I hope the existing tissue samples are in great pain?

You may, as long as it is qualified as being 'intractable'.:-)

Shalom to you too!


91 posted on 10/04/2004 12:27:43 PM PDT by GW and Twins Pawpaw (Sheepdog for Five [my grandkids are way more important than any liberal's feelings!])
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To: GottaLuvAkitas1

If I were them, I would definitel beef up security and get backups.


92 posted on 10/04/2004 12:28:31 PM PDT by litany_of_lies
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To: ProudFossil
Is this the October surprise?

If so, the timing is pretty terrible.

Why not release this stuf *last* Tuesday? Think a verifiable report on this topic woulda made last week's debate just a little different?

93 posted on 10/04/2004 12:32:25 PM PDT by LincolnLover (Vanities and Reposts--The Bane of an Admin Monitor's Existence!)
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To: bobd400

I agree with point 1 and 3,,,,,,,,,but not holding my breath on 2.............the MSM will do everything it can to KILL this story.


94 posted on 10/04/2004 12:35:47 PM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: CT CONSERVATIVE

Get your popcorn and pajamas ready, boys and girls!! The campaign is JUST beginning.

"October Surprises" released in the next few weeks, from multiple sources, will leave the sKerry campaign gasping for air.
It couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of SOB's!!

Defeating sKerry is more fun than a human being should be allowed to have!! :-)


95 posted on 10/04/2004 12:52:34 PM PDT by GeorgeW23225 (Liberals really aren*t bad people. It*s just that they know so much that simply ISN*T true!!)
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To: LincolnLover

last tue was not oct


96 posted on 10/04/2004 12:57:28 PM PDT by larryjohnson (USAF(Ret))
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To: Thumbellina

Thanks to your officer for his service.


97 posted on 10/04/2004 1:10:34 PM PDT by larryjohnson (USAF(Ret))
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To: outlawcam
We ought to treat the matter delicately until the documents have undergone rigorous scrutiny.


"These things take time. These things need to be treated deeellicately or you'll break the spell."

98 posted on 10/04/2004 1:19:48 PM PDT by Indie (Ignorance of the truth is no excuse for stupidity.)
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To: BobKrumm; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; BykrBayb; LakeLady; bridgemanusa; Darksheare; Dr Snide; ...

ping


99 posted on 10/04/2004 1:51:46 PM PDT by stockpirate (Kerry; supported by, financed by, trained by, guided by, revered by, in favor of, Communists.)
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To: spacejunkie2001

My experience is that transcription is immediate, as fast as CNS can type the word "transcription." So this is a little suspect.


100 posted on 10/04/2004 1:59:11 PM PDT by Vinomori
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