from mutter's:
Nov. 22, 2004
By Bruce Kennedy
Jihad Unspun
JUS has learned that Resistance fighters took revenge for their fellow citizens of Fallujah early Sunday morning by hitting the American Al-Bakr base in Balad with 4 rockets carrying chemical warheads.
Sources inside the base confirmed the presence of a white substance after the explosions of the rockets which came at the time when a large contingency of American soldiers were preparing to leave for Mosul. Approximately 2500 American soldiers occupy this base, which plays a pivotal role in providing logistics and personnel support to American occupation forces in the northern, north eastern and north western zones of Iraq.
According to this inside source, 270 Americans were killed in the attack. Black Hawk and Chinook aircraft took over 3 hours to evacuate the dead and the wounded. The Americans have cordoned off the area with red tape and started to spray a liquid over the chemical substance to neutralize it. The specific chemical used is not yet known however the damage is said to have extended to surrounding trees, which were either burnt or wilted.
This attack came as a response to the American chemical attack on Fallujah a few days ago. At press time, there is not one word in mainstream press about this large scale attack. Curiously, a quick search on Google netted virtually no information at all on the Iraq war – a war that is taking American lives daily.
This report has not yet been independently verified and is considered preliminary at this point. We consider the source reliable and are therefore releasing this information publicly as we continue to verify its validity. If this report is proved to be correct, the stakes inside Iraq have just been significantly raised. (JUS)
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JUS' credability was discussed on another thread yesterday, and folks there didn't have that high of regard for it. This would be difficult to keep under wraps from embeds. Sounds like the bagdad bobish jihadi posts announcing how they routed the troops in fallujah.
chem warheads?!
Biochemical threat next terror wave
Michelle Wiese Bockmann
The Australian 23nov04
A TERRORISM expert has warned Australia of a new, global generation of Islamist terrorists "armed, trained financed and ideologicised" to use chemical and biological weapons.
In declaring that part of this new global terror wave would come out of Southeast Asia, Singapore-based Rohan Gunaratna said he found the Jemaah Islamiah group had come extremely close to developing "chem-bio" weapons last year, recounting his alarming analysis of a Jemaah Islamiah bio-terror training manual that was taken from a Philippines safe house in late 2003.
The manual gave incorrect manufacturing instructions and lacked safeguards, Dr Gunaratna told an emergency medicine conference in Adelaide yesterday.
Any JI members who had used the methods in the manual would have died or become sick, he said.
"But it is only a question of time that a group that has these intentions will have the capability to develop them," he said.
Dr Gunaratna, who heads the terror unit at Singapore's Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, said terror groups showed "repeated expressions of interest" in moving in the "biochem" direction.
"We are seeing a new generation of terrorists being trained in the use of chem-bio weapons," he said.
"We rarely saw this in the 1990s but today we are seeing increasingly this kind of training.
"Groups are being trained to use these agents," he added, but the "probability of attack is still low".
Terrorists had attemped in 2002, last year and this year to use "chem-bio" weapons and "this is the best indication of the next attacks".
"I believe they will try again next year," Dr Gunaratna said.
He has also analysed videotapes showing al-Qa'ida testing of cyanide gas to kill dogs in the Afghanistan desert, using crudely manufactured gas chambers.
And he found al-Qa'ida cells uncovered in Jordan this year and London last year were "quite close" to targeting sites using chemical or biological weapons.
A US specialist had recently told him that al-Qa'ida was on the verge of recruiting a biochemist to replace Malaysian biochemist Yazid Sufaat, arrested in 2002.
Dr Gunaratna also warned that a terrorism attack on Australia was "inevitable" as members of Jemaah Islamiah were currently training in the southern Philippines, and that Australian-based supporters, while "not operational", were providing financial support.
He said Australia, along with all "allies and friends" of the US, was a terrorism target.
The invasion of Iraq had increased the threat of global terrorism attacks, and raised support for about 30 radicalised Muslims groups, to which dwindling al-Qa'ida members imparted knowledge, he said.
Dr Gunaratna said that the al-Qa'ida membership had dropped to about 500 with about 3000-4000 of its members arrested, but it had trained 70,000 people from 1989 to 2001 in Afghanistan.
JI was believed to have about 5000 followers, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said in March.
Dr Gunaratna said there were 75 car bombs in Iraq last month because most of the terrorists there had been trained in this form of warfare in Afghanistan.
Currently, terrorists are in the "early stage of gaining operational experience (in chem-bio warfare) ... but if one group is successful, others will follow", he said