Posted on 04/30/2005 3:49:24 PM PDT by wagglebee
Terrorists dispatched by al-Qaida ringleader Abu Musab al Zarqawi attacked Iraq Survey Group chief Charles Duelfer and killed two of his bodyguards, Duelfer tells U.K.'s Independent newspaper.
"A car bomb tried to get me and my follow car," Duelfer revealed Thursday. "Two of my guards were killed and one was badly wounded."
"My hearing's not been right since," the top weapons searcher added.
In an addendum to his report on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction that was released this week, Duelfer notes:
"The Iraq Survey Group lost two more brave individuals in a suicide car bomb attack. SFC Clinton Wisdom and SPC Don Clary were killed, and SPC Nathan Gray was seriously wounded while providing security for a convoy transporting ISG members to Baghdad."
"Their actions to fend off the attacking vehicle allowed others to survive the explosion – including the DCI’s Special Advisor and his deputy," he added.
Duelfer cited the attack as the key reason why he had to suspend his weapons search prematurely, saying that the "ISG developed an investigation plan that may be pursued when the security situation improves."
News that Zarqawi had targeted Duelfer fueled speculation that the top terrorist feared the ISG group might yet uncover evidence that Iraq had WMDs, since Duelfer's findings to date have only bolstered claims that the U.S. was wrong to conclude that Saddam had stockpiles of unconventional weapons.
Did Zarqawi have access to info about Iraq's WMD program?
I doubt he had any information prior to the invasion; however, I'm sure that he's been given some information in the past two years -- if nothing else, I think it's very possible that he has been told specific areas (even if it is just a house or two) that need to be protected at all costs.
Good. I am glad to hear that I am not the only one who thinks that not all the WMD material/systems scampered-off to Syria. Who knows what remains buried in a tunnel or unknown bunker somewhere in the cites, towns, or deserts of Iraq.
Iraq is huge, and most of it is a desert. With GPS all Saddam's agents would have needed to do was pick some random spot in the desert and dig holes, they would have been secure in the knowledge that there was no way that searchers would randomly find all of them. (Hell, that's how I would have done it, it seems like the most obvious thing to do.)
The easiest way to hide 12 years of weapons building is to bury if you happen reside in a big-arsed sandbox. The Iranians are reported to have literally underground weapons centres; why not the same scenario for Iraq?
The Manhatten Project was able to maintain absolute secrecy for years to the extent that the Truman didn't even know anything about it until FDR died, and that was all done without Saddam's ever-present threats of the worst tortures imaginable.
We knew that he was working with chemical and bio weapons with ansar al-islam in the north well in advance of the war and training terrorists in their use in afghanistan before that. He also was in charge of the huge bomb/chemical weapons plot in jordan to destroy the U.S. embassy, jordanian security and the Israeli crossing. The convicted plotters confessed that the chemicals(some of it nerve gas)came from iraq via syria. They also said zarqawi was the leader.
They know where the weapons are. Problem is what happens when you find them?
Think about this. Let's say we find the weapons tomorrow. We will all laugh at the Rats and say "see, we told you so." What will the Rats say?
They would say, "but how do we know we have found them all? If we didn't attack Iraq we would know that the weapons were there. Now that we did, they could be scattered anywhere."
The NY Times and the MSM will put above the fold, "Bush's ignorance of Iraqi WMD endangers world" Believe me when I say, Kerry will not say, "See I knew it all the time." Him and the rest of the left wing will condemn Bush and the media will eat it up.
Come on. We aren't that stupid, despite what the liberals say. We know the weapons are buried in the Bekaa Valley as do the Syrians, Israelis and the Russians. Syria left Lebanon quickly because they knew we could pressure them with this knowledge.
It is safer to leave them there and not say anything(takes it of the table as a Rat talking point in 2008)then to say we found them and have the Rats panic the world with their scare tactics. And they would do it to score political points. No one needs to hear it because all we need is for Zarquawi to come out after this and say, "Yup, Al Queada managed to get there hands on some of it and we are just deciding where to use it."
Trailers by the hundreds left Iraq in the weeks leading up to the war. We know where they went and what was in them.
Think about it.
I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Abu Musab al Zarqawi is on the UN payroll...
Thanks for the info.
Plus, some Canadian journos visited Dr. Taha ("Dr. Germ") in her offices in February '03, right before the war, and did quite a bit of videotaping around her offices.
After the war they returned to her offices -- about May or June IIRC -- and found all the file cabinets gone. Her too, of course.
She was caught later and has resolutely dummied up about where all her materials and papers went.
Of course, the MSM aren't worried about the implications of that.
Any links for that? Some good info to have available for unbelievers.
Hope that helps.
Remember people with Masters and PhD think they are smarter than everyone, but it usually takes a high school drop out to stump them.
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