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Iraqi WMD
Apognosis - Iraq WMD Evidence ^ | 2005-11-27 | leebert

Posted on 11/27/2005 2:42:47 PM PST by leebert

Apognosis - Iraq WMD Evidence

"...How can anyone ignore the evidence cited by a senior counter-proliferation official that meetings did in fact occur between Niger officials and would-be buyers from Iraq, North Korea and three other countries, and that the uranium was to be mined from abandoned - and hence unregulated and unmonitored - uranium mines in Niger?"

"...The US Army bomb team that investigated the device said it looked like all the other conventional munitions rigged as roadside IEDs, it bore only the markings of the conventional artillery shells they had been handling on a routine basis. It bore no unique markings to indicate it was in fact a chemical weapon: In other words it was disguised to appear as a conventional artillery shell."

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chemicalweapons; duelferreport; hideandseek; hitchens; iraq; missiles; mustardgas; niger; northkorea; plame; sarin; wilson; wmd
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In my Iraqi WMD blog I list the accumulated evidence for an ongoing WMD effort during Saddam's regime.
1 posted on 11/27/2005 2:42:50 PM PST by leebert
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To: leebert

The most convincing objection to the Niger Uranium theory is based in simple logic. Iraq had a large amount of unused Uranium which had been left in the country when the UN weapons inspectors pulled out. Why negotiate to buy something they had plenty of?


2 posted on 11/27/2005 2:52:43 PM PST by Canard
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To: leebert

Got info on the Al Samoud 2 missle ?


3 posted on 11/27/2005 2:53:40 PM PST by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
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To: leebert

bookmark


4 posted on 11/27/2005 2:54:47 PM PST by AliVeritas (''I'd rather have Jihadis in front of me than Democrats behind me.'' Go GOP!)
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To: leebert

Now maybe you can convince the president, vice president, secretaries of state and defense, because they all say the intel was screwed up.


5 posted on 11/27/2005 3:01:21 PM PST by Huck (Yeah.)
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To: leebert
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,79283,00.html

List of Items Iraq Must Destroy Saturday, February 22, 2003

6 posted on 11/27/2005 3:02:01 PM PST by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
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To: Canard

Maybe the Iraq's were in Niger to by goats which they had plenty of.


7 posted on 11/27/2005 3:02:28 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: leebert

The Left would ignore conclusive proof of Saddam's possession of WMDs just as the OJ jury would have ignored a video tape of OJ hacking away.


8 posted on 11/27/2005 3:23:51 PM PST by luvbach1 (Near the belly of the beast in San Diego)
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To: leebert
I went to the posted website. It looks like it has good information. However, starting with "Niger's Uranium," some of the text seems to overlay existing text. Anyone else have this problem? If so, the web-page designer needs to work on the problem.
9 posted on 11/27/2005 3:31:58 PM PST by ChessExpert (Democrats: Sore/Losermen 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012)
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To: leebert
Thanks for the tip leebert, I ordered both dvds.
10 posted on 11/27/2005 3:43:35 PM PST by Randy Larsen (I BELIEVE CONGRESSMAN WELDON!!!)
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To: ChessExpert

Looks fine in Firefox.


11 posted on 11/27/2005 3:46:40 PM PST by the anti-liberal (Hey, Al Qaeda: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent)
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To: Canard

Maybe they didn't think they had enough....


12 posted on 11/27/2005 3:53:56 PM PST by GW and Twins Pawpaw (Sheepdog for Five [My grandkids are way more important than any lefty's feelings!])
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To: GW and Twins Pawpaw

Or possibly they wanted it to not be on the records that they had it and were working at refining it. The Uranium in country had already been tagged by the inspectors so if any turned up missing it would have been a major red flag.


13 posted on 11/27/2005 4:03:13 PM PST by Kadric
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To: Canard

Your posts of late are starting to smell a little like that ugly guy under the bridge...also known as a TROLL


14 posted on 11/27/2005 4:30:02 PM PST by dannyboy72 (How long will you hold onto the rope when Liberals pull us off the cliff?)
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To: ChessExpert

Its based on wiki format. Which browser are you using? Thanks.


15 posted on 11/27/2005 4:48:40 PM PST by leebert
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To: Huck

Which intel was screwed up? Feel free to cite me which officials are actually conceding which intelligence reports were wrong, why, and by what margin.

This isn't to deflect the question of bad intel, but there's good and bad intelligence, and the focus appears to be only on bad intel to the detriment of other compelling evidence.


16 posted on 11/27/2005 4:55:48 PM PST by leebert
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To: Canard

Other posters have pointed out that Iraq's existing stores of uranium were monitored, but you also have to consider that Saddam's regime was looking forward to a post-sanctions era where they would no longer be under an inspections regime and they could resume -as the Dueffler Report clearly states - their latent weapons programs. As Chris Hitchens has pointed out, we didn't know they were negotiating for no. Korean missiles capable of larger/longer-range payloads.

We can nit-pick some of the evidence but the salient point shouldn't get lost in nay-saying when confronted with a genocidal regime known for lying, deception and murder.

I do not understand how in the face of mounting evidence we should deny Tony Blair or George Bush the same benefit of the doubt that some seem to suggest Saddam should've received.


17 posted on 11/27/2005 5:03:42 PM PST by leebert
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To: Canard

But .. the Niger meeting with Iraq took place in the late 90's, and Wilson reported that Iraq didn't participate, when Niger was saying that Iraq did participate. Wilson was lying.

And since there was such a stockpile found in Iraq at Al Tuwaitha, I'd say Iraq was doing a lot of business with somebody .. if it was not Niger.


18 posted on 11/27/2005 5:08:37 PM PST by CyberAnt ( I believe Congressman Curt Weldon re Able Danger)
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To: Kadric

And there's no telling if they were working in concert with Pakistan's Dr. Nukes-r-Us Kahn and Libya's Col. Moammar Khaddafi.


19 posted on 11/27/2005 5:38:48 PM PST by leebert
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To: Parley Baer

75% of Niger's export trade is uranium.


20 posted on 11/27/2005 5:39:55 PM PST by leebert
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