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Libyan rebels fear Gadhafi is preparing mustard gas
The Washington Times ^ | Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Posted on 05/04/2011 8:42:09 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

In this Thursday, April 21, 2011, photo, a Libyan rebel on horseback holds his weapon up during a march on behalf of prisoners of war and the missing in Benghazi, Libya. U.S. Sen. John McCain, one of the strongest proponents in Congress of the American military intervention in Libya, said Friday, April 22, 2011, that Libyan rebels fighting Moammar Gadhafi’s troops are his heroes.

Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s troops in and around the rebel-held western Libyan city of Misrata have been issued gas masks, a sign that the regime may be preparing to use chemical weapons, rebels told The Washington Times on Wednesday.

The regime is thought to have 9 tons of poisonous mustard gas at a secret desert location near Col. Gadhafi’s hometown, Sirte, multiple sources in Libya said.

In New York, a special prosecutor for the International Criminal Court appeared before the U.N. Security Council to describe what he called “evidence” of “widespread and systematic” attacks on civilians by Col. Gadhafi’s forces.

Rebels received what they called reliable eyewitness accounts from Misrata residents who reported seeing gas masks distributed to Col. Gadhafi’s forces, said Mohamed, a spokesman in Misrata who asked that his last name be withheld.

“We have alerted the town to that fact and what Gadhafi could be up to,” Mohamed said. “We don’t have gas masks. We don’t know how to deal with this, but we will defend our city with our lives.”

Over the past week, pro-Gadhafi forces have retreated to the town of Zliten, situated to Misrata’s west. The troops, which suffered heavy losses under a barrage of NATO airstrikes and rebel fire, are now being commanded by one of Col. Gadhafi’s sons, Al-Mutasim Gadhafi.

“Al-Mutasim is just as brutal as his father and quite capable of using chemical weapons,” said Moham

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gaddafi; libya; mustardgas; nato; noflyzone; obamaswar

1 posted on 05/04/2011 8:42:14 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
We are being fed a steady diet of bullshit the same way we were when NATO was dismantling Serbia for the benefit of the muslim narco-terrorists in Kosovo.

This thing is about Soros wanting to control that $5T which Libya represents

George Soros and Bork Obunga are trying to perpetrate a bank robbery in broad daylight and using American military assets to do it.

2 posted on 05/04/2011 8:48:22 PM PDT by wendy1946
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To: MinorityRepublican

Are Graham and McCain going to make sure that the al-Qaeda supplemented Libyan rebel fighters get US-made gas masks?


3 posted on 05/04/2011 8:48:59 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all......)
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4 posted on 05/04/2011 8:52:17 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: MinorityRepublican
Man, Libya must be predominately Amish to be so violent.
5 posted on 05/04/2011 8:52:37 PM PDT by Porterville (Methink'st thou art a general offence and every man should beat thee.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Even cats were killed for sport, according to rebels.

Now, by god, they've gone TOO FAR!!

6 posted on 05/04/2011 8:54:19 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: SERKIT
Are Graham and McCain going to make sure that the al-Qaeda supplemented Libyan rebel fighters get US-made gas masks?

Sounds like that's what the Al Qaeda backed rebels are hinting at.

7 posted on 05/04/2011 8:54:29 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: MinorityRepublican

“The regime is thought to have 9 tons of poisonous mustard gas at a secret desert location”

Oh right, he has WMD, where have I heard this before? lol


8 posted on 05/04/2011 8:58:12 PM PDT by DBrow
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“Now, by god, they’ve gone TOO FAR!! “

KITTEN JUGGLING???


9 posted on 05/04/2011 8:59:49 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: MinorityRepublican

mustard gas, you mean chlorine? My grandfather was poisoned by that in WWI or the World War. If I were Gadhafi, I would do the same if I were invaded by NATO. We/They have no right to be in that country.


10 posted on 05/04/2011 9:01:02 PM PDT by Coleus (Adult Stem Cells Work, there is NO Need to Harvest Babies for Their Body Parts!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Hey Dumbass, The underfolding stock can't be unfolded with a drum on there, and without the stock unfolded you cant aim that 16 lb pistol.


11 posted on 05/04/2011 9:02:27 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1 .00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: Coleus

‘mustard gas, you mean chlorine?”

Mustard and chlorine are very different. Mustard is actually not a gas at all, but an oily liquid.

Very nasty and deadly, though.


12 posted on 05/04/2011 9:10:13 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: mylife

That’s why the war would had been over by now if NATO didn’t step in to prevent the Loyalists from crushing the Rebels.


13 posted on 05/04/2011 9:29:01 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

The “raping girls and Viagra” story didn’t sell, so now they’re going for “mustard gas”. It’s only a matter of time before they claim he used a nuclear weapon on them.


14 posted on 05/05/2011 12:45:21 AM PDT by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: mylife

Have you seen them at work? Aiming’s not a big part of their technique.


15 posted on 05/05/2011 12:47:34 AM PDT by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: MinorityRepublican
What a crock of+BS, every-time that butt wipe McCain opens his mouth, he makes all those that refused to vote for his sorry ass proud of their decision.
16 posted on 05/05/2011 2:13:31 AM PDT by org.whodat
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To: mylife

No and that fat little bastard will not last long in a firefight either, too much to miss.


17 posted on 05/05/2011 2:16:27 AM PDT by org.whodat
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To: ArmstedFragg

Bingo, the probably are rehearsing the bogus doctor already.


18 posted on 05/05/2011 2:18:02 AM PDT by org.whodat
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To: MinorityRepublican

Looks like the Viagra-induced rape stories didn’t work. Next will be that Kaddafi is developing or buying nukes.


19 posted on 05/05/2011 2:53:05 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: ArmstedFragg

Didn’t see your post until after I posted...


20 posted on 05/05/2011 2:55:06 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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