[dighton]

A second defector has reported that Iraq has constructed seven mobile germ laboratories, which have been disguised as milk lorries.

Baby-milk factory bump.

[Physicist]

A second defector has reported that Iraq has constructed seven mobile germ laboratories, which have been disguised as milk lorries.

They go to and from the "Baby Milk Plant", no doubt.

[gg188]

I am guessing that our satellites can locate, identify and pinpoint every milktruck in Iraq. Take everyone of them out w/ missle strikes and we're sure to get the offensive ones. Of course, the Iraqi's will be saying, "Got Milk?" for a while.

[Harp]

Such claims are expected to add momentum to America’s efforts to win support for military action against Iraq . . .

With this new knowledge, no doubt the French will be worried about all the innocent baby milk factories.

[Jewels1091]

No wonder things are heating up. Bet Bush is putting a plan together right now.

[TomGuy]

Inside the Ring - Big BLU Bunker Buster

Big BLU

The Pentagon is rushing to produce a new and bigger bunker-buster bomb for use against hardened targets, like some of the underground hide-outs used by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Pentagon sources tell us the new bomb is being developed for the Air Force by Northrop Grumman Corp. in California and is called Big BLU — for bomb live unit. The new bomb will be bigger and more powerful than the new BLU-118 thermobaric warhead dropped on caves in Afghanistan recently.

Big BLU, we are told, will be six times bigger than the F-15E-carried thermobaric bomb and will be packed with some 30,000 pounds of high explosive. It will be guided to targets by satellite and will sport a cobalt-alloy penetrating warhead that allows the bomb to dive up to 100 feet below the surface before detonating.

The bombs are so big that it will take a B-2 bomber to carry one of them, we are told. Three Big BLUs have been ordered by the Air Force on an urgent basis.

[Kerberos]

So, it looks like the evidence that our so-called allies are clamoring for is beginning to take form.

[Boyd]

'A DEFECTOR from Iraq '

Which PR firm planted this one?

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

I have a hard time believing that anybody privy to that kind of information in Saddam's regime would make it out of the country alive. Could be disinformation, perhaps.

[wretchard]

From a speculative perspective, Saddam would probably focus on biological and chemical weapons, rather than nuclear ones because of the lower level of infrastructure required to develop them. You don't need Oak Ridge-sized centrifuges to build a biological weapon. Hence, the milk truck idea.

But biological weapons have their own complications too. One is containment. US biohazard facilities have elaborate systems to process water and air and to decontaminate the researchers at the end of shift. Transporting deadly pathogens in milk trucks will give a traffic accident a whole new meaning. Preventing the escape or capture of research personnel is yet another problem.

Then there is the problem of weaponization, which is in many respects, the hardest part of deploying biological weapons. This requires testing facilities and manufacture that goes beyond a high-school lab level.

My guess is that the milk truck scenario is unlikely, but if it is true, Saddam is well and truly crazy.

[SmartBlonde]

But...but... this can't possibly be true. Scott Ritter has been on television at least once a week for the past few months, assuring us that Saddam is really no threat. He also assures us that it wasn't true that Saddam didn't allow him to do inspections; all that was 'misunderstood'.

Ritter makes me very nervous. His story has changed so many times it's like listening to a fairy tale. His comments fly in the face of all other available intelligence.

[xm177e2]

A second defector has reported that Iraq has constructed seven mobile germ laboratories, which have been disguised as milk lorries.

And the instant we blow these up, we'll be accused of denying milk to the starving Iraqi people...

[He Rides A White Horse]

Every time I hear how Saddam has 'agreed' to a new round of weapons inspectors, it kinda brings out a somewhat morbid laughter..........

......Iraq needs several divisions of Marines acting as 'weapons inspectors'; of course, neutralizing them immediately would all be part of the plan.

[lafroste]

Muhsen al-Haidai, a chargé d?affaires, and Abdul Kadir Hussein were given 12 days to leave the country after Swedish police were provided with evidence of their spying.

No one has caught this little gem. Who noticed that the iraqis were spying? Apparently not the Swedes. Sometimes the EU strikes me as a total basket case, good Lord, can't they even hold up their miniscule end in their own country?