Posted on 08/18/2002 9:38:27 AM PDT by SkyPilot
CNN's LATE EDITION opened with never before seen captured video taken by agents of Osama Bin Laden that showed a chained up white dog being gassed with a nerve agent.
They reported this was the first time these tapes have ever been seen.
Discussion also on the Sunday Talk Thread.
I highly doubt they'll have any mention of it on their site or by their members.
Still, how does Bush have a connection to Saddam giving al Qaeda nerve gas? If anything, it seems to me this would strengthen the case to go after Saddam.
Not yet, but give it about 2 hours....I suppose. Hell, I refused to believe they had the Daniel Pearl video on the net until I saw that nightmare with my own eyes.
A journalist with the London Times found instructions for producing ricin, one of the most toxic biological agents on earth, in an abandoned al-Qaeda house in Kabul yesterday. The documents described the necessary doses for killing adults and children, the effects of the poison on a dying victim and the necessary equipment for working with the poison, such as wearing gloves and a face mask.
The journalist also discovered dummy bombs, propaganda papers, syringes, pills, other laboratory equipment and instructions for making explosives and detonation devices.
The house was looted after the Taliban and members of the al-Qaeda terrorist network fled Kabul earlier this week. The Times reported that two Arab doctors who worked in the house were beaten and killed as they tried to escape Monday night (Loyd/Fletcher, London Times, Nov. 16).
The Washington Post said a German man who had converted to Islam and an Arab man of unknown nationality who lived in an al-Qaeda house were either beaten to death by an anti-Taliban mob Tuesday or killed themselves before the mob could reach them. The Post reported that a house abandoned by al-Qaeda members—it was unclear whether the house was the same as the one where ricin plans were found—contained military equipment, including detonators, hand grenades, dynamite and chemical compounds, as well as instructions for making bombs and fake travel documents. Al-Qaeda members also left behind instructions for producing a “chemical poison” using sodium or potassium cyanide (William Branigin, Washington Post, Nov. 16).
Ahmed Ressam, a former al-Qaeda member arrested at the U.S. border in 1999, has told authorities his training at a camp in Afghanistan included instruction on placing cyanide gas near the air intake vents of buildings. An al-Qaeda instructor once put a dog in a box and poured cyanide and sulfuric acid in the box, and it took the dog about four minutes to die, Ressam told a court in July, saying, “We wanted to know what is the effect of the gas” (Dobbs/Behr, Washington Post, Nov. 16).
I think this is part of the "Build the case to go after Saddam" that some people keep whining about.
Since when has that stopped the media from trying to disparrage GWB for every foible that occurs?
The media, NYT specifically, is running with this "Reagan/Bush Knew" type story that Saddam had/used gas agent capabilities and Reagan/Bush did nothing to stop it.
Factual basis in my musings........not really. Just thinking outloud.
CNN have obtained some videos from Afghanistan and they managed to get them out.
I think there's goning to be a whole TV show in the coming days showing the tapes in full, called "Terror On Tape" or something.
Anyone got times?
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A preview will be on 10pm eastern tonight they said..
To include the U.S. researchers at Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas who also performed chemical weapons exposure tests on lab animals, including the use of mustard gas and other blister agents on dogs and monkeys? Don't bet on seeing the films and videotapes of those US experiments being run by the networks....
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