Posted on 09/13/2002 10:39:52 AM PDT by justme346
The United States last week delivered a secret ultimatum to Baghdad, a warning not to use non-conventional weapons on any account in the coming conflict. DEBKA-Net-Weeklys intelligence sources have learned that a secret high-level emissary entered Iraq under cover to put Baghdad on notice that if non-conventional weapons were wielded by Iraq, the US would not hesitate to level its cities with a nuclear bomb. Washington acted after discovering that Iraq had smuggled two or three nuclear devices at least into the United States for detonation by sleeper cells planted by Iraqi intelligence. The American ultimatum included a demand for accurate information forthwith on: The location of these sleeper terrorist cells wherever they are planted, whether in the United States, Israel or anywhere else in the world and the sites where the nuclear devices are hidden. The whereabouts of terrorists and radiological weapons heading for the United States or any other targeted country. The terrorist cells armed with orders to set off a biological weapon, especially one containing anthrax, smallpox or a chemical weapon such as nerve gas. The US officials impressed on their Iraqi counterparts that any attempt to withhold even a smidgen of vital information would result in Washington making good on its threat. US vice president Dick Cheney, alluding to this threat in an appearance on NBC TV, warned Iraq against deploying a single weapons system, when he really meant a single terrorist. DEBKA-Net-Weeklys sources report the United States took the unusual and politically risky course of dispatching a special envoy to Baghdad, where he could have been in harms way, on following intelligence information that came in from the joint headquarters of US and Russian special forces in Moscow. Since August 21, this command center has been overseeing a manhunt in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan for a squad of Iraqi agents. The original presumption of intelligence officials at the headquarters was that the Iraqi teams were sent to buy enriched Uranium-235 to boost Iraqs nuclear stockpile. But early last week, this evaluation was ditched in favor of another: that the Iraqis were sent to take possession of complete nuclear weapons systems already purchased by Baghdad. Iraqi officials professed innocence to the American emissary, assuring him they had no intention of using any nuclear device as a terrorist or military weapon. Their stock of weapons of mass destruction, they said, was meant to protect Iraq from a non-conventional weapons attack by Israel or Iran. Iraq admitted obliquely for the first time that it has the bomb. But when the US emissary brought up the nuclear manhunt now under way, his Iraqi interlocutors clammed up. The White House, Pentagon and CIA no longer doubt that Iraq has joined the nuclear club. Nonetheless, the US administration continues to insist publicly that it has no idea if Baghdad has the bomb and refers to 1998 intelligence assessments that Saddam Hussein is six months away from building an atomic device. US and Israeli intelligence believe Iraq has between seven and 12 atomic bombs, and at least 15 to 40 nuclear shells of various sizes. Iraq also has five to eight cannon capable of firing the nuclear-tipped shells to a distance of hundreds of miles. Source InJesus |
With the idiots in the DC police, you know, the ones that can't find a dead body, anything can happen.
Good news. I guess I wasn't informed. Sounds like you are. My guess is that you don't get your G2 from Debka.
*NOTE*, however, that the only choices you get on that site are for *FUSION* (i.e. "hyrogen") bombs, *NOT* the much smaller *FISSION* (i.e. "atom") bombs that Iraq might possibly be able to build.
Absolutely no one is crediting Iraq with being anywhere near the ultra-high-tech level of being able to produce a hydrogen bomb.
Correspondingly, the smallest choice at the "mapablast" site represents explosions at *least* twenty times larger, more like 100 times larger, than anything that Saddam might be able to put together.
Anyone with 10 to 20 nuclear bombs doesn't need anthrax, smallpox, or vx. Besides, wasn't the Soviet Union rumored to once have had several man-portable "suitcase" nukes already deployed in several major cities back during the cold war?
We needed to deport all illegal Moslems and closely scrutinize every naturalized citizen and permanent resident from all the Moslem terrorist nations for links to radicalism. We needed to make our borders much harder to sneak across. We did neither of these things and thousands, perhaps millions, will die because we failed in this.
Sargeant Schultz had more control over Stalag 17 than the DC cops have over DC.
"Washington acted after discovering that Iraq had smuggled two or three nuclear devices at least into the United States for detonation by sleeper cells planted by Iraqi intelligence."
I'm adding this to my list of hilarious claims by Debka.
He was probably treated better than the 60 year old grannies who get the riot act for trying to get past airport security whith their nitting needles.
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