UN Weapons Inspector Bill Tierney weighs in [drops bomb, on Hannity & Colmes]!

Fox News Channel ^ | 1/27/03 | Hannity & Colmes

[4Liberty]

Former UN weapons inspector Bill Tierney was interviewed by Mr. Colmes a few minutes ago. Colmes shows him a clip of IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei stating that, to date, information obtained shows no evidence of nuclear weapons development in Iraq: "To conclude, we have to date found no evidence that Iraq has revived its nuclear weapon program since the elimination of the program in the 1990s." Colmes cuts back to Tierney and says: "Do you agree with that assessment?" Tierney says: "No." Colmes: "Well, do you know something that he doesn't?" Tierney then says, "YES." Everyone on the HC set went nuts, - asking "What do you know?! Will you tell us what information you have!?" Tierney said "Yes" that he would tell them; and that he would "make the information known at the proper time." Hannity jumps in and says, "Well, we expect to have you back on Hannity & Colmes VERY soon!"

[Abar]

I believe your assessments are correct.

[MHGinTN]

Looking at the timeline of the chinagate, Loral, and commerce department bomshells coming to light, it appears the explanation is not so hard to discover. Talk about wagging dogs!

[lawgirl]

Isn't GW the master?? He is going to let his "allied enemies" (france and the gang) hang themselves with their own rope. He went to the UN out of respect in the first place, and they have pitched a bitch and backstabbed us from the beginning growing LOUDER AND LOUDER AND LOUDER--while he has kept quiet and had class- and now he is going to drop the bomb on THEM and make them look like complete and total asses. I can't WAIT!!! GO W GO!

[whadizit]

He said the same thing last week on Sean's radio show. Sounds intriging but I wonder why he says he cannot speak any further about it at this time. Makes me wonder if info. is credible.

[lawgirl]

"There are some things the world is better off not knowing." - Dick Cheney

Dick is right and I have a feeling that's why every President's hair turns grey in office. The burden of such knowledge must be a hard one to carry.

[scott7278]

The problem with the "smoking gun defense" is the idiocy of those who use the phrase. To have a "smoking gun" is to have a gun that has already fired a bullet. France, Germany, Russia, China and the Democrats want a "smoking gun." I've got news for you: If the nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons in Iraq are the guns, a "smoking gun" is, well, I hate to even think of such a thing!

Saddam has the weapons, and it's our duty to fire first. He is already in material breach, and has been for the last 11 years. Our intelligence knows far more than we do, and that is why we must act, even on what we as the public know. We cannot allow any of our allies, or our cities, to reach 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit in less than a second -- we, the sane people of America, do not want a smoking gun.

We care not about politics as conservatives, but preserving humanity. It is not about the 2004 elections, but about the continuance of freedom. Shame on our communist-sympathisers who try to turn this into a political issue! It is a human issue, one that was fought during World War I and World War II and that we are facing again today.

The liberals moaned because we "couldn't see 9/11 coming," and yet we know, without a doubt, Saddam's intentions are:

1) The destruction of Israel
2) Expansionism
3) The destruction of America

Liberals moan with a smoking gun (9/11), or without a smoking gun. It's time for all Americans to stand up against the forces of liberalism and say "SHUT UP ALREADY!"

We face another Hitler, one who cannot be bargained with or reasoned with. He will not stop until his priorities are realized, and our way of life is weakened or ceased. We cannot make the mistake of waiting too long before his madness spreads. As the second verse of the Star-Spangled banner says,

O thus be it ever,
when free men shall stand
between their loved homes and the wars desolation.

Blest with vict'ry and peace,
may the heav'n-rescued land
praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserved us a nation.

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just;
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust!"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

[MHGinTN]

If you missed it, Scott, the following shows you're right on the money, guy :

Dems plan to undermine America to beat Bush
CapitolHillBlue ^ | January 6, 2003 | By DOUG THOMPSON

Democrats plan to undermine public confidence in President George W. Bush by challenging his credibility and raising doubts about America, sources within the party tell Capitol Hill Blue.

A multi-pronged attack against Republicans and the President will focus not only on economic issues, but question American values, raise doubts about how this country is viewed by other nations and question the patriotism of Bush and his party.

The extensive campaign, developed by senior Democratic consultants and party leaders, was launched last week with attacks on the Bush economic plan by Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Richard Gephardt.

In coming weeks, Democratic elected officials will question the President’s intentions on the pending war with Iraq. Writers and broadcasters friendly to the Democratic cause have already been provided talking points suggesting the war is about oil, not terrorism. “The talking points were developed before the end of last year and sent out to operatives and friendly media,” one Democratic consultant confided. “No Democratic member of Congress will question the President’s patriotism openly but we will use the media and other surrogates to raise doubts.”

Capitol Hill Blue obtained a copy of the talking points when the Democratic National Committee sent them to a news outlet recently acquired by CHB’s parent company. The talking points outline a strategy to raise public doubts of the President’s real intentions, including:
--Saying the war is about oil and will be fought to benefit oil companies that have long supported Bush and the Republican party;
--Claiming the Bush administration has “manufactured” evidence against Saddam Hussein and used that evidence to encourage Britain and other allies to join the American fight against Iraq;
--Suggesting a wartime economy is the only way the administration can revive the country’s lagging economic situation.

“It is clear that the current approval ratings of the administration are tied directly to strong American feelings toward traditional values,” the talking points say. “To counter this, doubt must be raised as to America’s true position within the world community and the true intent of the Bush administration in waging war.”

Some Democrats admit privately they are uneasy with the party strategy to undermine American values in an attempt to get Bush.

“My boss doesn’t want anything to do with it,” one senior Senate aide told Capitol Hill Blue on Monday. “You don’t undermine this country to win elections.” Others, however, are willing to try anything to put the White House and Congress back under Democratic control. “The real war isn’t in Iraq,” one Democratic consultant said. “It’s right here at home, at the ballot box in 2004.”

Among the other points Democrats hope to make in the coming weeks:

--Both President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are controlled by oil and defense industry special interest groups.
--The war on terrorism is a failure because Osama bin Laden is still at large.
--America is unprepared for another terrorist attack because of White House preoccupation with Iraq.
--War will increase the country’s economic woes.
--Bush will be forced to raise taxes to finance the war.

“It’s time to take the battle to the people and make them understand just how dangerous George W. Bush’s policies are to the future of America,” the talking points conclude.

Democratic sources say the talking points were developed by Democratic Chairman Terry McAuliffe, former Clinton campaign strategist James Carville, Senate Majority Leader Daschle and former House Democratic Leader Gephardt.

“This is a classic, Jim Carville, scorched earth campaign,” crows one DNC staffer. “Take no prisoners. That’s how you win elections.” Democratic party spokesmen would not return phone calls seeking comment on this report.
© Copyright 2003 Capitol Hill Blue

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[Sal]

...all the stuff that has been said about Clinton, but I'm starting wonder about this too. I'm beginning to think that maybe the Germans were somehow involved in the WTC attack too.

It goes back before that. Remember that Louis Freeh went to Europe, including Germany, to set up better anti-terrorist intelligence coordination between us and our allies. That was early in the Clintons' reign.

Remember louis, janet, and the billary were all convinced any terrorist threat came not from Islamofascists from the ME, but from white, angry males who were devoted to the Constitution and usually religious.

Remember that Andreas Strassmeir came from Germany, allegedly to spy on domestic US white supremecist groups. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (London Telegraph) has indicated that Andi the German was an agent provocateur in the OKC sting-gone-bad bombing. This is backed up by Carol Howe's testimony as an informant (sorry, working from memory I'm not sure if she was BATF or FBI) that Andi was giving military training to the Nazis at Elohim City and that he lead a recon group to pick a federal building target to be bombed...

FR archives are jammed with information on all this with verifiable facts. What's more difficult to verify with certainty is the connections between all these dots.

IOW we can know that the FBI and a German intelligence man were monitoring a white supremecist group with ties to McVeigh. We also know from Jayna Davis that there were Iraqi nationals involved in the OKC bombing. It's probably pretty safe to say that the Clintons were aware of an FBI operation (one hopes it was intended as a sting) in OKC.

What we can't KNOW (at least not yet) is whether Clinton was merely an opportunist in the OKC bombing or something much worse. Was there a sting that went bad and Clinton saw a chance to revive his dying presidency by smothering evidence of Iraqi complicity and headlining the evil, right-wing, religious extremist, militia type, government-hating, angry white male as the enemy? He has ADMITTED that this turned his presidency around.

It's a huge leap for most people to even contemplate the possibility that he (or some of his "people") saw that same opportunity before the "sting" went down and DECIDED to make it go bad... This is certainly not proved, but I personally believe he and his "people" to be so diabolical that they are capable of this at least. Once you even begin to suspect that possibility, then you might be suspicious of later complicities, too.

And BTW Andi the German wasn't just any random intel guy. He's the son of Gunther Strassmeir who was at one time the #3 man in Helmut Kohl's government. Now for all I know he was as freaked out by what happened at OKC as we were. He can't exactly talk about it, can he? But whether as a dupe or a main character, he WAS involved. And through him, so was Germany.

[Lion's Cub]

If so, it puts us in a bind as to how to deal with post-Saddam Iraq.

We have to get rid of Hussein and his sons; but we could well be in a bind post-Saddam, anyway. While I'm sure there are some Iraqis who want a democratic, western style government, I'm not holding my breath until one evolves. I think all the odds are against that.

BTW, I suspect that the ship the Russians sent to the Gulf to "protect Russian interests" is probably serving as eyes and ears for Hussein. Let's hope we have some way of jamming their communications once the war starts.

[kcvl]

Iraq 'preparing to use chemical weapons'

Staff and agencies
Friday January 24, 2003

Iraqi documents obtained by the BBC appear to suggest that the country's president, Saddam Hussein, is preparing to use chemical weapons against western troops in the event of war, it was reported today.
The handwritten notes state that elite units of the Iraqi military have been issued with new chemical warfare suits and supplies of the drug atropine, which is used to counter the effects of nerve gas.

The Radio 4 Today programme reported that the papers had been passed to the BBC by the Iraqi National Coalition (INC), an opposition group which claims to have received them during secret meetings with serving members of Baghdad's military.

Today reported that the documents were brought out of Iraq within the past month and have been verified by three different experts. The papers suggest that the chemical suits and anti-nerve gas drugs were smuggled into Iraq from neighbouring countries. Details of methods for attacking ships in the Gulf region with unmanned submarines are also included in the paperwork.

The documents indicate that the new chemical suits and atropine, which protect against the nerve gases sarin and VX, have been issued to the Republican Guard and Special Republican Guard, President Saddam's most loyal and feared military units.

The secretary-general of the INC, Tawfik al-Yassiri, is a former brigadier general in the Iraqi army, and claims that his organisation has extensive contacts within Saddam's military.

He told the Today programme: "We received the documents from inside Iraq, passed on by people who left Iraq.

"We have checked the information in other ways. We have members of our organisation in most of the camps and cities in Iraq, from soldiers to generals."

Toby Dodge, an Iraq specialist from Warwick University who looked at the documents for the programme, said: "The documents that you have supplied me seem to be genuine ... If you look at Iraqi troop deployments, these groups would be the recipients of all that Saddam had, in training and modern weapons and in chemical and biological weapons protection apparatus."

Bill Tierney, a former UN weapons inspector, told Today: "The key point is that the Republican Guard have been issued this new equipment. During inspections, I have seen that their standard decontamination equipment is 60s Soviet model and not very good at all.

"If both these two units have new equipment, it would indicate that they are prepared to use chemical weapons. The Iraqis' standard chemical weapon is mustard gas, but they were keen on developing VX. The fact that they have imported atropine is an indicator that they are willing to use VX."

A former CIA station chief in northern Iraq, Bob Bear, said that if the opposition was receiving information from elite military units, it suggested Saddam was in danger of mutiny among those closest to him.

He told the programme: "The Special Republican Guard is controlled by Saddam's family. This means that they really want Saddam to go. If this information is from the Special Republican Guard, then maybe Saddam is closer to the end than we expect."


http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:Py3KSws7kuEJ:www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,881449,00.html+Bill+Tierney,+un+inspector&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[RightOnline]

"But not as interesting as listening to or watching Colin Powell. Powell knows something too. It's obvious."

After watching the Q&A session during his recent appearance in Switzerland...........I have to agree with you. Something's up.

[kcvl]

Elite Iraqi troops issued with new chemical warfare suits: BBC

LONDON - Elite Iraqi troops have been issued with new chemical warfare suits, the BBC reported on Friday, suggesting that Baghdad may be preparing to use chemical weapons against Western troops in the event of war.


http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:Na_4D-aForoC:www.khaleejtimes.co.ae/middleeast.htm+Bill+Tierney,+un+inspector&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[George W. Bush]

I don't think this inspector is credible. He's angling to write books and become a network national-security contributor.

This is mostly a career move.

Anyone want to bet whether he has an agent to promote his career? A forthcoming book, the mention of whose title will bolster his appearance fees as a name-brand television expert?

There's something about the way he made the claim and then evaded any specific mention that made me think that he doesn't know anything at all. Well, except "Give me the money."

[ko_kyi]

Let's denounce our imperialistic ways, beat our swords into ploughshares, and redistribute all our income; then we will all live in peace together, with free college and free healthcare and free housing. Free Mumia!

Hilarious! I want to make that into a bumper sticker just to see how many people take it seriously.

[CPL BAUM]

Tierney's name came up yesterday (Monday, Jan. 27th, 2003) in an article by Gordon Thomas relating to the defection of one of Saddam's bodyguards - see:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/830459/posts

Thomas makes a number of blatant mistakes in his article (e.g., the Israeli election being held on Monday vs. Tuesday and a "Russian Mirage" vs. a "French Mirage") - but Tierney has captured my attention because of his past and current connections...Just the type of person you would expect the Administration to use for leaking tantilizing clues as to the severity of the situation.

Bush is holding his official offer of proof close to the vest until the time is ripe for sending in the bombers. Were he to offer proof of WMDs - and the inspectors come-a-knocking, there is no possibility that Saddam would invite them in. The military action would then be forced earlier than desired - or worse: Saddam would use one or more of his WMDs to bring the crisis to a head on his terms.

[Grampa Dave]

Butthead Colmes wouldn't admit that Iraq had a nuclear weapon if it went off 12 miles away from him and he saw the mushroom cloud and the blast effect heading his way.

Butthead Colmes is like all of the Lunatic Libs, they would have their Uncle Soddomite destroy America to weaken President Bush!

[PolishProud]

Tierney is guaranteeing that he will have a return engagement and H & C are creating ratings. Its all hype.

[Howlin]

Thank you......I thought I had lost my mind!

[ottersnot]

Interesting,
What I'm surprised no one is talking about is Tierney's
accusation that the French inspectors cannot be trusted.
He told of a situation where he saw a French inspector
trying to whisper the location of an upcoming inspection
to Iraqis, and claimed to have stopped the French inspector
in that case. Nevertheless, he is convinced that if the
French were given a list of 'targets' of the UN inspectors,
that they would spill the beans immediately to Iraq.
He also told of an incident where a french Image analyst
was rifling thru a desk that had sensitive info that he
had not right to be looking thru.
Very interesting. The French of course are only interested
in Peace.

[finnman69]

This same gay said the UN report on nuclear programs was "spun" to amke Iraq look innocent.