Posted on 02/15/2003 9:43:29 PM PST by Mark Felton
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| 15/02/2003 KurdishMedia.com - By Bryar Mariwani | ||
| London (KurdishMedia.com) 15 February 2003: An estimated two million people participated in the anti-war rally in the British capital, London, according to the organizers. The police said that the figure was 750,000. A significant number of Kurds participated in the rally to remind the peaceful protesting people of Saddam’s atrocities. Carrying banners and pictures of the Halabja massacre, the Kurds amazed the angry anti-war protesters. The banners were saying ’No to Dictatorship’, ’Remember Halabja’ and Victims of Saddam’s chemical weapons’. Speaking to KurdishMedia.com, Tarza Dilshad, a Kurdish participant said I came here to remind these people about what Saddam did to the Kurds. I am not against a war on Saddam, but at the same I am scared about the fate of my family in South Kurdistan. Saddam might attack Kurdistan with chemical weapons. Azad Ali, another Kurdish participant said some people just don’t understand the situation. Saddam is a danger to the whole world. Ask the Kurds and they will tell you about it. He used chemical weapons in the past and he might use them again at anytime. Saddam Hussein, the head of the Iraqi government, used chemical weapons against the Kurds in the 1980s. The Kurdish town of Halabja was bombed with Saddam’s chemical weapons in 1988 killing more than 5000 Kurds. The Iraqi government conducted a serious of genocide operations called Anfal against the Kurds in the 1980s, killing more than 182,000 innocent Kurds. Young Faili Kurds were used as lab-rats in Saddam’s chemical and biological testing laboratories in the 1980s during the Iraqi-Iranian war. Many people oppose a war on Saddam Hussein while they have never felt what it is like to be in Iraq. |
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(Btw, it looks like Tiger hasn't lost his roar. ....Michelson is toast tomorrow).
I can easily see the two playing in the same group (somewhere back in the pack) on the final day heading onto the back nine all even, and Phil choking his brains out. ....and I'd love to see it.
WorldNetDaily.com: "NEW EVIDENCE LINKS SADDAM, BIN LADEN" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Unit 999 of Iraqi intelligence has helped train both Arafat's shock troops and bin Laden's Islamists for suicide operations utilizing weapons of mass destruction. According to Bodansky's book, some of these terrorists have already "succeeded in infiltrating several Arab countries. They are provided with instructions, secret codes and advanced weapons." According to Israeli sources, the Iraqis permitted the terrorist trainees to test chemical weapons in southern Kurdistan.") (120902)
***News.TELEGRAPH.co.uk: "CHEMICAL WAR THREAT BY IRAQ'S 'TALIBAN'" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Mullah Mohammad Hasan is the new leader of Ansar Al-Islam, a radical Taliban-style mini-state in Northern Iraq where ricin and other chemical agents have been been tested as potential weapons. He has vowed to use his arsenal to fight America and its allies if a war is launched against Saddam Hussein. Ansar has also given shelter to Abu Musaab al-Zarqawi - the al-Qaeda quartermaster responsible for planning the terrorist group's attacks - in its camps, according to Kurdish officials in the area. The group has told recent visitors to its enclave that it holds stocks of the deadly chemical agents ricin, cyanide gas and aflatoxin.") (January 12, 2003)
stepping back in time...CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: "TALIBAN-STYLE GROUP GROWS IN IRAQ" (ARTICLE SNIPPETS: "HALABJA, NORTHERN IRAQ - A radical Islamist group - with possible links to Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein - is growing and threatening the stability of the Kurdish region in northern Iraq."..."Since, Ansar al-Islam has nearly doubled in size to 700, including Iraqis, Jordanians, Moroccans, Palestinians, and Afghans - a composition similar to the multinational Al Qaeda network. Villagers here claim it has ransacked and razed beauty salons, burned schools for girls, and murdered women in the streets for refusing to wear the burqa. It has seized a Taliban-style enclave of 4,000 civilians and several villages near the Iran border.") (March 15, 2002)
***BBC NEWS: "NEW IRAQ DOCUMENT FIND ALARMS UN" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The head of the United Nations atomic agency has voiced concern about documents apparently relating to nuclear technology which were found in an Iraqi scientist's home. The documents, numbering 3,000 pages, appear to focus on laser enrichment - a way to modify uranium for use in nuclear weapons - and were taken from the home of physicist Faleh Hassan on Thursday.") (011803)
WASHINGTON TIMES.com - Opinion Editorial: "OUT OF THE VIAL" (OPINION EDITORIAL SNIPPET: "Two recent revelations argue that they also appear to be acting appropriately. The first was a CIA intelligence assessment, which adduced that four nations - Russia, North Korea, Iraq and France - almost certainly possess secret stocks of the smallpox virus. A second, unrelated disclosure revealed that Osama bin Laden dedicated money and personnel resources to procuring stocks of numerous biological and chemical agents, including smallpox.") (111402)
***ALBAWABA.com: "THE IRAQI WOMAN BUSH WANTS TO LAY HIS HANDS ON" (ARTICLE NOTE: Dr. Rihab Tahat is known as "Dr. Germ.") (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In Dr. Germ's highly secret laboratories, Taha and her team of some 100 Iraqi scientists worked immensely to weaponize the most lethal viruses and bacteria known to man. According to United Nations estimates, Taha created 8400 liters of anthrax"..."grew 19,000 liters of botulinum"..."She also cultivated 2000 liters of aflatoxin"..."These experiments may have never come to light if it were not for the defection of General Hussein Kamal, son-in-law of Saddam Hussein and a weapons of mass destruction expert. In 1995, Kamal defected from Iraq to Jordan where he told the world about Dr. Germ, thus making him the first to expose Taha's work and the killer diseases that Iraq holds in reserve."..."The original UN weapons inspectors tried to find out where Iraq's biological weapons were and destroy them, but failed. Eventually, UN inspectors found out that Dr. Germ was the lover and wife of Lieutenant General Amer Rashid, the Iraqi official whose job was to work with the UN inspectors. It is now believed Rashid warned his wife of possible raids, thus giving her enough time to get rid of any evidence. Until recently, Rashid served as the oil minister in Saddam Hussein's government."(January 14, 2003)
WASHINGTON TIMES.com (AP): "IRAQ TAKES DELIVERY OF POWDER USED IN CHEMICAL ARMS" (ARTICLES SNIPPETS: "Iraqi scientists know how to make chemical weapons that can penetrate military protective clothing, and Iraq imported up to 25 metric tons last month of a powder that is a crucial ingredient to such "dusty" weapons. Iraq told the United Nations the powder was destined for a pharmaceutical company."..."The powder, sold under the brand name Aerosil...") (111802)
TIMES ONLINE.co.uk: "SADDAM PAYS GADDAFI $3 BILLION TO GIVE HIS FAMILY SAFE HAVEN IN LIBYA" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Word of Saddam's deal with the Libyan leader has emerged from diplomatic sources in Tripoli following a visit to the Libyan capital on September 8 by General Ali Hasan al-Majid, a cousin and trusted member of Saddam's clan. General al-Majid is known by the Kurds of northern Iraq as "Chemical Ali" because he was in charge of the Iraqi forces which launched a chemical weapons attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988. He was also initially the "Governor" of Kuwait after Iraq's invasion of the Gulf state in August 1990, and is now one of the Baath Party regional command leaders. He is believed to have travelled to Tripoli to deliver a personal missive from Saddam to the Libyan leader, confirming the arrangements for his family.") (111602)
FOX NEWS.com: "IRAQ STOCKPILING GAS ANTIDOTE" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The fate of 31,600 chemical munitions, 550 mustard gas bombs and 4,000 tons of chemical precursors remain unknown, according to Congressional Research Services. In fact, the primary remaining chemical weapons questions center on the VX nerve agent, which atropine can be used to counter. By 1995, UNSCOM uncovered enough evidence to force Iraq to admit to producing about 4 tons of VX, but UNSCOM thought the country had imported enough material to actually produce 200 tons of VX, according to CRS.") (111202)
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