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Myers:U.S. Controls Terror Camp In Iraq
Washington Post ^ | March 30, 2003 | Matt Kelley, AP

Posted on 03/30/2003 8:32:37 PM PST by Lady In Blue

American forces are searching a terrorist compound in northeastern Iraq that was probably the site where militants made a biological toxin, traces of which were later found by police in London, the Pentagon's top general said Sunday.

U.S. and British forces now control the compound, which belongs to the group Ansar al-Islam, said Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, describing it as a site "where Ansar al-Islam and al-Qaida had been working on poisons."

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I searched but I didn't see this posted.
1 posted on 03/30/2003 8:32:38 PM PST by Lady In Blue
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To: Big Steve; deport; blackie; nickcarraway; Maeve; Siobhan
Terrorists made biological toxin at this camp.
2 posted on 03/30/2003 8:35:08 PM PST by Lady In Blue (Bush,Cheney,Rumsfeld,Rice 2004)
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To: Lady In Blue
More precisely, Kurdish terrorists made biological toxin at this camp.

This adds another flavor into Perle's "Just add water" mix.

3 posted on 03/30/2003 8:38:50 PM PST by DTA
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To: Lady In Blue
I searched but I didn't see this posted.

It may be because I don't think we're supposed to be posting from the Washington Post according to that law suit from a couple of years ago. Anyway, wouldn't it be possible to post the whole article instead of an excerpt for the sake of those not registered to read the Washington Post?

4 posted on 03/30/2003 8:39:19 PM PST by Mr. Mulliner ("If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful." --C.S. Lewis)
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To: Mr. Mulliner
I don't think this matters much..... I mean, we ARE going to find WMDs in the Baghdad area..... and that's what Blix couldn't find and our "excuse" for going in there.

Of course, the poison stuff was known while the UN was deliberating. Blix could have flown up there at any time. *s* the dolt!!
5 posted on 03/30/2003 8:43:51 PM PST by bart99
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To: Mr. Mulliner
It is permissible to post excerpted articles from the Washington Post.....

http://www.freerepublic.com/ .. check about 2/3rds down the page....
6 posted on 03/30/2003 8:44:08 PM PST by deport
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To: deport
OK, glad that is cleared up.

I had a second look and realized it was a simple thing so went ahead and signed in at the WP.
7 posted on 03/30/2003 8:47:24 PM PST by Mr. Mulliner ("If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful." --C.S. Lewis)
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To: DTA
Wrong. Al Ansar brigades were Arab.
8 posted on 03/30/2003 8:49:21 PM PST by WOSG (Liberate Iraq! God Bless our Troops!)
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To: Lady In Blue
BTTT.
9 posted on 03/30/2003 8:57:00 PM PST by thatdewd (Billboards for the rich, spraycans for the poor, and taglines for the rest.)
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To: Lady In Blue
Does Hans Blix have an excuse ready for this one?
10 posted on 03/30/2003 8:57:18 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: WOSG
No, I think the Al-Ansar group was at least in part Kurdish. What is important is that they were Islamists (like al-Qaida) and not Ba'athists or Kurdish partisans.
11 posted on 03/30/2003 8:59:22 PM PST by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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To: WOSG
"Al Ansar brigades were Arab."

Those that survived the attack, slipped into Iran, I've read.

12 posted on 03/30/2003 8:59:53 PM PST by blam
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To: Lady In Blue
We're smoking the terrorists out and killing 'em!

Let's Roll!
13 posted on 03/31/2003 9:23:22 AM PST by blackie
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To: WOSG
See this:

HALABJA, Iraq - U.S. specialists have discovered evidence that a Kurdish Islamic militant group that the Bush administration has linked to al-Qaida . was concocting chemical weapons in the mountains of northeastern Iraq, a U.S. military commander said Tuesday

Nuf said. Some of al ansar are "afgan arabs" but not all of them. Saga continues.

14 posted on 04/01/2003 9:15:44 PM PST by DTA
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