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CNN TV: Allies May Have Found Chemical Weapons at Terrorist Camp
CNN (on air) ^ | 04/01/2003 | TonyInOhio

Posted on 04/01/2003 6:11:17 AM PST by TonyInOhio

CNN TV has reported this morning that Allied forces "may have found chemical weapons at Ansar al Islam camp in Northern Iraq".

The Agonist weblog comments on hearing the same:

Allied forces may have found chemical weapons at a camp of the radical Islamist group, Ansar al Islam, in northern Iraq, reported CNN on April 1.

National Review Online has a similar tease:

ANSLAR AL ISLAM & WMD [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
CNN On Air is reporting suspected chemcial/bioweapon evidence found at the camp seized over the weekend.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaedaandiraq; ansaralislam; chemicalweapons; illegalweapons; iraq; war
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To: The Other Harry
There's a difference, I'd say, between criminals concocting methedrine in an illegal hidden lab (which our gov't DOES prosecute) and a military group creating and conducting chemical warfare weapons and plans. This gov't would shut that down in a heartbeat.

Any real gov't cannot claim ignorance of such activity within its own borders for very long.

21 posted on 04/01/2003 6:37:27 AM PST by peeve23
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To: AntiGuv
Now, I have no particular view on whether they actually collaborated with Saddam, but this 'evidence' would not violate the 1991 ceasefire agreement which is at issue here.

It's not about "ceasefire agreeements." It's about WMDs in the hands of terrorists.

If WMDs are found inside of Iraqs' borders, they're Hussein's responsibility.

You seem to have a unique role on these threads. That role always seems to involve exculpating Saddam, in some way.

Why do you feel the need to do that? Do you feel sorry for him?

22 posted on 04/01/2003 6:39:09 AM PST by sinkspur
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To: AntiGuv
Don't let the facts get in your way.
23 posted on 04/01/2003 6:41:56 AM PST by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorisim by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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To: The Other Harry
Like, maybe Saddam knew nothing about it??? Now that is a stretch.
24 posted on 04/01/2003 6:43:55 AM PST by cynicom
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To: smith288
They (leftists) need to see Saddam pouring VX into missile warheads and placing Anthrax into envelopes to be convinced.

They will only need to see deaths from these and then they will cheer.

25 posted on 04/01/2003 6:45:35 AM PST by cinFLA
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To: sinkspur
Would appear we have some Saddam apologists on this thread. Of course, they could be democrat/socialist moles that take their orders and talking points from anti-American Americans.
26 posted on 04/01/2003 6:50:34 AM PST by cynicom
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To: sinkspur
It's not about "ceasefire agreeements." It's about WMDs in the hands of terrorists.

Yes, indeed. But the post I responded to and the innuendo of previous remarks meant to implicate Saddam, not terrorists in general. The justification for attacking Saddam is grounded in the parameters of the 1991 ceasefire agreement and nothing further.

If WMDs are found inside of Iraqs' borders, they're Hussein's responsibility.

Umm, no it's not, unless it's his responsibility. This is an intellectually bankrupt position to hold. If Saddam doesn't control that part of Iraq, whatever is found there is clearly not his responsibility.

You seem to have a unique role on these threads. That role always seems to involve exculpating Saddam, in some way.

Ironically enough, I just posted this to another thread:

To: alnick

I fully agree with your points, but I'm just commenting on the PR aspects. If these Al Samouds are all that was found, then opponents would naturally respond that they would've been destroyed by inspections since that was already underway. I doubt any of this will matter though, because it should become abundantly clear what all Saddam has once he fires it at our troops..

47 posted on 04/01/2003 9:40 AM EST by AntiGuv (™)

Why do you feel the need to do that?

Because my comments involve reality, and there are many who wish to ignore reality when it doesn't conform to their desires. If that conflicts with your personal view of the world, that's unfortunate.

Do you feel sorry for him?

Not in the slightest. I'm quite pleased he's getting removed; I'm far less pleased that any of our people have to die in the process. Otherwise, I don't really care much what happens to Iraq (i.e. 'liberation') but I am 98% convinced they have deployable WMDs. Beyond all that, I would not have chosen to pursue his removal in this particular manner, but my opinions are irrelevant in that respect. What's done is now done, and that's good enough for me.

27 posted on 04/01/2003 6:52:40 AM PST by AntiGuv (™)
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To: TonyInOhio
Some news organizations are releasing false information.

On Monday, ABC said "No Signs of Chemical Weapons. No 'Smoking Gun' at Ansar Al-Islam Camp"

28 posted on 04/01/2003 6:54:14 AM PST by A_Niceguy_in_CA
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To: smith288
They (leftists) need to see Saddam pouring VX into missile warheads and placing Anthrax into envelopes to be convinced.

Even then they would claim that the video was a fake produced by the Pentagon. You simply are not going to convince people who will claim grass is pink just because George Bush says it's green, no matter what evidence you have.

29 posted on 04/01/2003 6:54:15 AM PST by CFC__VRWC
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To: smith288
They (leftists) need to see Saddam pouring VX into missile warheads and placing Anthrax into envelopes to be convinced.

You're kidding, of course?

"Everybody" knows we (Reagan, naturally) helped Saddam in his chemical weapons program when he was in the Iran/Iraq War and gave him the anthrax. Therefore, if we find this stuff, it is really our fault.

Thus sayeth the Left, and when we find it they will say it even louder!

Facts mean nothing. Slogans and lying propaganda mean everything. It's that "Post-Modern" truth, again....

30 posted on 04/01/2003 6:54:48 AM PST by Gritty
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To: smith288
see Saddam ...placing Anthrax into envelopes

Nope, the leftists would claim Saddam was just a coke dealer.

31 posted on 04/01/2003 6:55:03 AM PST by razorback-bert (1 April 2003..."Saddam Hussein still denies he's alive.")
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To: CFC__VRWC
Sounds familiar.
"It's bad (the purjury, obstruction of justice, rape and all) but it doesn't rise to the level of impeachment.
Same people different subject.
32 posted on 04/01/2003 6:57:42 AM PST by Ramcat
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To: AntiGuv
AntiGov, didn't we hear of captured documents linking this "camp" with the ministry of defense? Or would you have to see the documents before you drew a conclusion.
33 posted on 04/01/2003 7:02:01 AM PST by jbstrick (Behold the Power of CHEESE!)
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To: smith288
They (leftists) need to see Saddam pouring VX into missile warheads and placing Anthrax into envelopes to be convinced.

Naah. They'll just say it was one of his doubles.

34 posted on 04/01/2003 7:05:23 AM PST by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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To: jbstrick
Well, the very post you responded to includes this phrase:

Now, I have no particular view on whether they actually collaborated with Saddam...

That means I have a neutral position on whether or not these terrorists collaborated with Saddam or other Baghdad authorities, because I have insufficient information from which to draw a conclusion. However, I would add this as an aside: If Saddam wanted these particular terrorists to have WMD, then it seems reasonable to conclude that he would simply hand them refined, weaponized anthrax/sarin/whatever, rather than leave them brewing crude ricin in makeshift labs up in the mountains....

I brought that matter up before, and was vigorously flamed for my observation. I did not relish a repeat of that experience...

35 posted on 04/01/2003 7:07:32 AM PST by AntiGuv (™)
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To: smith288
I hate to beef, but you forgot: What are we forgetting... I don't believe we've found (yet) chem artillery shells, but I think we may have found mortars - just don't recall that for certain.
36 posted on 04/01/2003 7:14:32 AM PST by AFPhys (((PRAYING for: President Bush & advisors, troops & families, Americans)))
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To: AmericanInTokyo
"...destroying chemical weapons held by teroris orgs. is a legitimate action in the war on terrorism." Excellent point! Remember the speech before Congress where Bush said our purpose was to confront those terrorist org. with global reach AND the nations that harbor them. Does this org have global reach? Yes!

Does this org.have WMD? Yes!

Did Hussein give safe harbor to this group/ Yes!

Game! Set! Match!

37 posted on 04/01/2003 7:17:54 AM PST by xkaydet65
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To: The Other Harry
Even if this is true, it does not connect them to Saddam.

So, Saddam would have let us go in and take them out then < /naive>

38 posted on 04/01/2003 7:20:28 AM PST by VRWC_minion (Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
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To: The Other Harry
Ansar and Saddam were not friends of each other.

Ummm....seems I heard somewhere a saying that goes "The enemy of my enemy is my friend"...

Ansar Al-Islam: Iraq's Al-Qaeda Connection

Spotlight on Ansar al-Islam

An excerpt:

Intelligence officials told me that the agency also takes seriously reports that an Iraqi known as Abu Wa’el, whose real name is Saadoun Mahmoud Abdulatif al-Ani, is the liaison of Saddam’s intelligence service to a radical Muslim group called Ansar al-Islam, which controls a small enclave in northern Iraq; the group is believed by American and Kurdish intelligence officials to be affiliated with Al Qaeda. I learned of another possible connection early last year, while I was interviewing Al Qaeda operatives in a Kurdish prison in Sulaimaniya. There, a man whom Kurdish intelligence officials identified as a captured Iraqi agent told me that in 1992 he served as a bodyguard to Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden’s deputy, when Zawahiri secretly visited Baghdad.

39 posted on 04/01/2003 7:21:35 AM PST by ravingnutter
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To: AntiGuv
Just out of curiosity, what manner of removal would you have chosen for Saddamn and his myrmidons?
40 posted on 04/01/2003 7:23:13 AM PST by mewzilla
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