Kuwait Foils Biochem Arms Smuggling From Iraq

Dow Jones Newswires ^ | October 1 | AP

[Pete]

KUWAIT CITY (AP)--Kuwaiti security authorities have foiled an attempt to smuggle $60 million worth of chemical weapons and biological warheads from Iraq to an unnamed European country, a Kuwaiti newspaper said Wednesday.

The pro-government Al-Siyassah, quoting an unnamed security source, said the suspects had been watched by security since they arrived in Kuwait and were arrested "in due time." It didn't say when or how the smugglers entered Kuwait or when they were arrested.

The paper said the smugglers might have had accomplices inside Kuwait. It said Interior Minister Sheik Nawwaf Al Ahmed Al Sabah would hand over the smuggled weapons to an FBI agent at a news conference, but didn't say when.

Government officials couldn't be immediately reached for comment.

Iraqi Interior Minister Nouri Al-Badran met Tuesday with Sheik Nawwaf and discussed cooperation between the two countries in security matters. His visit is the first by an Iraqi interior minister to Kuwait since 1990.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Trial balloon? It reminds me of the ship that was quarentined in Canada after one of the crew members died in Brazil of what appeared to be anthrax - the story just vanished into thin air.

[freeperfromnj]

Same article in the Kuwait newspaper Zawya

http://www.zawya.com/countries/kw/

[Dog]

Peach ping me to anything you think is important.

[UCANSEE2]

Please allow this to be the ELEPHANT that can not be ignored. The ELEPHANT that bellows it's CALL, that THROWS around the furniture, that picks up any one trying to harm the elephant and throws them over the stairwell to the basement.

Please embarrass those TRAITORS in our country that call themselves DEMOCRATS.

[No Blue States]

Great Catch, if this is finally the one you should get a medal or something for posting it 1st.

[Smogger]

The story just appeared 20 minutes ago. Look at the date of the story, October 2nd. That means it would be in this morning's paper.

If you lived in Kuwait.

[OldFriend]

The dems and their cohorts in the media already trying to back off their hysterical response to Novak's column.

They are praying for some real news to take over.

[over3Owithabrain]

Agreed - if this does bear fruit (and I'm hopeful but doubtful), Pete gets immediate enshrinement into the Freeper HOF.

[Pete]

Sweet. Thanks.

Admin Mod - If you feel like it, you can update the Source link to the one provided by avg_freeper in post #131.

Thanks.

[Peach]

Considering how long it took the mainstream press to report all the news about Wilson (expects a movie deal, used to believe Iraq had WMD, wife's maiden name listed in his bio which is unusual for "covert" agents, is a big liar, etc.) - well you see my point.

The mainstream news has yet to report those little facts and never will because it doesn't fit into their preconceived agenda.

[Dog]

It is Thursday in Kuwait......the morning papers have just come out. We are seeing the first reports.....we need to see if this has legs.

[mewzilla]

Wonder if it appeared in the dead tree edition or just on-line? Because if it was in the dead tree edition it's out there, no taking it back my making it disappear.

[Dog]

Pete never worry about posting something you find....there are enough of us here who will flesh out the story thru links.

Good find!

[MattAMiller]

Before we get too excited notice that AP is just quoteing a Kuwaiti newspaper. Some of these foreign news sources aren't very reliable. We will see.

[Dog]

This will not appear on our media until tomorrow morning at the earliest.

[alnick]

Everyone bombard Fox News with the link in post 26. They need to go on air with this.

[Peach]

Will do; searching like crazy. My guess is this was released without official sanction from the US. Dang it all.

[republicanwizard]

Good one!

[Arrowhead1952]

Not a smoking gun anymore. This baby's got live ammo coming out the barrel.

[avg_freeper]

No good, link is now bad. It looks like they put a time limit on the UID or something. But StoryID=2003100119220013 if you are trying to find the article.