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Iraq's chemists bought anthrax from America
London Telegraph ^ | Filed 10-18-01 | London Telegraph

Posted on 10/17/2001 10:02:23 PM PDT by Salvation

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Is Saddam next?
1 posted on 10/17/2001 10:02:23 PM PDT by Salvation
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To: Salvation
"...scientists bought by mail order from America in the 1980s."

Really? The United States never ceases to amaze me.

2 posted on 10/17/2001 10:12:54 PM PDT by WIMom
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To: Salvation
Interesting post . . .
3 posted on 10/17/2001 10:20:39 PM PDT by rainingred
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To: Askel5
ATCC? Where have I heard that before?

Quit baking for the firemen and get over here.

4 posted on 10/17/2001 10:28:36 PM PDT by nunya bidness
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To: Salvation
Deport science and engineering graduate students from terrorist nations now! The sleepers who came back in the late 80s now have their degrees and their citizenship and, for all we know, are well placed in our government agencies.
5 posted on 10/17/2001 10:38:37 PM PDT by Rockitz
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To: Salvation
Tonight on FOX news... it was reported the commanders in the middle east were being required to work on targets outside afghanistan related to the major terrorist groups that support al quiada and the taliban... and especially targets in the Sudan. I am VERY confident that this was a strategic "leak" by the Department of Defense... and means, well er, nothing.

IE: if we say sudan is next, SUDAN will say either "I give up first" or will prepare for the attack that is imminent (in their view) hee hee.... Either action tells us a lot IF we are watching carefully from Outer Space... which they all know WE ARE. Which leads us to Sodom Insane... if HE heard the slip, he is thinking; "Either this is a clever ploy by the Americans to try and get our guard down, so lets instead rev up the guard, hide the WMD's and get me to a bunker..." OR he is thinking "Whew, USA f'd up again... get the troops ready and fire up the WMD manufacturing... "

And once again, no matter his moves, we are watching... have already seen.. and are already making plans. Damn its tough to duck when a bomb is not coming... while waiting for the one that might be... until after the one that does... does!

No terrorist nation is safe. The "love-american-style" show with Bush/Cheney/Powell/Rice/Rummy, is a scripted act destined to turn each of our enemies against each other in violent acts of self preservation, to no avail. Since America defeated our best pals the brits in the art of assymetrical warfare... a la "patriot, the movie" style... it has been forgotten that WE not the Terrorist Scum, are the ones that INVENTED and PERFECTED guerilla warfare.

had we been "allowed" to win in Vietnam... we would have. No one wanted to.

The vaunted AFGHAN guerilla warriors got ALL of their training, assistance, and warfare planning from OUR guys... and defeated the former Soviet Communists. Truth be told, it was OUR strategists that WON that war, our special and black ops guys... our technology, our weapons, our strategic genius and intelligence assets... When I hear folks say how tough these pukes are, it makes me want to heave... had we not supported them... they would all be feeding pigs in Siberia... not farming them... the feed FOR them a-la-soviet occupation.

We may lose this entire nation... but it will be because of how Clinton cannibalised our national military prowess for " a fistful of dollars" and "a few dollars more."

We will NOT fall easily though... and OUR team is the best, has the best, and knows how to use the best available to achieve the desired outcomes. I am VERY proud of my family members, americans, soldiers, pilots and marines. They do their jobs well. I pray they live to share the joy of their homecoming to a FREE nation...

Iraq, you better gdamn believe it are on the list... as to whether they are next, near the top, or have a snowball's chance in hell of getting off of it before its too late, we will have to leave to our elected leadership. God help them do it best, do it right, do it till its done.

6 posted on 10/17/2001 10:40:41 PM PDT by eccl1212
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To: Salvation
What's kind of scary is the little tidbit about the Ames strain of Anthrax. Request denied, fortunately the article says. So the question remains: WTF is the Ames Strain, and why are we glad Saddam Insane didn't get it?

It also begs the next question: Could Saddam and his party-pastry crew of bioterroristas manage to find their butts in the dark with a flashlight and both hands long enough to develop a strain similar to Ames?

Who has these answers? Inquiring minds want to know.

And in the meantime, which filter should I be putting on my gas mask to keep out those spores?

Excuse me, I have to change my tinfoil hat now. Mind control waves, you know.

David

7 posted on 10/17/2001 10:47:06 PM PDT by DGallandro
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To: Salvation
most of the leading scientists in the Iraqi bio-warfare programme,
including its project chief, Rihab Rashida Taha, were trained in Britain.

The doctor is a woman,and nicknamed Dr. Germ

and this...

The article introduces us to Dr. Rihab Rashida Taha, Iraq's long-time chief of bioweapons production. She trained in the United Kingdom and is known to various American inspectors as "Dr. Germ". She is attributed with thwarting United Nations officials at every turn. Of more concern is the subsequent revelation about bioweapons. According to a Pentagon official, they can be produced using a recipe found on the Internet, a beer fermenter, a culture, a gas mask and a total investment of around 10,000 dollars. The official says:

"If you buy commercial equipment and put it in a very small room you can be producing anthrax within a month".

8 posted on 10/17/2001 11:04:16 PM PDT by PRND21
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Could Saddam and his party-pastry crew of bioterroristas manage to find their butts in the dark with a flashlight and both hands long enough to develop a strain similar to Ames?

Absolutely. The head of the chemical/biological research was profiled on 60 minutes a while back and she is a brilliant scientest. Very much a zealot, too, whichi is a scary combination. I remember watching it thinking, "Now that's one person the CIA outta take out."
9 posted on 10/17/2001 11:08:33 PM PDT by MikeJG
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To: WIMom
Jihad in America

real player

12 posted on 10/17/2001 11:17:02 PM PDT by FITZ
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To: Salvation

Nuke The Bastards!!!


13 posted on 10/18/2001 12:16:40 AM PDT by GreenGrouper
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To: MikeJG
I wonder how many of her manuals we'll find lying around the USA once this sorry mess is (mostly) cleaned up. If masses of it are this easy to cook up, it is being done stateside. Why bother smuggling in large quantities?
14 posted on 10/18/2001 12:20:31 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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To: Rockitz
"Deport science and engineering graduate students from terrorist nations now!"

Here's an historical flashback.

Hossein Sheikholeslam was a leading figure among the thugs that took over the American Embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. He was also a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. On October 22, 1983 Sheikholeslam checked out of the Sheraton in Beruit, the day before the explosions at the Marine and French Compounds. Both events showed the terrorists in the Islamic World that terrorism can drive the Americans and Western nations out of the Middle East.

15 posted on 10/18/2001 3:54:58 AM PDT by prometheus
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To: PRND21
Taha is one scary monster. Anybody who devotes her life to finding more and more gruesome ways to kill human beings doesn't deserve to be called one.
16 posted on 10/18/2001 3:58:54 AM PDT by shezza
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To: Salvation
Sounds like we are one screwed up country. No enforceable borders, no immigration enforcement, no airline security, no cia of value, a comprimised fbi, a sold out senate and congress and the biologicals with which we are being threatened came from us. Something is very wrong with this picture. Sounds like we've been had.
17 posted on 10/18/2001 3:59:57 AM PDT by Osinski
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To: trax2001
Speaking of Russians, the breakup of the former Soviet Union, the Russian mafia, and their ties to bio-warfare, take a peek at this story. Guaranteed to widen eyes and tingle spines.
18 posted on 10/18/2001 4:03:48 AM PDT by shezza
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To: Rockitz
Speaking of foreign graduate students, I wonder if the mail from Princeton (Zip code 08540) would go through the Trenton post office. I wonder how many foreign graduate students and technicians at Princeton University would have access to anthrax.
19 posted on 10/18/2001 4:58:18 AM PDT by aristeides
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One of Bill Clintoon first orders was to revamp how we handle training medical students in this country. He dug deep into his bag of cronies and pulled out Donna Shallala (I can't keep from hearing Eric Clapton when I hear her name)to make it happen.

Anyway, as a result it became increasingly harder for our young men and women to get accepted into medical schools because the desks were being filled with more and more foreign medical students. Remember the raid on Grenada? Remember the medical school that was liberated? It was filled with OUR kids! Americans who were smart enough but, had the wrong birthplace to make the cut.Loads of our kids were being forced to apply and attend overseas if they wanted to pursue medicine.

So, we start filling our medical schools and hospitals with students and residents from other countries. Some of the kids are from wealthy middle eastern families. Some are government sponsored.

It appears that in fact....we DID train the same doctors and biochemists that are now raining down Antrax and God knows what else on our heads.

While we are sweeping up our state department over willie nilly visas we also need to address the fiasco Bill Clintoon spawned in our medical community. We have the best medicine on the planet. Our medical school should be off limits to non-citizens.

Our farmers feed the world...but why should our institutes of higher learning have to train them?

20 posted on 10/18/2001 5:05:08 AM PDT by Fighting Irish
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