KUNAR PROVINCE AL-QAEDA CAMPS CONTAIN N. KOREANS ASSISTING ON CHEMICAL WEAPONS? (AP REPORT)

AP News ^ | 15 November 2001 | AP News Report

[AmericanInTokyo]

This story (link above) is filed by an AP Reporter, Kathy Gannon, who reports that a Taleban security worker ('former') states that in AlQaeda camp(s) in Kunar Province, deep in the Eastern Afghan mountains, the presence of what he thought are/were non-muslim North Korean individuals who were training the AQ terrorists different methodologies in handling various chemicals.North Korea is known to have a chemical and biological weapons manufacturing program, including smallpox and probably anthrax bacillus and sarin, etc. etc.

[AmericanVictory]

Unless, of course, we deploy breakthrough technology that makes what Clinton gave them obsolete, which will require outsider innovation since McNamara long ago destroyed the capability of our military to swiftly develop and adopt breakthrough, as opposed to sustaining, technology.

[tracer]

What a great excuse to deal with the dog-eaters in a manner more appropriate than that of the 50's..........

[prambo]

Only if Kim Il Sung is a FReeper.

prambo

[WALLACE212]

That will require extarterrestrial intervention; since our MX missile with the W87 warhead ( 10 of them apiece) is the most accurate and devastating strategic weapons system to date.

[GOPJ]

You're right. And Ridge needs to know what he would say to people after an attack. We need to know what to do and not to do, and we need to know now. Maybe our radios won't work. Maybe help can't get to us for a few days. He needs to tell us now. Pretend it's happened. What different scenarios exist? Citizens need to know what they can do, what they should do, and what they should not do.

[folly]

north korea is in no way equipped to take on the south. there was a harmless melee of navy ships between the north and south last year, and the north were routed. my father was actually visited the north for the south korean gov, and he said that everyone is starving, and there was no gas to even power vehicles. he also saw a u.s. military plane at the pyong yang airport and a group of americans in civilian clothes. he thought that was pretty peculiar. you'll probably hear a lot of propaganda of how big a threat the north is, don't buy it. the south korean army doesn't even need the americans to repel the north.

[AuntB]

Gulp. I've been waiting for the No. Koreans to raise their ugly heads in this mess. We best get a sharp eye on those folks.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Consider this (Aunt B),

The North Koreans were reported by AP in 2000 as having been involved in the caves of Konar with chemical weapons production for Al Qaeda. In the caves they were joined by fighters from Chechen, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, etc. We do know of North Korean activity in Afghanistan.

Also, North Korea sold ANTHRAX to Al Qaeda in 1998.

I suspect they are/were working in those camps in labs designed to produce either VX, anthrax, or smallpox (DPRK KPA soldiers STILL receive smallpox vaccinations in 2001 although the disease has been gone in the world since 1970), or perhaps sarin gas. We are either late, or stopped them in time. If they have the delivery capability you can bet the US and Allies are in a very dangerous position, not to mention the Continental United States if the AQ and other networks have not been fully smashed yet.

One thing is for sure. No North Korean leaves the DPRK on a passport without the full knowledge, control and financial backing of the Goverment of Pyongyang.

This afternoon North and South Korea broke off reunification talks; the South is on military alert. If we so much as catch one carcass of a North Korean, or better yet, get one alive and 'encourage him' to tell us all what they are doing, we may in fact need to start to prosecute a war on North Korea in addition to the one we are probably heading into with Iraq.

[Eternal_Bear]

Kon-nichi-wa Beikoku-jin-san

It really does look like we need to do a clean sweep. It's only going to get worse in the future. Now is the Time.

[AmericanInTokyo]

I am sure we have already delivered the threats of massive military retaliation resulting in their total demise in Pyongyang, unofficially through diplomatic channels.

In other words, they have been warned. I am guessing Kim Jong-il and his inner circle are sweating bullets right now that one of their DPRK operatives in chem/bio warfare or nuke engineering is not captured in Tablian-controlled Afghanistan in the next few days or weeks.

[lafroste]

It wasn't clintoon "opening up" China that people here oblect too. It was clintoon selling China advanced military information, designs, etc. that allowed them to essentially catch-up to the USA in nuclear weapons technology and ballistic missle technology in a matter of only a few years.

It should have taken them better than 20 years to close the gap with the US on their own instead of the five years they did it in.

clintoon was to the Chinese as the Rosenburgs were to the soviet union. We executed the rosenburgs.

[AuntB]

"This afternoon North and South Korea broke off reunification talks; the South is on military alert."

I hadn't heard that yet. A dear friend is stationed in So. Korea.

[dr_who]

Sounds like they need to get those North Koreans or whoever they are quick.

[Nuke'm Glowing]

Dear North Korea, The 38th parallel is not a shield which blocks inbound ICBM's. Thought you might want to know that before doing anything really stupid again.

[Republic of Texas]

A body of a N. Korean would work. After we tore them a new one, would it still be a war against Islam?

[Republic of Texas]

The End of the Internet, of course.

[flamefront]

non-Muslims he thought were from North Korea

Could be the Chinese we've heard about.