Posted on 04/20/2004 5:23:18 PM PDT by Bayou City
Don't Be Surprised When Iraqi WMD Found
April 20, 2004
I don't know if you heard about this, because it has not been widely reported. Terrorists linked to Al-Qaeda were poised to detonate a chemical bomb in the heart of Amman, Jordan, that would have killed 20,000 people and contaminated a large area. King Abdullah praised Jordan's intelligence service for foiling a crime never before seen in the kingdom of Jordan. The target was a headquarters of the general intelligence department on a hill in Amman.
King Abdullah was to be in America to meet with President Bush, but decided not to come because of this threat. Where this story gets interesting is that King Abdullah of Jordan says that the vehicles carrying these explosives, the chemical bomb, were smuggled over the border from neighboring Syria. Syria is denying this, but these are weapons of mass destruction.
Syria is a transit point for weapons of mass destruction. The whole subject of where are the weapons of mass destruction remains a focal point of mine. It remains an area of heightened curiosity, because I do not believe that they have been destroyed. I do not believe that Iraq never had them. I think Iraq had them. I think Iraq was working on them. I don't think the world's intelligence agencies are as woefully incompetent and bad and inept as the whole weapons of mass destruction issue would lead us to believe.
There are some things missing from buildings in Iraq, and there's too much speculation out there about how some of this stuff can be miniaturized and transported out of the country easily. Syria is an obvious place, and many people I respect have pointed to the Bekaa Valley as a place as well. We're not going to invade Syria any time soon to find out, but this is the second example of weapons of mass destruction-type coming out of Syria.
Now, they had to get to Syria somehow. I just want to keep your mind open to the possibility that these weapons of mass destruction from Iraq are somewhere, and they've not been destroyed. They haven't just vanished into the ether, and I'm going to make a prediction to you that all of the liberals and critics of the president who have harped on this and jumped on this have once again jumped the gun. They are a little premature here because we don't know yet what, if anything, did happen to those weapons of mass destruction, despite knowing that they did exist. So keep your hats on and don't be surprised down the road what is learned at some point.
Yellow cake uranium has been found at junk yards in Rotterdam and that's exactly what Iraq was looking for. This stuff could have been disbursed over the years to any number of places, and if you think that an Al-Qaeda related group is going to blow up Amman, Jordan with weapons that were procured from Syria, if you think that Al-Qaeda is not related to what all was going on in Iraq, and the Middle East, then you are engaged in blindness or wishful thinking. That is the position of the left, and that's why they can't be trusted to be placed in a leadership position.
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I've heard both of these stories on the news.
One says a "truck" with "17 tons" of explosives was was to be used to attack the US Embassy in
Amman, Jordan and to attack the building used by the Jordanian Intelligence services.
The other story mentions an attempted chemical attack the could leave up to twenty thousand
dead. The type chemical is never mentioned. The news readers at CNNABCNBCMSNBCCBS etc.
don't show the slightest curiosity about what sort of chemical this could be. Wonder why?
And the Jordanian government isn't offering to tell either. This is one strange story.
What do you think it all means?
Oh no, my cover is blown.
You are not an intellectual giant.
"In the land of the giant, the one-eyed man is king." I suppose that in the land of the pygmies, one needn't be a giant to tower over the others.
And maybe I'll post some facts and logic about the tooth fairy and the Easter bunny while I'm at it. Sorry, but the reality is that YOU have to demonstrate even the smallest shred of evidence that WMDs existed in Iraq. So far Colin Powell, Tenet, Bush, Blair and everyone else involved has admitted that they have zero evidence. Maybe you know something that they don't know?
Don't tell me you want to make Serbia, Afghanistan and Iraq into the 51st, 52nd, and 53rd states!!?? If not, then your comparison is irrelevant.
How about if we start with Bill Kristol and his cohorts over at Weekly Standard. Wasn't he the standard-bearer for John McCain? And wasn't his father the inventor of "neo-conservatism" (note quote in earlier post). And didn't they place all their friend in the White House. Check out the fracas between Robert Novak and David Frum if you want to see a a contrast between a real conservative and the kind of excrement that got placed in the White House by the "McCainiacs."
As long as the US government isn't involved, they can have anyone running their countries that they damn well please. I don't have any particular opinions on who I want running lots of countries around the world. In fact, of the 179 countries in the UN, 178 of them can pick whomever they choose. Let's start with our own country before we worry about "regime change" in Afghanistan or anywhere else.
And you can bank on this: I'd sure as hell rather have Slobodan Milosevic back in power in Serbia instead of the KLA Muslim terrorists running things over there.
Put me down for "pure evil, laziness, self-importance, etc.,"
There ya go... thinking again </sarcasm
Seriously, you are correct. This should be a "stop the presses" story. Only Newsmax.com, FR, and VERY few other media outlets reported the full stories. The fact it is not a media blitz is quite telling about thier concern for the truth. The fact that it is reported so differently also speaks volumes. I really would like to know what these chemicals are.
That said, since the report indicates these were the primary components of the agent, it leads me to believe the agent was Sarin. Sarin gas is a bynary compound: You must mix two components together to produce it. Some other chemical weapons are like this, since transporting inert components is obviosly safer than moving an assembled weapon. I'm betting Sarin or Mustard Gas since they are simpler and would survive the explosion better, but GB blister or VX nerve are also possibilities. The issue with some types of GB and VX in a bomb is they dissapate quickly in high heat. Even desert temps will render it lees-than-leathal in a relativly short time.
This was part of the old Soviet doctrine we trained against. The Soviets trained to use "non-persistant" or short duration chem attacks to separate NATO units or destroy C2 nodes and "rear" areas that the Red Army would eventually want to move through. Anyone ever going to NTC remembers the non-persistant chemical stikes that would seal off movement corridors while the OPFOR attacked at thier leisure. For those not in the military, don't worry, our training NBC attacks were all notional and marked with innocuous smoke granades and a O/C (referee) to judge who did the right things and who got "killed".
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