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http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=16026
"Saddam Hussein's Iraq Had Weapons of Mass Death"
by Deroy Murdock
Posted Jul 13, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "What if terrorists acquired a few of these shells? “You’re not talking about transferring hundreds to make an impact in New York, in a subway, or anything like that,” Hoekstra told reporters June 21. “One or two of these shells, the materials inside of these, transferred outside of the country can be very, very deadly.”
Here and there, other potentially deadly things have emerged from Iraq’s sands.
Former weapons inspector David Kay declared on October 2, 2003 that U.S. personnel discovered “a vial of live C. botulinum Okra B. from which a biological agent can be produced.” This was, Kay said, “hidden in the home” of an Iraqi biological weapons researcher.
In January 2004, according to a New York Sun editorial published that June 1, a 7-pound block of cyanide salt popped up in Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s Baghdad safe house.
On May 2, 2004, U.S. forces in Iraq found a mustard-gas shell, rigged as an Improvised Explosive Device. The ISG dismissed this as “ineffective” due to improper storage. Of course, the effectiveness of Hussein’s weapons was not the issue. He was supposed to prove they had been destroyed or open his facilities for inspection. Instead, Hussein failed to account for 550 mustard-gas projectiles. This may have been among them.
“The Iraqi Survey Group confirmed today that a 155-millimeter artillery round containing sarin nerve agent had been found,” also reworked as an IED, Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt told reporters that May 15. Two soldiers exposed to the device “displayed ‘classic’ symptoms of sarin exposure, most notably dilated pupils and nausea,” Fox News reported. Officials also told the network that the shell contained three to four liters of sarin, roughly three-quarters of a gallon.
Weapons sleuth Charles Duelfer told Fox News June 24, 2004: “We found, you know, 10 or 12 sarin and mustard rounds.”
That July 6, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that a joint effort with the Pentagon removed 1.77 metric tons of low-enriched uranium from Iraq “that could potentially be used in a radiological dispersal device or diverted to support a nuclear weapons program,” said a DOE statement. Those 3,894 pounds of uranium were in “powdered form, which is easily dispersed,” DOE spokesman Bryan Wilkes told Hudson Institute adjunct fellow Richard Miniter, author of “Disinformation: 22 Media Myths that Undermine the War on Terror.” As Miniter concludes: “The materal would have been ideal for a radioactive dirty bomb.”
So, Americans in Iraq have found 500 sarin- and mustard-gas-filled artillery shells, live botulinum toxin, cyanide salt, and nearly two tons of uranium. Yet, no, Virginia, there were no WMDs in Iraq."
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"Canada: Muslim community reacts angrily."
GLobe and Mail ^ | 07/14/06 | SONYA FATAH
Posted on 07/13/2006 10:55:39 PM PDT by Pikamax
"Muslim community reacts angrily SONYA FATAH"
From Friday's Globe and Mail
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Members of Toronto's diverse Muslim community reacted angrily to the identification of Mubin Shaikh as an RCMP and CSIS agent.
“This is like the pot calling the kettle black,” said Tarek Fatah, communications director for the Canadian Muslim Congress.
“He was the embodiment of extremism in the city. He was the exponent of sharia law in the city.”
Indeed, Mr. Sheikh has been a chief proponent of sharia law, lobbying for using the Islamic legal code at the Al-Noor Mosque, where he ran the Al-Noor Arbitration Centre, the only such centre in Canada.
“He was supporting some of the most extremist groups in Canada. Now, he's throwing up modern and Canadian values.
“It brings into question whether he's trying to salvage his own problems with the authorities.”
Mr. Fatah says that Mr. Shaikh's divisive views on the Muslim community hardly represent Canadian values.
A different but equally damning view was expressed by Aly Hindy, the controversial imam of the Salahuddin Islamic Centre in Scarborough, attended by some of the 17 arrested youth."