Saddam and Iran Prepare WMD

efreedomnews.com ^ | August 15, 2002 | Jonathan Rhodes

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Scary stuff!

[Cold Heat]

Nice site! Bookmarked for later reading and reference.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Isn't the northest area where the Al-Queda are relocating?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And another map:

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And in Turkey:

[efnwriter]

Yes, al-Qaida are known to have crossed the northwestern Afghan border into northeastern Iran. The caves mentioned in the article and the Zagros mountains are in northwestern Iran, just over the border from Iraq.
Jonathan

[Mike Darancette]

I wonder what is really going on here. We fiddle around while our recognized enemy (Iraq) ramps up WMD. Iraq's historical enemy Iran gears up WMD. Russia signs a trade pact with Iraq.

This sounds like the late 1930's all over again. Will Iraq attack Iran, taking the Western Part while Russia Takes the East? This would give Russia an oil pipeline path from the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf or the Arabian Sea.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The caves are in Iran?

I would bet that would tie Iraq to being a the major supporter of the Al Queda!

All Bush has to do is deliver some evidence that they are guarding the Weapons of Iraq and much of the current critism would lessen!

[DBtoo]

Does anyone know how much oil Iran has? Iraq has the second largest supply next to Saudi Arabia. But I would like to know how oil-rich Iran is.

[efnwriter]

Yes Ernest, the caves are in Iran. This is an excerpt from the article.

US and Israeli satellites have picked up large convoys of trucks leaving the Taji Single Cell Protein Plant, 6 miles northwest of Baghdad. The destination: The Zagros Mountains - 12,000 to 15,000 feet high and nearly impassable. The convoys stop at two sites 20 to 30 kilometers inside the Iranian border in Kermanshah Province near the suburbs of Khorram-Abad and the other in the Harour Hills in the Khorram Abad region.... So clearly, convoys of trucks leaving Taji would be transporting WMD weapons or the equipment to make WMD weapons. Saddam would like to keep this state of the art WMD factory intact. The two destination sites in the Zagros are tunnels built in the mid-1970's by the Shah of Iran. After his fall in 1979 when Jimmy Carter abandoned him, a Revolutionary Guard (Pazdaran) force was permanently stationed at the tunnels site. In early 1998 the tunnels were modernized and greatly strengthened against air attacks. DEBKAfile reports: Iran’s ulterior motive in providing safekeeping for Saddam’s WMD resources is simple. According to our intelligence sources, Iran commands nothing nearly as advanced as Iraq in the way of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons-making equipment. Helping Saddam will lend Iran’s experts free access to Iraq’s state of the art equipment and a chance to copy and assimilate technology that cost Iraq billions of dollars to develop.

Jonathan

[efnwriter]

At the end of 2001, Iran had 89.7 thousand million barrels reserve (in the ground) and Iraq had 112.5.

link: http://www.bp.com/downloads/1090/oil.pdf

home link: http://www.bp.com/centres/energy2002/oil/reserves.asp#

Jonathan

[defenderSD]

This article is way out in left field, which isn't surprising considering the author quotes Debka as a source. Iraq is not going to invade Jordan and Israel because they can't move mechanized infantry across the open desert with the US and Israeli air forces attacking them from the air. Their tanks would be turned into smoking wrecks just as in the first Gulf War. They might be able to pull off some kind of end run around US forces into Kuwait and harass the Kuwaitees for a few days until we kick them out again with air power. But this idea of Iraq conquering the Middle East is rediculous.

[Joe Boucher]

No, the U.S. shouldn't go after Sadam and his, they should just let Iraq go and wipe Israel off the map and then bully the rest of the mid-east and world. STUPID LIBERALS.

[American in Israel]

. Iraq is not going to invade Jordan and Israel because they can't move mechanized infantry across the open desert with the US and Israeli air forces attacking them from the air.

You miss the point, Iraq and Iran are preparing to WMD American troops and Israel. After a few nukes on our troops there will not be the force necessary to stop troop movements. The Egyptians said as much over a year ago in the Newspapers. Iraq cannot stop us with conventional troops, even they know that. That is why a first-strike scenario by WMD is becoming more likely. These movements by the Iraqi's with help from the Iranians confirm that.

[DBtoo]

Would that qualify them as the country with the world's third largest oil reserves? I suspect it is. I'll check out the links. Thanks!

[ASA Vet]

After a few nukes on our troops

On that day, their nations would cease to exist.
Even the CommiecRATs would stop being liberals for a day or two.

Peace is possible in the Middle East.

[dennisw]

Iraq is not going to invade Jordan and Israel because they can't move mechanized infantry across the open desert with the US and Israeli air forces attacking them from the air. Their tanks would be turned into smoking wrecks just as in the first Gulf War.

Tanks and other mechanized infantry are worthless in the treeless/coverless Middle East these days. They will be taken out BRUTALLY by an array of weaponry from the air. Smarter bombs and up to and including tactical neutron bombs.

The 1973 tank battle between Israel-Egypt is yesterday's news.

[hflynn]

Saddam cannot win a war with the US, if the US has the will to win. However, if he attacks first and achieves military control over much of the middle east, he can reach a position of strength to negotiate from and may not only maintain his power but extend it.

ROTFLMAO!!

Attacks first? Whom? How? and most impotantly why? Saddam has been playing the victim game since Desert Storm. If he attacks anyone he loses the only safeguard he has left, being the victim. Use WMD? What do you think Israel is going to respond with if WMD is used on them. This whole column is ludicrous.

[SamAdams76]

This article is preposterous. Sadaam will never be in a position of power in which the U.S. would have to "negotiate" peace. The U.S. already has enough military resources in the region to lay waste to any offensive movement that Sadaam might have in mind. And that does not even take into consideration the massive military might of Israel that would likely be drawn into the action as well as the not insignificant military muscle of Turkey. There is simply no chance in hell that Sadaam can "take over" the Middle East and force us to negotiate with him. And if Sadaam does decide to use WMD, it will be the last thing he ever does along with a few million of his people.