Can Iraq Hit America?

Newsweek ^ | March 17, 2003 | Daniel Klaidman and Christopher Dickey

[Storm Eagle]

"...as Washington threatens to bring Saddam’s own reign to an end, U.S. officials are afraid he might use such gruesome tactics against Americans. Outgunned on the traditional battlefield, Saddam is looking to fight back on his own terms. That, according to American officials, could mean any number of terror plots, from isolated assassinations of U.S. citizens overseas to biological or chemical attacks in the American heartland."

[LayoutGuru2]

February 26, 1991 - Liberation of Kuwait
February 26, 1993 - WTC One

Need I say more?

[Judith Anne]

Well, my memory could be leaky. I'd be interested to know what you learn...I do recall especially the scene in the barn, saying the Pledge...

[Judith Anne]

Here's what I found on a google search of TV archives:

"This series depicted life as imagined in the United States in the late 1990s, ten years after the Soviet Union took control of America employing a Russian controlled UN peace-keeping force."

Maybe I'm remembering opening scenes of the UN peacekeeping force taking over...

[xzins]

Thanks. One of the most militarily ignorant movies ever made was "Red Dawn." It was good drama, great propaganda, showed Americans standing up for their country, etc., but the truth is that Cuban paratroopers could not seize and hold even one of the Florida Keys Islands, much less a couple states in the heartland of america. Our air superiority and heavy follow-on forces would grind them to nothing in extremely short order.

As for America's vulnerability to terrorists killing civilians, well, we already know the answer to that. It can be done. They could kill a bunch of civilians.

But a militarily effective strike by Iraq against America simply isn't possible. Their naval, land, and air forces are not able to project that kind of power.

What is the heart of America? Osama took out a key piece of the economic community and the economy barely burped. What could they hit that would cripple this nation?

[Walnut]

Thanks!!!!

[riri]

great link, thanks for posting that.

[Grampa Dave]

This really crystalizes the link between 9/11 re Iraq and the al Qaeda mass murdering Islamokazis.

"Former Iraqi military officers have described a highly secret terrorist training facility at Salman Pak, where both Iraqis and non-Iraqi Arabs receive training on hijacking planes and trains, planting explosives in cities, sabotage, and assassinations.

Salman Pak, located 30-40 km SE of Baghdad, engaged in laboratory scale research on Anthrax, Botulinum toxin, Clostridium, perfringens (gas gangrene), mycotoxins, aflatoxins, and Ricin. Researchers at this site carried out toxicity evaluations of these agents and examined their growth characteristics and survivability.

Iraq told UN inspectors that Salman Pak was an anti-terror training camp for Iraqi special forces. However, two defectors from Iraqi intelligence stated that they had worked for several years at the secret Iraqi government camp, which had trained Islamic terrorists in rotations of five or six months since 1995. Training activities including simulated hijackings carried out in an airplane fuselage [said to be a Boeing 707] at the camp. The camp is divided into distinct sections. On one side of the camp young, Iraqis who were members of Fedayeen Saddam are trained in espionage, assassination techniques and sabotage. The Islamic militants trained on the other side of the camp, in an area separated by a small lake, trees and barbed wire. The militants reportedly spent time training, usually in groups of five or six, around the fuselage of the airplane. There were rarely more than 40 or 50 Islamic radicals in the camp at one time. "

From: http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iraq/salman_pak.htm

[stanz]

It's all very scary- - - especially the part about infected individuals just mingling with the population.

[thinking]

I say...lets get on with it...the only thing we have to fear; is fear...(my thoughts)

[AppyPappy]

Face it. Saddam doesn't have many fans among his own people. And his soldiers have never appeared to be willing to die for him. He is left with radical terrorists and they would attack us anyway.

[Mitchell]

Ping.

[baseballmom]

FYI-

Listening to Michael Smerconish radio program today (WPHT 1210 - The Big Talker. This Wednesday, March 19, 2003, Michael will be broadcasting his show from Sen. Arlen Spector's office in Washington.

Invited to the show are Reps. Gerlach, (R-Pa) Chakkah Fattah (D-Pa), Hoeffel(D-Pa) and of course, Arlen Spector (R-Pa). (Perhaps others, I just didn't catch all the names)

Yesterday, Michael hosted the Rally for America at Valley Forge. Rep Gerlach was there, and Michael said the whole Jana Davis investigation piqued his interest. Michael said maybe Rep Gerlach will do what no one else has done so far - INVESTIGATE!!!

I called Sen Spector's office a few weeks ago to inquire about the progress of the Jayna Davis investigation. I was sorely disappointed with the response. I talked to a staffer for a while, and he basically told me the investigation is going nowhere.

Maybe this will re-kindle a spark.

[honway]

Thanks for the information and your continued efforts.