IRAQI SOLDIER CAPTURED WITH ANTHRAX & INSTRUCTIONS HOW TO KILL COALITION SOLDIERS

MSNBC | 3/2203 | Bob Arnot

[Steven W.]

Breaking: Bob Arnot of NBC News reports coalition forces have captured an Iraqi soldier who was found to have an envelope with a suspicious powder, presumably anthrax, and instructions on how to kill coalition soldiers using it. Arnot is stationed with the medivac units supporting coalition forces.

[EllaMinnow]

Here.

[MattAMiller]

If whatever he was carrying was in an "envelope", then it wasn't anthrax. This is bull.

Yeah who's ever heard of envelopes full of anthrax?

[demlosers]

Here's some proof for your brother.

Ping!

[Sofa King]

typo in previous post; as=ass

[concerned about politics]

Who is that woman wearing pink,grey and brown jacket, I getting sick looking at it?

OMG. I saw that outfit. It's horrid! Even my husband said "look at that woman." He even noticed how awful it was. LOL

[Peach]

Freepers on the Live thread listening to MSNBC heard Peter Arnette say the same thing. It's great to have a link, and in a perfect world we ask them them and get them. War isn't a perfect world and something Peter Arnette reports, on camera, before millions of people, especially about ANTHRAX IN IRAQ, is news. How do you link to his words on camera? It's up to MSNBC to decide what they put on their website and they've not gone with it yet. Doesn't mean this didn't happen - not when so many Freepers heard the same thing.

[Recovering_Democrat]

URL?

[browardchad]

If whatever he was carrying was in an "envelope", then it wasn't anthrax. This is bull.

I don't know if the story's true or not, but carrying anthrax in an envelope wouldn't prove or disprove its authenticity.

True, it would expose the person carrying it to anthrax, but it may take a week or more to actually debilitate the carrier, by which time he could be expected to infect many. Considering how the Iraqi regime has total disregard for its troops' life or safety, it wouldn't be inconsistent for them to use them this way. An uneducated peasant might not even know that he was being set up, but he would certainly know that refusal to do it would mean summary execution. Not much of a choice.

[ez]

So it is your supposition that at least one member of the US Armed Forces, and at least one other person who could speak "Arabic" conspired to create an envelope of Anthrax and instructions for using it. Since it would be QUITE difficult for a regular troop to get Anthrax, he would have to also have the help of higher ups in the chain of command with the power to get Anthrax, so we essectially need an organized military effort.

That leaves us in the position of deciding whether US troops are enacting an organized effort to plant evidence on Iraqi soldiers, or whether the Iraqi's actually DO have WMD's, as the US government has claimed for at least twelve years.

I have to say, the "planted evidence" theory is much more inlikely, and smacks of desperation not to be proven wrong.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Ping!

[aristeides]

The deliverer could also be immunized.

[Nita Nuprez]

You give newbies a bad name.

[Petronski]

This is a direct ping to myself and you. If this story is discredited, I'll expect your public apology.

Likewise, if this story is proven true, I will tender my public apology to you.

That said, I've lived through enough wars to know that the only thing that flies across the globe faster than a lie is a rumor. I do not believe my skepticism is unwarranted or wrong.

Your priggish attitude is unnecessary--and unseemly for someone as new here as you.

[alnick]

Did our troops get Anthrax vacinnations?

[Sofa King]

"That said, I've lived through enough wars to know that the only thing that flies across the globe faster than a lie is a rumor. I do not believe my skepticism is unwarranted or wrong."

I'd say that skepticism about conspiracy theories is more called for.

[BRL]

What threw me for a loop, and why I got confused then angry is this:

Ewing posted the same info in a thread he started. He sourced the information by linking it to the MSNBC homepage. I (and another) spent some time searching that page (before I even knew about this thread) for the story. Nothing was there. I became suspect. I don't appreciate people making things up.

[aristeides]

Did our troops get Anthrax vacinnations?

I think I've read that they did.

[Peach]

OKAY - I'm over 200 posts through this thread - there's no new info - just a bunch of people arguing about something that's stupid to argue about. Cut it out - some people want actual news.

[Carry_Okie]

One could also patch it out in the desert to be kicked up as dust by armored vehicles.

IMO, it's still a stupid choice of a bug for warfare, as the spores are persistent in soil and may dust up for years and spread by Bedouin livestock. Using it near Baghdad is really dumb unless you want to take your countrymen with you.