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Third Infantry Finds Chemical Weapons
CBN News ^
| March 26, 2003
| Paul Strand CBN News War Correspondent
Posted on 03/26/2003 12:45:20 PM PST by Freedomsfriend
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To: Freedomsfriend
Add this to the 6000 chem suits and masks they were hoarding because 'we' were going to use chem weapons on them.
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posted on
03/26/2003 2:47:27 PM PST
by
JustPiper
(Anti-War Protestors Are The Terrorist's Bodyguard!!!)
To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
Now you've gone and dashed my hopes of someday having him re-replace Hillary.
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posted on
03/26/2003 2:48:07 PM PST
by
brewcrew
(It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. - Jonathan Swift)
To: colorado tanker
Perhaps, but I think that the explanation for the contraband will come down to at least one, if not all, of these scenarios:
1. Russian mafia.
2. "Straw pruchases" by third countries (the Ukraine and Syria are likely bets, but I would not discount the French, either).
3. Bureaucrats who got a piece of the action and approved sales that shouldn't have been approved.
For me, the key is not what the Russians SAY or even DO in the UN. Instead, they key is what they do outside the UN.
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posted on
03/26/2003 2:49:24 PM PST
by
hchutch
("But tonight we get EVEN!" - Ice-T)
To: hchutch
the key is what they do outside the UN Agreed. And what they appear to be doing is trading weapons for cheap oil.
To: colorado tanker; Poohbah
But that doesn't make sense to me, particularly since cheap oil would mean they make less money - hard currency, I might add - off the Caspian Sea oilfields they have found. Plus there is whatever they find in Siberia.
Things were a large jumble in Russia for a while, and that sort of thing takes much longer to solve than to create. Rogue companies and Russian mafia connections are a lot more plausible than Putin crossing us with direct arms sales. He might be former KGB, but he is not stupid. And doing anything that would place him on the bad side of an enraged United States of America would qualify as stupid, as Saddam Hussein, Mullah Omar, and Osama bin Laden could testify to - if, that is, they are willing to come out of whatever rock they are hiding under to avoid ending up with a nasty case of dead.
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posted on
03/26/2003 3:06:11 PM PST
by
hchutch
("But tonight we get EVEN!" - Ice-T)
To: bluecollarman
I'm not accusing CBN of lying. Maybe the source is lying.
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posted on
03/26/2003 3:07:14 PM PST
by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
To: hchutch
And doing anything that would place him on the bad side of an enraged United States of America would qualify as stupid, as Saddam Hussein, Mullah Omar, and Osama bin Laden could testify to - if, that is, they are willing to come out of whatever rock they are hiding under to avoid ending up with a nasty case of dead.Heard it could be contagious, too.
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posted on
03/26/2003 3:07:30 PM PST
by
Poohbah
(Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
To: Pres Raygun
Why would the "made in Russia" part be less credible? If they would sell jammers and night vision goggles, why not chems?
To: concerned about politics
"Police arrested two Nobel Peace Prize winners along with more than 30 other people protesting on Wednesday near the White House against the U.S.-led war against Iraq."Jimmy 'Da Peanut Man' Carter and Yasser, perhaps? (had to ask)
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posted on
03/26/2003 3:14:41 PM PST
by
cake_crumb
(UN Resolutions = VERY expensive, very SCRATCHY toilet paper.)
To: DittoJed2
Why would the "made in Russia" part be less credible?Because he can make his own.
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posted on
03/26/2003 3:17:58 PM PST
by
Poohbah
(Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
To: hchutch
My understanding is that Russia re-sells cheap oil from Iraq to the West at market prices, making a nice profit. It really doesn't hurt their own sales, since they're selling everything they produce and their winter production is limited.
I know getting caught would be very damaging to Russo-American relations, but in hindsight I don't think the Russians, French and Germans ever thought they'd be caught. They dodged us for 12 years with 16 UN resolutions and knew they could block UNSC action. I don't think they ever thought the US would pull the trigger. But for 9-11, we probably never would have.
This stuff could have come from the Mafia or Syria, but I tend to doubt it. Kornet is Russia's most advanced anti-tank ground mount missile and they seem to be deploying it in numbers and far forward, indicating numbers beyond the Mafia's ability to supply or Syria's desire to give up.
To: All
Fox just had their embedded guy with the 3rd on ... no mention of this ...
To: Poohbah
My understanding is that the Russians sold a whole lot of stuff to Iraq and other mid-east nations during the cold war and probably beyond. If these chems were purchased before Saddam had the capability of making his own, they could easily have been stored up as well. Saddam's capability has increased since Desert Storm, but I think he is still behind Russia and is DEFINATELY behind the US.
To: Mr. Buzzcut
Question is...why didn't they ask him about it. It's already out there.
To: DittoJed2
My understanding is that the Russians sold a whole lot of stuff to Iraq and other mid-east nations during the cold war and probably beyond. If these chems were purchased before Saddam had the capability of making his own, they could easily have been stored up as well. Saddam's capability has increased since Desert Storm, but I think he is still behind Russia and is DEFINATELY behind the US.Actually, Saddam wanted to buy chemicals from Russia, but got turned down during the Cold War. That's why he worked so hard to get his own.
Seems Ivan didn't want to take a chance on non-controlled terrorists getting ahold of Russian chemicals and using them in Western Europe. That might have been enough to start World War III back in those days.
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posted on
03/26/2003 3:53:45 PM PST
by
Poohbah
(Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
To: Pearls Before Swine
I read the story about the Russia bio-chem program and they had some nasty bugs etc. The guy who designed a lot of it caught a bug and died a horrible death as a lab experiment.
I sure hope that stuff never finds its way into the open, but you know someday it will.
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posted on
03/26/2003 4:31:04 PM PST
by
ez
(Advise and Consent = Debate and VOTE!!)
To: Freedomsfriend
The Russians will sell anything to anybody. They have no morals. Never did. A nation of criminals.
This is the thanks we get for allowing them the pretense of being a world power. For all the loans, aid, know-how. They are Garbage!
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posted on
03/26/2003 5:08:42 PM PST
by
ffusco
("Essiri sempri la santu fora la chiesa.")
To: All
o'reilly discussed this with one of the military guys on his panel who had also heard the story and both said that they tried to confirm with pentagon but couldn't get anywhere
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posted on
03/26/2003 5:35:30 PM PST
by
JustinV
To: ffusco
Report: Russia Has Smallpox Biological Weapon
American Foreign Policy Council
August 23, 1999
American military scientists are developing defense vaccines against smallpox -- a disease wiped out in nature, but one that still threatens thanks to ongoing biological weapons programs.
Smallpox is caused by the variola virus. According to the Washington Times, "there are reports that Russia has created a biological weapon utilizing variola.
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posted on
03/26/2003 5:50:49 PM PST
by
honway
To: honway
Just heard on PmSNBC being discussed w/Lester Holt and a pentagon correspondent Jeannie Ohm.
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