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DRUDGE SIRENS: CIA REPORT WARNS AL QAEDA SET TO USE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, OBTAIN NUKES
The WashingtonTimes ^
| 6/3/03
| Matt Drudge
Posted on 06/02/2003 9:52:11 PM PDT by Pro-Bush
WASH TIMES: Islamist extremists linked to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden have a wide variety of potential agents and delivery means to choose from for chemical, biological and radiological or nuclear (CBRN) attacks, said the four-page report titled Terrorist CBRN: Materials and Effects...
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; breakinghard; herewegoagain; nothingfollows; nukes; obl
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To: MattAMiller
only has a four page report A bad sign. Serious reports are short. When they've got nothing to say it takes volumnes to say it. The "weight" of the information is inversely proportional to the weight of the report. Usually. If that's the case here, we got big problems.
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posted on
06/03/2003 12:37:10 AM PDT
by
El Gato
To: FairOpinion
Bump Elite ;)
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posted on
06/03/2003 12:37:39 AM PDT
by
JustPiper
(Joe Phillips for Congress- http://www.josephcphillips.com/index.asp)
To: FairOpinion
I wouldn't worry about the roadmap. It's all contingent upon the Palestinians stopping terror attacks, and that will happen when they are all dead. Really? You must have missed that clause that states the PLO will have a state by 2005.
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posted on
06/03/2003 12:38:10 AM PDT
by
yonif
To: El Gato
They are NOT gong to give them a State. It is just a test to see if they can stop the terrorism. And when they can't, the same stuff as we have now will continue, and possibly escalate.
Either that or Palestine will indeed become a state, but have it taken away from them if they don't eliminate terrorism.
Either way, it is a test.
To: yonif
"PLO will have a state by 2005"
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NOT a requirement, only a goal.
To: FairOpinion
MSNBC: U.K. officials defend WMD evidence
Blair, Straw deny charge they manipulated Iraq report
June 2 -- The question being asked in some circles about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction: Where are they? Is this a massive case of intelligence failure?
ASSOCIATED PRESS
EVIAN, France, June 2 British Prime Minister Tony Blair rejected charges that his government had doctored evidence on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, appealing Monday for patience so that those looking for arms can continue their search.I stand absolutely, 100 percent behind the evidence, based on intelligence, that we presented people, Blair said during a news conference on the sidelines of the Group of Eight summit here.
ACCUSATIONS THAT his government had manipulated evidence were completely and totally false, Blair said.
Blair and President Bush insisted in the run-up to the war that the existence of evidence of a powerful arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq justified military action against Saddam.
But the failure of American and British troops so far to uncover new evidence that Saddam had banned weapons is creating a serious political problem for Blair in Britain and threatens to undermine his international credibility.
Its not a question of admitting we were wrong or saying that there wasnt the evidence, because the evidence was there, Straw told British Broadcasting Corp. radio. The evidence is overwhelming.
He then referred to a report by chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix last March that cited outstanding disarmament tasks yet to be carried out by the Iraqis although inspectors also said they found no chemical, biological or nuclear weapons in 3½ months of searching.
The most significant finds reported by inspectors were a dozen artillery shells filled with mustard gas and fewer than 20 empty chemical warheads for battlefield rockets.
Ive got in front of me the 173 pages of the unanswered disarmament questions which Dr. Blix put before the Security Council, Straw said. Our point is this: Look, if Saddam had nothing to hide why had he failed over a 12-year period to provide answers to these questions?
All the evidence, categorical evidence in this ... document and the circumstantial evidence of Saddams own behavior pointed to one end, that he did indeed, in the words of the Security Council, pose a threat to international peace and security, Straw said.
Some of the people who are now saying they feel duped or that we should find further evidence to justify decisions which we openly took three months ago are actually trying to change the basis on which those judgments were made, he said.
Also in this article at the beginning, is have a little patience, we were going off the UN list, now we're going at it our way.
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posted on
06/03/2003 12:42:49 AM PDT
by
JustPiper
(Joe Phillips for Congress- http://www.josephcphillips.com/index.asp)
To: JustPiper
There will be plenty of proof. Then we can rub the liberals noses in it.
To: FairOpinion
Pray we live to do that, even the few scattered here ;)
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posted on
06/03/2003 1:01:59 AM PDT
by
JustPiper
(Joe Phillips for Congress- http://www.josephcphillips.com/index.asp)
To: Pro-Bush
Gotta keep that fear level up, it's been yellow for a week now. Ya'll be sure and scarf this up, back to plastic and duct tape. Blackbird.
To: FairOpinion
Hey, maybe that's why he left the country for awhile. ;-)
To: FairOpinion
But of course as long as the FBI is watching Hatfill, we have nothing to worry about. (/sarcasm) Wouldn't it be nice if they were just using Hatfill as a public decoy? Saying loudly that Hatfill is the anthrax guy, no doubt about it.... so that the real anthrax perpetrators will let their guard down and think they got away with it. And then they might make mistakes that lead us to them. I'm hoping.
To: JustPiper; FairOpinion; Angelus Errare; ganeshpuri89; All
As long as we're all connecting the dots... Here's a dot:
PENTAGON REPORTERS ASSIGNED GAS MASKS TODAY
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Reporters who cover the Pentagon (news - web sites) were assigned gas masks as a security precaution in case the US military's main headquarters comes under chemical attack.
The Pentagon handed out 25,000 emergency gas masks to prepare Pentagon workers for possible chemical or biological terror attacks. That completes about one-third of the effort started in late February, when they began training an average of several hundred people a day in use of the emergency escape hoods.
Here is a link to the post: Pentagon Reporters Assigned Gas Masks
You don't suppose there's any connection to this talk of Al Qaeda being willing to use chemical weapons on us, now do you? Naaaah... completely unrelated events. < /sarcasm>
To: yonif
Let's give them a stateWell, at least it's consistent...
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posted on
06/03/2003 2:54:25 AM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
To: Mo1
Couldn't have gotten them from Iraq - everyone knows Bush lied and Iraq didn't have WMD. (sarcasm)
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posted on
06/03/2003 3:23:22 AM PDT
by
Peach
To: ladyinred
Not only never forget but the intelligence agencies can't win. If they don't warn us, Congress and everyone else wants investigations. If they do warn us each time they see the danger increasing, people yawn and ignore it.
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posted on
06/03/2003 3:24:50 AM PDT
by
Peach
To: Pro-Bush
When they tell us we complain, when they don't we say, "why didn't you warn us if you knew something was about to happen?" Our president told us that the government had many hints prior to 9-11 but nothing specific enough about which to do anything. This was followed by unrelenting criticism which continues to this day. It is a rock-solid cinch that should anything happen in the way of terrorist acts, the critics will wail that the government put out so many warnings that no one cared any more. This is from the, "you-can't-win-department."
To: ganeshpuri89
OK, that makes it more real...
From the last link u posted.
Among the documents seized was a direction to purchase bacillus anthracis, the bacterium that causes anthrax disease. Most of the new information comes from handwritten documents and computer hard drives seized during the March 1 capture of Khalid Sheik Mohammed
Shudder.
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posted on
06/03/2003 3:31:02 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
To: Grampa Dave
It is a very good thing I wasn't drinking coffee.
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posted on
06/03/2003 3:31:56 AM PDT
by
ASA Vet
("Those who know, don't talk. Those who talk, don't know." (I'm in the 2nd group.))
To: sinkspur
Is this the same CIA which warned us of the 9-11 terrorist attack?
To: Pro-Bush
There's nothing new here. Nothing. This is the same thing we've been reading and hearing since shortly after 9/11.
However on the topic itself, al Qaeda (and it supporters) have been saying since the get-go that they intend to use WMD in America. And in truth that's the only way they can accomplish their goals.
In fact the only effective measure at their disposal is to somehow import one or more nukes (not dispersion devices) and to detonate them in U.S. cities.
If there is any planning capabilitiy left, that's what al Qaeda would be attempting.
Everything else (including bios and chem and suicide bombers in shopping malls) is entirely a sideshow and inconsistent with al Qaeda's past words and deeds.
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posted on
06/03/2003 3:59:13 AM PDT
by
angkor
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