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King Abdullah: Al Qaeda WMDs Came From Syria

Jordan's King Abdullah revealed on Saturday that vehicles reportedly containing chemical weapons and poison gas that were part of a deadly al Qaeda bomb plot came from Syria, the country named by U.S. weapons inspector David Kay last year as a likely repository for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

"It was a major, major operation. It would have decapitated the government," King Abdullah told the San Francisco Chronicle. Jordanian officials estimated that the death count could have been as high as 20,000 - seven times greater than the Sept. 11 attacks.

Abdullah said that trucks containing 17.5 tons of explosives had come from Syria, though he took pains not to implicate Syrian President Bashir Assad in the al Qaeda plot, saying, "I'm completely confident that Bashir did not know about it."

In his testimony before Congress last year, Mr. Kay said U.S. satellite surveillance showed substantial vehicular traffic going from Iraq to Syria just prior to the U.S.attack on March 19, 2003 attack.

While Kay said investigators couldn't be sure the cargo contained weapons of mass destruction, one of his top advisors described the evidence as "unquestionable."

And
Foiled Al Qaeda Attackers Caught Red-Handed with WMDs

Two members of an al Qaeda cell connected to top terror master Abu Musab al-Zarqawi have been caught in Jordan with chemical weapons and poisonous gas for a planned attack that Jordanian officials say would have killed up to 20,000 people.

The officials told the London-based newspaper al-Hayat on Friday that the al Qaeda plotters planned to launch a WMD attack against a Jordanian Military Intelligence installation, the US embassy in Amman and a government building in the country.

According to the Israeli newspaper Maariv, the al Qaeda terrorists managed to smuggle three cars packed with explosives into Amman. Jordanian security forces found a chemical charge in one vehicle.

"The bomb, had it been detonated, could have affected people in a one kilometer radius and cause the deaths of up to 20,000 people," Jordanian officials told Maariv.

How many times do liberals have to be proven wrong before they admit it?

We knew Saddam had WMD, we knew he was not complying with UN resolutions ordering him to turn them over and/or destroy them and provide proof they were destroyed. He was given dozens of chances to prove he was complying and he refused. We know that those WMD may have gone to Syria during the liberation of Iraq.

And now we know some of the rest of the story.

I hope the response from the left is not "the CIA is behind this!" but instead "President Bush was right about WMD, we apologize."
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michaelmichael From: [info]michaelmichael Date: April 18th, 2004 01:22 am (UTC) (Link to this entry)
The left make me sick:(
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mightyrighty From: [info]mightyrighty Date: April 18th, 2004 01:31 am (UTC) (Link to this entry)
I hope the response from the left is not "the CIA is behind this!" but instead "President Bush was right about WMD, we apologize."

Oh, that can't happen. I'd fall over from a heart attack, then I'll be dead. *nono*


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josparke From: [info]josparke Date: April 18th, 2004 01:43 am (UTC) (Link to this entry)
Holy Crap! Why isn;t the rest of the media reporting this @_@
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topi From: [info]topi Date: April 18th, 2004 01:55 am (UTC) (Link to this entry)
Because, there are no WMDs silly!
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josparke From: [info]josparke Date: April 18th, 2004 01:59 am (UTC) (Link to this entry)
*confused*
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josparke From: [info]josparke Date: April 18th, 2004 02:14 am (UTC) (Link to this entry)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3635381.stm

More from BBC, for both Topi and RH!
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reality_hammer From: [info]reality_hammer Date: April 18th, 2004 02:18 am (UTC) (Link to this entry)
The liberal media in the United States is obviously confused.

Their template has the following stories to be aired this week:

Anti-Bush "news" stories about meetings in 2001.
Anti-Bush "news" stories about Woodward's book.
Anti-Bush "news" stories about Iraq.
Anti-Bush "news" stories from the Kerry campaign.

They're all shaking their heads and wondering what to do about this real, actual "news" that isn't on their agenda.

Maybe if they ignore it, it will go away!
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mightyrighty From: [info]mightyrighty Date: April 18th, 2004 02:29 am (UTC) (Link to this entry)
Well, that sums it up nicely.
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From: (Anonymous) Date: April 19th, 2004 12:21 am (UTC) (Link to this entry)
Its ironic that no one has noticed that USA is using chemically toxic, radioactive depleted uranium weapons in Iraq.

Maybe now that US soldiers are coming home contaminated, we'll hear something about it:
http://news.google.com/news?q=us%20soldiers%20contaminated%20uranium
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reality_hammer From: [info]reality_hammer Date: April 20th, 2004 04:16 am (UTC) (Link to this entry)
It is depleted uranium. It is less toxic and less radioactive than uranium in its natural state.

Don't forget, vitamin A is "toxic", too!
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From: (Anonymous) Date: April 20th, 2004 06:43 am (UTC) (Link to this entry)
I guess you're also comfortable around agent orange, DDT and asbestos dust.

The USA, UK and NATO have used depleted uranium weapons because of their extreme effectiveness in piercing tank armor.

Since the countries involved have vested military interests, I tend to trust empirical information such as US soliders coming back sick and testing positive for depleted uranium in their blood, rather than the fact someone put the adjective "depleted" in front of the name for nuclear power generation waste products:

'Six Iraq war veterans charged yesterday that the Army ignored their complaints about uranium poisoning from U.S. weapons fired during combat.

"We were all healthy when we left home. Now, I suffer from headaches, fatigue, dizziness, blood in the urine, unexplained rashes," said Sgt. Jerry Ojeda, 28
...
The six soldiers ... were recently tested by an independent physician, Dr. Asaf Durakovic, a former Army doctor and nuclear medicine expert. ... He found traces of depleted uranium in their bloodstream, with four registering high levels.

After their return from Iraq, "the Army was unfortunately not cooperative when they asked for testing,"
...
Once fired, DU shells melt, vaporize and turn to dust.
...
The soldiers said the uranium apparently mixed with sand and dirt in Iraq, then entered the soldiers' bloodstream after they inhaled it.

Veterans started reporting health problems as a result of DU shells in 1991, after the first Gulf War. Since then, the debate over the use and effects of depleted uranium munitions has escalated.

Some experts believe the nuclear component used in warfare is practically harmless, while others blame DU for cancers and other illnesses.'

http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/041004/b01p10uranium.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/181138p-157306c.html


Here is a Feb 2004 news story about a suppressed World Health Organisation report, which indicates that the chemically toxic, radioactive, depleted uranium weapons used in Iraq pose long-term health risks:

http://www.sundayherald.com/40096
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reality_hammer From: [info]reality_hammer Date: April 20th, 2004 05:05 pm (UTC) (Link to this entry)
I guess you're also comfortable around agent orange, DDT and asbestos dust.

Properly handled, sure.

Despite bandying about words like "nuclear" and "toxic" the left has not been able to show any credible link between use of depleted uranium ammunition and health problems.

You can claim a conspiracy, you can claim suppressed evidence, you can claim anything you like...but what you can't show is evidence linking depleted uranium to any adverse health conditions.

Read some facts about depleted uranium from a respectible source.

Uranium-238 becomes DU, which is 0.7 times as radioactive as natural uranium. Since DU has a half-life of 4.5 billion years, there is very little decay of those DU materials.


Note that FAS includes links to both pro and anti-DU sources on that page.
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