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Offline Hangtime

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Ruh Roh.. think this one through.
« on: February 14, 2003, 11:25:32 PM »
muddle through this with me..  this is from powells presentation.

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Zarqawi, a Palestinian born in Jordan, fought in the Afghan war more than a decade ago. Returning to Afghanistan in 2000, he oversaw a terrorist training camp. One of his specialities and one of the specialties of this camp is poisons. When our coalition ousted the Taliban, the Zarqaqi network helped establish another poison and explosive training center camp. And this camp is located in northeastern Iraq.

(Picture of camp shown.)

The network is teaching its operatives how to produce ricin and other poisons. Let me remind you how ricin works. Less than a pinch — image a pinch of salt — less than a pinch of ricin, eating just this amount in your food, would cause shock followed by circulatory failure. Death comes within 72 hours and there is no antidote, there is no cure. It is fatal.

Those helping to run this camp are Zarqawi lieutenants operating in northern Kurdish areas outside Saddam Hussein's controlled Iraq. But Baghdad has an agent in the most senior levels of the radical organization, Ansar al-Islam, that controls this corner of Iraq. In 2000 this agent offered al Qaeda safe haven in the region. After we swept al Qaeda from Afghanistan, some of its members accepted this safe haven. They remain there today.

Zarqawi's activities are not confined to this small corner of north east Iraq. He traveled to Baghdad in May 2002 for medical treatment, staying in the capital of Iraq for two months while he recuperated to fight another day.

During this stay, nearly two dozen extremists converged on Baghdad and established a base of operations there. These Al Qaeda affiliates, based in Baghdad, now coordinate the movement of people, money and supplies into and throughout Iraq for his network, and they've now been operating freely in the capital for more than eight months.

Iraqi officials deny accusations of ties with al Qaeda. These denials are simply not credible. Last year an al Qaeda associate bragged that the situation in Iraq was, quote, "good," that Baghdad could be transited quickly.

 


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ok, we know AQ is in baghdad and has a camp up country. we know saddam has WMD, we know this cell is trained to handle and deploy WMD. we know that AQ considers transiting iraq a piece of cake.

now. assuming the reason saddams has not (afawk) already dropped the big sack of anthrax into zarquai's lap.. whats gonna stop saddam from tossing the ball to him the moment he becomes convinced we're commin in?

yuck.

sleep tight!
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Offline medicboy

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« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2003, 12:12:45 AM »
Whats to stop him from giving the terrorist the ball anyway.  It seems pretty clear to me that one of our first targets is going to be these camps and their headquarters in Bagdad.   9-11 wasn't the big finish people think it was, it wasn't the begining either.  We are just in the middle of the story and the climax is still to come.

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« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2003, 04:13:57 AM »
Those two arguments basically sum up the Iraqi problem.

If we provoke him, VMDs might hit us. It's quite likely.

If we don't, he might wage a war by proxy by supplying terrorists. No one knows the likelihood of this.

Decisions, decisions.