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| Myers: U.S. Controls Terror Camp in Iraq |
| 2003-03-30 |
| American forces are searching a terrorist compound in northeastern Iraq that was probably the site where militants made a biological toxin, traces of which were later found by police in London, the Pentagon's top general said Sunday. But there's no link between Iraq and terrorism, say the peaceniks. Nope, none, nada, can't be proven, no reason to go to war, nope, nope. U.S. and British forces now control the compound, which belongs to the group Ansar al-Islam, said Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, describing it as a site ``where Ansar al-Islam and al-Qaida had been working on poisons.'' Pure propaganda, can't be, peaceniks told us so. Nope, nope. ``We think that's probably (from) where the ricin that was found in London came,'' he told CNN's ``Late Edition.'' ``At least the operatives and maybe some of the formulas came from this site.'' British police raided a London apartment in January and found traces of ricin, a powerful poison made from the beans of the castor plant. U.S. officials have said since shortly after that raid that they believed the poison and those arrested were linked to Ansar, which operated in a small enclave inside territory controlled by autonomous Kurdish factions in northern Iraq. U.S. officials said before the war that they had evidence that Ansar had tested chemical and biological weapons on livestock and possibly on people at the site. Tested on people? Find whoever did that, and nail 'em -- no need for a trial. U.S. and British aircraft and missiles pounded the Ansar compound for days, and U.S. AC-130 gunships also attacked before coalition and Kurdish ground forces went in, Myers said. The site has many underground tunnels to search ``and it may take us a week to exploit that,'' he said. Myers said officials were examining laptop computers and documents found there. Ricin is relatively easy to make from castor beans and highly deadly in small quantities. There is no treatment or antidote for the poison, which can take days to kill. Wonder how many peaceniks will recant if this turns out to be copper-bottomed truth? |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 Saddam or Bin Laden could be shown on live TV pouring bioweapons into a New York City reservior or planting explosives on the Golden Gate Bridge and some people will never change their minds. |
| Posted by: Someone who did NOT vote for William Proxmire 2003-03-30 15:48:03 |
| #1 Peaceniks will never recant, they will either deny or ignore any evidence contrary to their aims and biases. |
| Posted by: Tresho 2003-03-30 14:47:44 |