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2004-07-21 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Frank G 2004-07-21 09:40|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Drudge has 3 different source links, including Denver Post

Posted by Frank G 2004-07-21 9:41:25 AM|| 2004-07-21 9:41:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 but do they all trace back to the same Al Sabah article?

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-07-21 9:41:56 AM|| 2004-07-21 9:41:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Denver Post link is overwhelmed, but it looks likely all lead back to Al Sabah...I could believe chem/bio warheads, but nukes? Suspicious they were buried under concrete....

Posted by Frank G 2004-07-21 9:44:28 AM|| 2004-07-21 9:44:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Interior Ministry dismissed as "stupid" a report in a local newspaper on Wednesday that said three nuclear missiles had been found near the town of Tikrit.
A senior U.S. military official told reporters he had no information on the report in the newspaper al-Sabah. He said officials were checking the report. Asked by Reuters about the report, a spokesman at the Interior Ministry said: "It's stupid."

LOL - no diplospeak there

Posted by Frank G 2004-07-21 9:45:41 AM|| 2004-07-21 9:45:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 It's too early to "find" WMDs. They can only "find" WMDs after the January elections. If Iraq has a 'legitimate', elected government when WMDs are found, then it can find them everywhere -- without ANY threat that any member of the UN Security Council could use EXISTING Security Council resolutions to interfere with Iraq OR demand the US leave immediately.

It doesn't make much sense on the surface, but it goes back to decisions the Security Council made during the Cold War, covering many peripheral issues surrounding nuclear, chem and bio weapons.

The US, and now Iraq, are following a bizarre but ritualized dance, finding, then utterly ignoring and concealing WMDs in a systematic fashion, much to the unofficial chagrin of France, China and Russia.

Posted by Anonymoose 2004-07-21 9:59:39 AM|| 2004-07-21 9:59:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 longer earlier post on Pg 2 - please delete this one

Posted by Frank G 2004-07-21 10:00:22 AM|| 2004-07-21 10:00:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I don't know amoose - but it certainly would explain why that keeps happening. It's an interesting theory.

Posted by Anonymoustoo 2004-07-21 10:27:29 AM|| 2004-07-21 10:27:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 So the Interior Minister calls it STUPID? Is that STUPID that it was made public now, or is it a STUPID report itself?

Posted by BigEd 2004-07-21 11:00:22 AM|| 2004-07-21 11:00:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Sure the report of Nukes is fishy but does that mean they didn't find 3 missles with interesting looking warheads?

Posted by danking70 2004-07-21 12:53:05 PM|| 2004-07-21 12:53:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Here's a interesting tidbit: The report could not be authenticated by the interior ministry or the national security department, but the paper noted Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiar Zibari made a surprise request recently to Mohammed el-Baradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, to resume inspections for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Huuummmmm

Posted by Steve 2004-07-21 2:52:38 PM|| 2004-07-21 2:52:38 PM|| Front Page Top

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