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Politics : Homeland Security

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To: Snowshoe who wrote (615)11/20/2001 7:32:08 PM
From: Snowshoe  Read Replies (1) of 827
 
The question is, were these journalists killed because they found out about the Sarin? From the previous article...

El Mundo correspondent Julio Fuentes, who was last night reported dead after a convoy of journalists was attacked on the road to Kabul, found 300 of the phials at an abandoned al-Qaida base known as Farm Hada, 20 km south of Jalalabad.

His report, published yesterday, stated that they were in boxes of 10 which bore, in Russian cyrillic script, the words "SARIN/V-GAS". The phials were about seven centimetres long and contained a clear, yellowish liquid.


And this...

Colleagues Mourn Slain Journalist
dailynews.yahoo.com

Cutuli was killed the same day Corriere ran a story in which she reported the discovery of vials in a box marked ``sarin,'' the nerve gas, in a camp believed to have been abandoned by Osama bin Laden (news - web sites).

``The article on the nerve gas was for us a scoop,'' Corriere's editor-in-chief, Ferruccio De Bortoli said. ``But no scoop is worth a life.''
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