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To: NickSE who wrote (102561)6/24/2003 1:49:03 PM
From: KLP  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Saddam and his followers WERE the WMD in Iraq....That gruesome story should be on the front pages of EVERY single responsible newspaper in the country and in the world.

Some here on the left have talked about "where is the outrage?" I will ask them...........WHERE is the outrage against Saddam and the other terrorists of the world?



To: NickSE who wrote (102561)6/25/2003 9:08:11 PM
From: NickSE  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
U.S.: Banned arms evidence in Iraq
msnbc.com

.....The more significant discoveries were related to Saddam’s attempts to rebuild chemical and biological arsenals like those he was known to have used during the Iran-Iraq War of the late 1980s, when he was supported by the U.S. government.

Sources told NBC News’ Jim Miklaszewski that within just the past week, U.S. investigators had found two shipping containers filled with millions of much more recent documents relating to chemical and biological weapons.

One of the documents, from 2001, was titled “Document burial and U.N. activities in Iraq,” the sources said. It gave detailed instructions on how to hide materials and deceive U.N. weapons inspectors, the sources said.

Other documents related to the concealment of VX nerve gas, the sources said.

The sources said U.S. troops also discovered about 300 sacks of castor beans, which are used to make the deadly biological agent ricin, hidden in a warehouse in the town of al-Aziziyah, 50 miles southeast of Baghdad, the capital. The castor beans were inaccurately labeled as fertilizer.

U.S. search teams have also been led to a site near Nasiriyah, a key Euphrates River crossing 200 miles south of Baghdad, where Iraqi informants said Scud missiles were buried.....