More Concerns About Weapons, Expertise Available to Iraqi Insurgents

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/oneworld/20041102/wl_oneworld/4536971741099401340&e=2


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WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov 2 (OneWorld) – More evidence of a major failure by the Bush administration to adequately prepare for the possibility of insurgency in post-war Iraq (news - web sites) has surfaced amid claims by some rebels that they have acquired chemical weapons and are preparing to use them against U.S. forces in the besieged Sunni stronghold of Falluja.


The claims, which come on the heels of the worst one-day losses for U.S. soldiers in more than six months, suggested that chemical-weapons specialists are lending their expertise to the guerrillas, a development that is causing growing anxiety in Washington.


Such a possibility was noted in the Central Intelligence Agency (news - web sites)’s (CIA (news - web sites)) Duelfer Report last month which detailed in an annex that a group of insurgents, called the “Al-Abud Network,” had worked with a civilian Iraqi chemist to build chemical weapons for use against Coalition forces.


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“(A)vailability of chemicals and materials dispersed throughout the country, and intellectual capital from the former WMD (weapons of mass destruction) programs increases (sic) the future threat to Coalition forces,” according to the Annex.

[leftchick]

1. Al Qaqaa being looted 6 months after invasion.....

<Similarly, the International Herald Tribune reported last week that a French journalist who visited the Al Qaqaa site more than six months after the fall of President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) had seen “vast supplies of explosives” being looted from bunkers.


“I was utterly stupefied to see that a place like that was pretty much unguarded and that insurgents could help themselves for months on end,” Sarah Daniel was quoted as telling the Tribune. She added that the looters who were loading truckloads of material from what had been the biggest explosives factory in the Middle East admitted that they, too were surprised, that no effort had been made by the coalition forces to close it off. >

[Dhalgren]

2. Excellent!

Now we have the insurgents right where we want them. Once they start using chemical weapons on our troops, everyone will realize that we are winning! :silly:

[clownskull]

5. It kind of reminds me of Kung Pow

Where Wimp Lo thinks that losing is actually winning.

Heh time for fun Wimp Lo quotes
"If you have an a** I'll kick it."
"Ohh, how did you like my face to fist technique."
"Now you'll see the power of my nuts to foot technique."

Ohhhh now I need to make some videos of * with voice overs. Then we'll have Chimp Lo. Squeaky shoes and all!

[BUSHOUT]

3. GAve it a 5. n/t

[maddezmom]

4. WaPo trolling DU for a story???

Looters Overran Iraq Arms Site (Muthanna desert complex)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x946093

:)

[Barrett808]

6. "the worst of America’s fears about WMD in Iraq will finally come true"

“The shortsightedness of this policy,” according to Roston, “is only making it more likely that the worst of America’s fears about WMD in Iraq will finally come true.”

[leftchick]

7. I can't help but feel with all of the warnings....

about the dangers, this proliferation is actually part of their plan. Eternal wars and all...:grr:

[maddezmom]

8. agree, never ending war

more contracts for * cronies. :eyes: