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Now Sky News is banner headlining it with a new Jordanian estimate of the potential casualties four times greater than last weeks. Last weeks reports mentioned VX, which is, I believe, about as nasty as those things come. IMHO, this new push on the report is probably related to British politics in that Blair is being hit very hard with the spurious where are the WMDs argument. He may have some friends at Sky News who are willing to unshackle a story which, if proven true, should scare the daylights out of everybody, but especially the Brits and other Europeans.
FReeper Paul Atreides Post Reply Private Reply To 47 View Replies To: elfman2 Yes, Ive read several of those articles as well as commentary and speculation. This sounded like a story rehash, but then I interpreted last Sunday to mean yesterday. Curious, however, that the estimated potential casualties is now 4X the earlier story.
The officials said they had arrested an unspecified number of al-Qaida suspects in two raids in late March and early April. Last week, officials said four other terror suspects believed linked to the same conspiracy were killed in a shootout with police in Amman. Government officials have said the suspects plotted to detonate a powerful chemical bomb targeting Jordans secret service and use poison gas against the prime ministers office, the United States Embassy and other diplomatic missions. Had the chemical bomb exploded, it could have killed at least 20,000 people and wrecked buildings within a half-mile radius, the officials have said. They said the suspects, who allegedly entered Jordan from Syria, have confessed that the plots were hatched by Jordanian militant Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, thought to be a close associate of al-Qaida boss Osama bin Laden.
Post Reply Private Reply To 64 View Replies To: Dog If that is correct then Zarqawi has his hands on chemical weapons and has them in Iraq. Sounds so far like more mundane chemicals rather than a military chemical weapon.
Jordan is walking a very fine line between the islamists on one side and us on the other. If they did in fact break up a plot that would have killed 80,000 people the media would be all over it. Besides, why would the islamists want to kill 80,000 Jordanians, many of whom actually support the islamists?
These Islamic names are particularly frustrating in that regard because they all seem to blend into one or two generic forms! I would have assumed that, but maybe this story will get some legs in the general press, and it will cause some thinking.
Toby Keith Post Reply Private Reply To 25 View Replies To: katana Prediction: With each day that goes by the WMDs move a little closer to reality. GW, you gonna spank them Dems like they never been spanked before! The Democrat Party is a traitor to our great nation and must be totally destroyed at the polls this year!
Waiting for Bimbo Eruption Post Reply Private Reply To 89 View Replies To: areafiftyone Chemical weapons in the hands of Al Qaeda? These sophisticated weapons did NOT come from a state that was known to produce chemical weapons that was also known to fund terrorists and hate America. These weapons came from marauding Bedouins who live in caves and eat camel dung.
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