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Re: Newsbits: (was Re: The War etc)
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Sat, 2 Aug 2003 06:03:19 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti wrote:
??? Or it may not have.
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The Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee said al-Qa’ida remained a
“significant threat” to Britain, after hearing that the terrorist network may
still have the loyalty of more than 17,000 militants in up to 60 countries.
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??? Or they may not have that.
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In a report that raises questions about an important part of the
justification for war, MPs said the campaign in Iraq might have “enhanced the
appeal of al-Qa’ida to Muslims living in the Gulf region and elsewhere”.
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??? Or it might not have.
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snip!
They said: “We cannot conclude that these threats have diminished
significantly, in spite of regime change in Iraq and progress in capturing
some of the leaders of al- Qa’ida. Those that remain at large, including
Osama bin Laden, retain the capacity to lead and guide the organisation
towards further atrocities. Al-Qa’ida has dangerously large numbers of foot
soldiers and has demonstrated an alarming capacity to regenerate itself.
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How exactly were they looking to draw their conclusions? This article is
basically opinion.
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US expert promises WMD ‘surprises’
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3115035.stm
David Kay, a special adviser to the CIA, said solid progress was being made,
but would not be drawn on whether any actual weapons of mass destruction
(WMD) had been found.
snip!
A former chief weapons inspector at the UN, Mr Kay was sent to Iraq by the
CIA to lead the search for weapons of mass destruction.
He stressed that the search had switched from sites identified by the
coalition before the war as potential arms plants to areas picked out by
Iraqis themselves.
It’s fascinating how little we really know about Saddam -- our man in Iraq
for years!
You know what’s interesting about that last bit? For one, you have a former
UN weapons inspector, now a CIA man, digging for the goods to appease an
international audience -- and not Hans Blix backed by the U.N. Why should
the international community expect a CIA guy to deliver the undoctored
evidence? You have to admire the CIA, they did it right -- they hired an
expert in weapons detection to discover the sorts of the things that would
and would not be plausible to other weapons inspectors. Two, things being
discovered now have no relevance to what was known before the war.
Knowledge is not retroactive -- Shrub did not know these things before he got
the jones for Iraqi oil, he was merely hoping that nobody would notice.
Third, unless the evidence produced is truly compelling and somehow tamper
proof, without an international committee of inspectors overseeing the
process the findings will never be believed.
Get ready -- the circus is coming!
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Thank you for the warning, Doctor Spin.
JOHN
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| Conflict 'may have driven Muslims into arms of al-Qa'ida' (URL) The war to topple Saddam Hussein may have damaged the campaign against international terrorism by driving Muslims into the arms of al-Qa'ida, an all-party committee of MPs said (...) (21 years ago, 1-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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