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bemildred

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Sat Oct-04-03 10:10 AM
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Saddam rooked by North Koreans

More spin on the missing WMD. From the bottom:

It states that Saddam Hussein's regime had a clandestine
network of biological laboratories," Bush said. "They had a
live strain of deadly agent called botulinum. And he had
sophisticated concealment efforts. In other words, he's
hiding his program."

A network of two dozen laboratories and safe houses was
secretly set up and maintained by Iraqi intelligence services,
Kay said in his conference call. He said investigators have
visited the facilities and equipment in them was "suitable" for
chemical or biological weapons research and should have
been declared to the United Nations.

As for the botulinum, Kay said an Iraqi scientist, whom he did
not identify, had stored a single vial of the live toxin, as well
as a more virulent pathogen, in his kitchen refrigerator at
home in 1993. Kay said the scientist had small children and
grew fearful "after a couple of days," so he returned the more
toxic vial to his boss.

But Kay said the stored sample of botulinum was still "viable"
after a decade and thus could be used to create a biological
warfare agent. His report notes that the scientist passed a
polygraph about Saddam's plans to reconstitute a
bioweapons programs, and that he told investigators about
"a large cache" of microbe agents. Teams are "actively
searching for this second cache," Kay reported.

AZ Central

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jenk

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Sat Oct-04-03 10:13 AM
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1. 10 year old botulinum!!!!!!

:crazy:

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KharmaTrain

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Sat Oct-04-03 10:18 AM
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2. This Sounds More And More Like A Third World Program

I'll bet the Brazilians or Moldovans had more advanced programs. And we're paying how much for this in blood and capital?

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bluedog

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Sat Oct-04-03 10:20 AM
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3. St Ptete Times Fl

Had this as their MAIN Front Page Headline.....as if nothing else is going on in the world.....
this paper always has been right wing and why I only get it on weekends is for the store ads....
they called and asked me why I didn't want full weekly service and I told them their paper was way too far right leaning for me..

then they called back and said they would give me the paper FREE until the end of DEC to change my mind...I just said don't bother!!!

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psychopomp

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Sat Oct-04-03 10:20 AM
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4. Check out that first paragraph

Shrub acts like he is obsessed w/SH. One minute he is out of the picture, irrelevant, the next he is "hiding" something as if he were still active.

I am so sick of this @$$hole! Dumbya, just go away, m'kay?

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bemildred

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Sat Oct-04-03 10:25 AM
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5. Cross reference story:

http://www.democraticunderground.org/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=147698&mesg_id=147698

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oneighty

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Sat Oct-04-03 10:42 AM
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6. Botulism

Seems every year or so there is a "Botulism" fish and bird kill along our Lake Erie shore line. Never heard of a human becoming ill from it. Botulism--a natural event in many locals.

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chenGOD

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Sat Oct-04-03 11:05 AM
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7. A pathetic attempt to link NK and Iraq?

And how do you go from an article about North Korea and Iraq, to strictly Iraq?

WTF?

someone else on DU said it best: presstitutes.

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bemildred

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Sat Oct-04-03 11:15 AM
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8. Certainly pathetic.

Certainly an attempt to cover their asses.
This will never fly and they must know it,
even with the whore press swallowing it whole.

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