The Gloomberg Report

[MAC]

while you're at it seize their oil fields and sell the rights to capitalistic comapanies (http://www.drudgereport.com/flash2.htm)

US may seize Arab airports by force to attack Iraq: report
Mon Aug 12 2002 14:19:02 ET

BEIRUT, Aug. 12 (Xinhua)--Lebanon received a report from diplomatic sources saying that the United States would seize by force several airports in Arab states when it launches a war against Iraq, the An Nahar newspaper reported on Monday.

The report said that US President George W. Bush would unleash the military offensive in January 2003 as he has to wait the outcome of the midterm elections of the Congress in November. ``Bush prefers to have Arab support for his war to remove Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and the US forces would have facilities in several neighboring Arab airports,'' the report said.

''At any rate,'' it stressed, ``once zero hour comes, Bush will give the orders to use Arab airports by force for the military operation against Iraq if the need arises.'' Bush argued that without the US interference, the Arab countries, the Arab League and the UN Security Council would not have been able to oust the invading Iraqi troops from Kuwait in the 1991 Gulf War.

Meanwhile, the report revealed that the Bush administration has allowed Israel to strike back in the upcoming confrontation against Iraq if the Arab country fires Scud missiles at Israel like it did in 1991.

The report suggested that the Arab world should take the US war preparations against Iraq ``very seriously'' and recommended a diplomatic offensive by Lebanon to consolidate Pan-Arab camp.

Developing...

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This story sounds like hot air...but lets face it saudi Arabia is in this shit up past their nostrils,,,,,they are the dons of the muslim mafia.
It wouldn't surprise me if there was peace in the middle east in 5 years if we wiped out the arabs today. (mainly cause israel would own half of it and the other half would do business with them)

theMAC says:
Send in the fuckin Marines today!!!!!

[Asmodeus]

or, use that old addage:

Nuke'em till they glow. Then shoot'em in the dark.

I agree, there will be no peace if there are arabs around. Short of genocide- or close to it- I see no way around it.

*kicks back in his foldout chair by the campfire cooking hotdogs and looking to the horizon waiting for the fireworks to start*

[Koliedrus]

This will probably be one of the most unpopular threads I've ever started but that's never stopped me before. If you don't feel up to bad news, find your Back Button and use it now.




After being saturated with negative headlines on a daily basis for quite some time, I've become a bit desensitized when it comes to yet another kidnapping/homocide-bomber/terror-alert/market-dive/bankruptcy...

The following draws a line.

On the one hand you have a "known biological weapons facility" and government officials stating that the plant "may be producing a weapon-sized version of the lethal Ebola virus".

On the other, you have The Iraqi Ambassador to the UN stating, "There's nothing hidden in Iraq. There are no mass destruction weapons at all".

So, either One Hand is lying to justify an attack and scaring the living shit out of the world in doing so or...

The Other Hand doesn't give the slightest shit about how we die, as long as we shut up and die.


U.S. Spots Activity at Iraq Weapons Plant - Report
Wed Aug 14,12:27 AM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence agencies spotted activity last week at an Iraqi plant identified as a biological weapons production facility, The Washington Times reported in Wednesday edition.

"A convey of about 60 trucks was photographed by a U.S. spy satellite at a known biological weapons facility last week," the paper quoted U.S. intelligence officials as saying, adding that the site was located about six miles northwest of Baghdad.

"They're moving stuff in or out," an official familiar with the report told the paper. The official also noted that intelligence information about Iraq's weapons program was limited.

A CIA spokesman did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

The Washington Times report on the truck convoy near Taji followed a Washington Post report earlier this month that U.S. intelligence was looking for a suspected Iraqi biological weapons laboratory north of Baghdad.

The Post quoted U.S. government officials as saying the plant, with 85 employees, may be producing a weapon-sized version of the lethal Ebola virus.

President Bush has called Iraq "an enemy until proven otherwise" accusing Baghdad of developing weapons of mass destruction. Official U.S. policy has been to seek a "regime change" in Iraq, but senior officials, including Bush have sought to play down expectations of an imminent attack on the oil-exporting country.

Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations said on Tuesday that Iraq "is clear" of any weapons of mass destruction.

"There's nothing hidden in Iraq. There are no mass destruction weapons at all," Ambassador Mohammed Aldouri said in an interview on PBS's "News Hour with Jim Lehrer."



I tried to use the Map Thingie to locate Taji just so I could snag a visual aid for this but (lo and behold) the site is overwhelmed by requests. At least people are interested in geography again :)

That's my Gloomberg Report for today. Post your own as days go by, make comments on ones you read or create spin-off threads if you think it warrents deeper discussion.

Above all, try not to saturate yourself with all the bad shit going on.

Me? I'm gonna see if I can locate a cam pic Rizz and Slappy did before they got married :D

I'd say, "enjoy" but... you know what I mean....

[Billyman]

There IS shit going on. There IS ALWAYS shit going on. We can either ignore it or educate ourselves about it.

Thanks Kol. And will do.

[Mudflap]

How come Saudia Arabia doesn't get any press on all the flame fanning it does that keeps the middle east in a constant state of wildfire?

[MAC]

need I explain further?

[Koliedrus]

Next up: Iraq's response to Washington's accusation.

Soon to come: Washington's response to Iraq's response to Washington's accusation.



Iraq Shows Baby Milk Store at Reported Weapons Site
Tue Aug 20, 6:09 AM ET
By Huda Majeed Saleh

TAJI, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq showed reporters a warehouse stuffed with baby milk and sugar on Tuesday to repudiate a U.S. newspaper report that the building was being used to produce biological weapons.

Iraqi Trade Minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh met international media at a warehouse in the Taji area northwest of Baghdad, which U.S. intelligence officials quoted in the Washington Times newspaper last week said was a biological weapons facility.

But instead of weapons and sophisticated labs, reporters on Tuesday found baby milk and sugar which had been bought under Iraq's oil-for-food deal with the United Nations.

"They (Americans) are checking every movement in Iraq, but a satellite cannot tell real information," Saleh told reporters at the site. "This is rubbish information, actually rubbish information to convert baby milk and baby food and sugar to weapons of mass destruction."

President Bush has called Iraq "an enemy until proven otherwise," accusing Baghdad of developing weapons of mass destruction.

Official U.S. policy has been to seek a "regime change," widely interpreted to mean the United States would like to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

The Washington Times reported last week that a U.S. intelligence agency spy satellite had photographed a convoy of about 60 trucks at the building earlier in the month.

The Trade Ministry warehouse, which consists of three halls, on Tuesday contained boxes of powdered milk from Yemen, Vietnam, Tunisia and Indonesia and sacks of sugar imported from Egypt and India under the U.N. oil-for-food programme.

Iraq, which has the second largest oil reserves in the world behind Saudi Arabia, has labored under U.N. sanctions imposed after it invaded Kuwait in 1990. A U.S.-led coalition expelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait in the 1991 Gulf War.

"We started to move food from this warehouse to supply stores in provinces early this month, and more specifically on August 4 as we started to distribute food rations every two months," Saleh said.

"We have transported 2,500 tons of powdered milk in 187 trucks and not 60 trucks as the Americans said and we will continue (to do so)," he added.

"If they enlarge the satellite photographs they can compare boxes of the baby milk moved from this site as they were not covered and boxes here."

The warehouse, which was used to store meat before the 1991 Gulf War, was completely destroyed during the war. It was recently rebuilt by a French company.