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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 01:16 AM
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Report: U.S suspects Iraqi WMD in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley
OK, I have my doubts about a Drudge-linked "WorldTribune.com" site's newsworthiness, but thought I'd post it here for us to chew over anyway.

What's the matter... did the Syria and Iran Product Roll-Outs fail? Back to the Lebanon for us, where we've had so much prior success?

Besides, weren't they going to wait until around the 11th of next month to roll this product out? Sigh...

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_1.html

Excerpt:

U.S. intelligence suspects Iraq's weapons of mass destruction have finally been located.

Unfortunately, getting to them will be nearly impossible for the United States and its allies, because the containers with the strategic materials are not in Iraq.

Instead they are located in Lebanon's heavily-fortified Bekaa Valley, swarming with Iranian and Syrian forces, and Hizbullah and ex-Iraqi agents, Geostrategy-Direct.com will report in Wednesday's new weekly edition.

U.S. intelligence first identified a stream of tractor-trailer trucks moving from Iraq to Syria to Lebaon in January 2003. The significance of this sighting did not register on the CIA at the time.
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Newsjock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 01:21 AM
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1. They're flailing
We're throwing out potential next targets with abandon, waiting to see which one(s) gain traction with CNN and Faux. As soon as one of them does, poof, that's where our troops will be dying next.
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PennyLane Donating Member (240 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 01:34 AM
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2. Well Well Well,
What an absolutely fantastic reason to invade Lebanon! Take control under the guise of anti-terrorism. Give the border lands to Israel to build settlements. One BIG Middle Eastern happy family! Isn't this nice? We'll proabably be in there by January. Anyone want to bet on this???:mad:
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rooboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 01:36 AM
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3. I think I'll hold on to my $50, thanks.... n/t
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Aidoneus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 01:40 AM
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6. US invading, probably not
occupying Iraq has too much of the military tied down to take on Lebanon, Syria, and Iran as well (for ANY attack on Lebanon would not be a limited engagement).

But I wouldn't put it past Israel to be allowed to re-invade, however. I heard a crazy rumour going around that there was a Lebanese family that was found to have been left un-terrorized by Israel's last several decades of war against Lebanon, they want to get that guy while they still can and make it unanimous.
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Maple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 01:38 AM
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4. Hey...they coulda been furniture movers
"U.S. intelligence first identified a stream of tractor-trailer trucks moving from Iraq to Syria to Lebaon in January 2003. The significance of this sighting did not register on the CIA at the time."

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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 01:39 AM
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5. Nah...
the WMD's are in a warehouse in Jersey City, right next to the Holland Tunnel.

I thought everyone knew that.

Anyway, aside from howcum the "significance of this sighting" was lost on our protectors, I thought Iranis, Syrians, and Hebiollah were the "enemy." Shouldn't this endless war on terrorism concentrate on some supposedly known and serious terrorists?

I guess not.

I mean, what's the sense of going to war with someone who might actually shoot back. That's just about as sensible as asking howcum the CIA didn't register on these truck shipments. I mean, we're all about terrorists, aren't we? Keeping on our toes around the world...

IS ANYBODY IN CHARGE HERE?



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OldCurmudgeon Donating Member (585 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 02:55 AM
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8. ooohhhh...so THAT's where they got to!
the WMD's are in a warehouse in Jersey City, right next to the Holland Tunnel.

They put them in the same warehouse as Jimmy Hoffa? What an amazing coincidence! Alert Geraldo!
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 12:37 PM
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19. I thought they burried the WMDs in the end zone of Giant Stadium
Right next to Hoffa.
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The Stranger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 01:37 PM
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24. I thought Hoffa was buried under Soldier Field?
In the end zone, next to Jimmy Hoffa.
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 01:29 PM
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23. Originally posted by TreasonusBastard
Edited on Tue Aug-26-03 01:35 PM by rocknation
the WMD's are in a warehouse in Jersey City, right next to the Holland Tunnel. I thought everyone knew that.

If they're next to the Holland Tunnel, they're in DOWNTOWN Jersey City, you alleged New Jerseyite! Downtown Jersey City isn't part of Jersey City any more than Riverdale is part of the Bronx. I ought to know--I lived there until September 8, 2001, and spent September 11 waiting for the phone company to show up. They did--just in time to see the second tower get hit. Two of my co-workers who lived there couldn't get home for three days.


rocknation




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dutchdemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 02:41 AM
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7. See you on the Dark Side of the Moon....
Both the newspaper that printed the article and the source it quotes are owned by Sun Myung Moon, that freak who owns the Washington Times and thinks he is Jesus.

Moonies... strange thing.

Google "bush" "moonies" and you are even in for more of a space trip.

-----------

Bush Praises Moon as 'Man of Vision'
BUENOS AIRES (Reuter) - The South Korean evangelist Sun Myung Moon launched a new Spanish-language newspaper for the whole of Latin America this weekend, with the backing of guest George Bush who praised Moon's respect for editorial independence.

The former U.S. president, guest speaker at a banquet late Saturday to launch Moon's new publication "Tiempos del Mundo" (Times of the World), was full of praise for the controversial evangelist's best-known newspaper, the Washington Times, and referred to Moon as "the man with the vision."

Bush then travelled with Moon to neighboring Uruguay Sunday to help him inaugurate a seminary in the capital Montevideo to train 4,200 young Japanese women to spread the word of his Church of Unification across Latin America.

Moon already owns a major newspaper, bank and hotel in Uruguay and is buying up land in the Argentine province of Corrientes, where he plans to construct what his followers call "ideal cities".

SNIP

http://www.perkel.com/politics/moonies/bush.htm
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trapper914 Donating Member (796 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 02:57 AM
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9. Through the war...
...I've never seen any legitimate news source follow up or confirm ANYTHING printed by the World Tribune. I can't put too much creedence in this one.
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symbolman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 02:58 AM
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10. You can clearly see
Elvis as the lead driver in the convoy ---
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 03:10 AM
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12. How special. this freakin WMD thingy is a huge JOKE
Bush is a JOKE

so is his Presidency, a fucking JOKE

and he actually thought he was doing it right, Bwahahahahahaha
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 01:22 PM
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22. I think Liberace was sitting
next to Elvis.

Sounds like the CIA is on top of their game.
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Trajan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 03:10 AM
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11. I smell Leo Strauss .....
On Richard Perle's lapels ....

I dont suppose this report was cooked up by the Office of Special Plans, eh ? ...

AMAZING how the world get's shoehorned into the pitifully small world depicted in the PNAC blueprint ...

Its fucking MAGIC .....
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Sideways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 01:54 PM
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29. Gawd Trajan Shoehorned Is The Perfect Word
I have been searching for the right word for a few days and shit fire you just nailed it.

Gawd damn these bastards are nitwits. I mean really this shit is so fucking transparent it should be called Operation Clingwrap.

I smell Leo Strauss emanating through Perles rotten teeth.

Yuck and more yuck. Yo Richard don't you have the money to get those fangs polished?
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remfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 06:46 AM
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13. Geostrategy-Direct
Google cached page

http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:2T0t4h77RkQJ:worldwatchdaily.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/home.sa/a/5472+Geostrategy-Direct&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

GEOSTRATEGY-DIRECT INTELLIGENCE BRIEF
Saddam's best weapon:
Human shields
Hussein to force civilians into massive groups around likely targets

Posted: August 22, 2002
2:00 p.m. Eastern

Editor's note: WorldNetDaily brings readers exclusive, up-to-the-minute global intelligence news and analysis from Geostrategy-Direct, a new online newsletter edited by veteran journalist Robert Morton and featuring the "Backgrounder" column compiled by Bill Gertz. Geostrategy-Direct is a subscription-based service produced by the publishers of WorldTribune.com, a free news service frequently linked by the editors of WorldNetDaily.
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shirlden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 07:04 AM
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14. As round and round we go
where the shit stops....no one knows

:argh:
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Festivito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 12:29 PM
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15. This was reported without questioning on today's newscast.
I just can't remember if it was on NPR or as I walked by the TV. Little doubt that the Righties want to place the spectre of "it was already found" into the cavernous skulls of the mindless listeners.

Either that or they want to attack Lebenon. Small country. W* could then get back into flight uniform and declare it over, again.

He looks better in a flight uniform than as a president, I'll say that for him.
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alcuno Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 12:32 PM
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16. I heard that 3 months ago.
"The significance of this sighting did not register on the CIA at the time."

What does "register on" mean?
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 12:35 PM
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17. Bekaa Valley has nasty connotations
This is a way to go to war with Syria without crossing the Syrian border. They declare war on the Bekaa Valley, bomb the shit out of it, and send in some National Guardsmen to bury mutilated bodies.

Instant victory. This could be the new product for September.
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ewagner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 01:47 PM
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27. GIVE THAT MAN/WOMAN A CIGAR!
Right on the money.
<sarcasm key on>
Terrorist victory on the cheap!

So we piss off Syria! Big deal!

The worst Syria can do is cut off intelligence on Al Queda!

(oh, wait, they've already done that)

<sarcasm key off>
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 12:36 PM
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18. I'm sure they are keeping our old bar stool warm in Beruit
The people in Beruit so thoroughly enjoyed the last time our troops visited, I'm sure they can't wait for another chance to show us that 'special welcome' again...

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The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 12:58 PM
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20. Always Nice To Start The Afternoon With A Good Laugh
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PurityOfEssence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 01:07 PM
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21. I have strong reason to believe WMDs are in Rym Brahimi's bedroom
and being a safety minded and magnanimous sort, I believe I may be forced against my will to go through her underwear drawer. I don't know if strip searching will be necessary, but I can bring myself to the task out of grave concern for our national safety...

Duty calls, you know...
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ewagner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 01:49 PM
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28. A true partiot
...above and beyond the call of duty

...conspicuous valor......Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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moondust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 01:45 PM
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25. Pin the tail on the donkey
is the ScrubBoy's favorite game.
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markses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 01:45 PM
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26. Absolutely preposterous
Only a fool would even entertain this nonsense.
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ElsewheresDaughter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 05:35 PM
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30. ahhh Mossad
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Hobarticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 05:38 PM
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31. Can't prove it, or disprove it...
Smells like bullshit to me.
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donotpassgo Donating Member (867 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 06:28 PM
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32. "WE KNOW WHERE THE ARE...
They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.”

~Donald Rumsfeld, March 30, 2003

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tinnypriv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 06:40 PM
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33. HEADLINE TRANSLATION SERVICE:
"We hate Syria"
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newyorican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 06:41 PM
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34. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
whew!
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