Kroblexskij
01-04-2005, 18:38
Coalition troops have found a Mosque containing the vast quantaties of the unidentified substance.
This is a spoof to see how people react to this situation
link comming later.
Kryozerkia
01-04-2005, 18:40
Oh no! They've discovered Hussein's secret stash of... sugar? *snicker*
(in before link)
Kroblexskij
01-04-2005, 18:42
heres (http://www.muckybutton.co.uk/spoof-news/story760.cfm) the damming evidence
highlight my first post :D unfortunatly not enough people posted for it to work.
Whispering Legs
01-04-2005, 18:44
I thought you meant this embarrasing situation...
Silence on anthrax proved costly
Iraqi official didn't disclose bacteria destroyed in 1991
By CHARLES J. HANLEY
The Associated Press
In early 2003, as war fever built in Washington, an Iraqi scientist faced a fateful choice.
Rihab Rashid Taha could try to lower the heat by finally telling U.N. inspectors what happened to Iraq's “missing” anthrax, or she could remain silent, rather than risk Saddam Hussein's wrath.
The microbiologist's dilemma, she has told U.S. interrogators, was that her team 12 years earlier had destroyed the lethal bacteria by dumping it practically at the gates of one of Hussein's main palaces, and the feared Iraqi despot might grow enraged at news of anthrax on his doorstep.
Taha chose silence in 2003, thus stoking suspicions of those who contended that Iraq still harbored biological weapons. Soon thereafter, two years ago this month, the United States invaded.
“Whether those involved understood the significance and disastrous consequences of their actions is unclear,” the CIA-led Iraq Survey Group says of Taha and colleagues in its final report on Iraq weapons hunting. “These efforts demonstrate the problems that existed on both sides in establishing the truth.”
The Iraqis claimed then that before the 1991 Gulf War they had made 2,191 gallons of anthrax. They said they destroyed all of it in mid-1991 at their bioweapons center at Hakam, 50 miles southwest of Baghdad.
The U.N. experts confirmed that anthrax had been dumped at Hakam. But they also found evidence that Iraq had produced an additional 1,800 gallons of anthrax.
Then-Secretary of State Colin Powell dwelled on an anthrax threat in his February 2003 speech seeking U.N. Security Council authority for war.
But the truth appears to lie elsewhere, according to a section of the Iraq Survey Group report.
Taha told interrogators her staff carted off anthrax from Hakam in April 1991 and stored it in a bungalow near the presidential palace at Radwaniyah, 20 miles west of Baghdad, the U.S. teams report.
Later that year the crew dumped the chemically deactivated anthrax on grounds surrounded by a Special Republican Guard barracks near the palace, the report says.
Through the years, Taha and other Iraqi officials denied that the “missing” anthrax had ever existed.
“The members of the program were too scared to tell the Regime that they had dumped deactivated anthrax within sight of one of the principal presidential palaces,” the Iraq Survey Group says.
The arms hunters' report also concludes, “ISG's investigation found no evidence that Iraq continued to hide BW (biological) weapons after the unilateral destruction of 1991 was complete.”
“We knew there was a lie,” Barton said, “but we jumped to the wrong conclusions.”