Positive test for terror toxins in Northern Iraq

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MSNBC.com tests reveal evidence of the deadly toxins ricin and botulinum at a laboratory in a remote mountain region of northern Iraq allegedly used as a terrorist training camp by Islamic militants with ties to the al-Qaida terrorist network.
MSNBC.COM’S TESTS were conducted over a two-day period at Sargat, an alleged terrorist training camp a mile from the Iraq-Iran border. The camp, set back in an isolated valley and surrounded by snowcapped peaks, was home to the radical Islamic militant group Ansar al-Islam, which counts among its some 700 followers scores of al-Qaida fighters.
In a Feb. 5 speech to the U.N. Security Council, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell showed a satellite photo of the Sargat camp and described Ansar al-Islam as “teaching its operatives how to produce ricin and other poisons.â€￾ U.S. officials have repeated the allegations in recent weeks.
In an operation timed to coincide with the war on Iraq, U.S. special operations forces have targeted Ansar al-Islam’s militants in northern Iraq. Hundreds of Islamists, including al-Qaida fighters who took refuge in northern Iraq after the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan, have been killed.
Although U.S. officials for months have leveled charges that the Ansar al-Islam and al-Qaida militants were producing poisons in northern Iraq, it wasn’t until this week that specialist American teams were able to gain access to the Sargat camp to test for traces of biological and chemical weapons.
Experts believe the Islamic group was producing the substances in the camp as both toxins can be created from everyday products and simple procedures.
 
People who are against the war will just bring up their argument that Saddam doesn't control the north. This won't change any minds.
 
Lezmaka said:
People who are against the war will just bring up their argument that Saddam doesn't control the north. This won't change any minds.
Not all the people who are against war are believing Saddam Hussein has not chemical weapons.
One could be against war in Iraq for several reasons, you know..

ciao,
Marco
 
Lezmaka said:
People who are against the war will just bring up their argument that Saddam doesn't control the north. This won't change any minds.

Ricin is ridiculously easy to make. Considering you can make it in your own house, it hardly counts as a serious chemical weapons program. Also, isn't it funny how every terrorist organization is somehow linked to Al Qaeda? Give me a break, I'm sure they all have contacts, being in the same business, but they're hardly working together.
 
Nagorak said:
Lezmaka said:
People who are against the war will just bring up their argument that Saddam doesn't control the north. This won't change any minds.

Ricin is ridiculously easy to make. Considering you can make it in your own house, it hardly counts as a serious chemical weapons program. Also, isn't it funny how every terrorist organization is somehow linked to Al Qaeda? Give me a break, I'm sure they all have contacts, being in the same business, but they're hardly working together.

Amen to that, I'm sick of hearing this. Its like looking at Microsoft, Corel and Adobe and assuming they're working together because they all sell software.
 
Also, isn't it funny how every terrorist organization is somehow linked to Al Qaeda?

I don't recall hearing that all terrorist organizations are linked to al-Qaeda. It says that some of Ansar al-Islam's members belong to al-Qaida, which is true, and it has been reported for months. I think you're confusing what is actually being reported with what you imagine the U.S. and the media is trying to do.

But if you really want to try and find a common link between all Islamic terrorist organizations, try reading up on Wahhabism, the "Islamic Reform" movement that basically attempts to convert all Islams to their version of the religion, and then cleanse the world of every other religion through force.
 
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