War on Terrorism

[Work in Progress]

Yod, you're killin' me with the quote at the end of your post. LOL.

Ted, you are more than welcome. I hope you get the hang of it and posting gets easier for you. God bless you brother.

[Guest idolsmasher]

we go. we win. we rebuild. we leave

America will not be leaving Iraq anytime soon. Everywhere America goes it leaves military bases manned with troops.

No plans to leave

Ask Germany and Japan about our "Empire"

You still don't get it do you! It's not about an old style colonial empire, strategies have changed, it is empire by client states, by proxy if you will, governments who will bow down to American imperial power and the industrial/military complex.

[Guest yod]

You don't "get it". They do it gladly for American aid money.

You're just jealous that no one wants Canadian businesses moving in. (is that an oxymoron?)

But back to the original topic of this thread:

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Iraq Minister Says Saddam's WMD Carefully Hidden

Thu January 29, 2004 10:17 AM ET

By Anna Mudeva

SOFIA, Bulgaria (Reuters) - Iraqi foreign minister Hoshiyar Zebari said Thursday Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction had been carefully hidden, but he was confident they could be discovered.

"I have every belief that some of these weapons could be found as we move forward," Zebari, an Iraqi Kurd, told a news conference in Sofia. "They have been hidden in certain areas. The system of hiding was very sophisticated."

The United States and Britain cited Iraq's possession of chemical and biological arms as their main reason for invading the country in March and toppling Saddam. But no such weapons have so far come to light despite intensive searches.

Former chief U.S. weapons hunter David Kay said Wednesday "we were almost all wrong" about the issue and it was "highly unlikely that there were large stockpiles of deployed militarized chemical and biological weapons" in Iraq.

But Zebari, on a visit to Bulgaria, said: "We as Iraqis have seen Saddam Hussein develop, manufacture and use these weapons of mass destruction against us. He hasn't denied that."

Zebari was apparently referring to the use of chemical weapons by Saddam's forces against Iraqi Kurdish villages in the late 1980s.

He reiterated the position of Iraq's U.S.-appointed Governing Council that Saddam, accused of sending thousands of Iraqis to mass graves, should be tried by an Iraqi court.

The former Iraqi president was captured in December near his home town of Tikrit, after evaded U.S. forces for months.

Zebari said Saddam's trial should be fair and transparent because it would be a test for Iraq's new rulers to prove their adherence to the supremacy of law.

Asked to comment on Turkey's fears Iraqi Kurds might seek a breakaway state, Zebari said there were no plans to divide Iraq.

"We have proved over the last nine months that all the Iraqis from the North to the South are committed to the national unity. ... No group, no party has any plans to undermine Iraq's unity or territorial integrity," he said.

President Bush said Wednesday he was also committed to a "territorially intact" Iraq.

The Kurds, who fought alongside U.S. forces to topple Saddam, are one of Iraq's best organized ethnic groups after enjoying U.S-protected autonomy since the 1991 Gulf War. They have presented a plan to the Iraqi Governing Council that grants significant autonomy to the Kurdish region.

[ted]

Oh my troubles A news anchor????

I'm not sure that the world is ready for my kind of journalism. Although I will be seeking new employment when I get back. Thanks River, but much like the major news sites, I'm not as informed as I might want to be. Only difference is that I admit it instead of making up stories to fill gaps.

Anybody hear about the 7 soldiers killed here recently? they didn't just stumble upon a poor innocent farmers barn.

t.

[Guest idolsmasher]

You don't "get it". They do it gladly for American aid money.

Well they do it for aid, but not all do it gladly. Ever heard the term "selling your soul?" Sometimes they just do it or else....

[JohnS]

Wisdom for the day

Proverbs 16:9 We can make our plans, but the LORD determines our steps.

Proverbs 21:1 The king's heart is like a stream of water directed by the LORD; he turns it wherever he pleases.

[Guest idolsmasher]

Speaking of Russia:

Russia reportedly plans large-scale manoeuvres of its nuclear forces

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian nuclear forces are preparing for a massive exercise that would be their largest in more than 20 years, a newspaper reported Friday.

The one-day manoeuvres set for next month would involve test-firing several ballistic missiles and taking almost the entire fleet of Russia's strategic bombers into the air in a simulation of a nuclear conflict, said the business daily Kommersant.

Official comments on the exercise have been sketchy. The chief of Russia's Strategic Missile Forces, Col.-Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov, was quoted by the Interfax-Military news agency on Thursday as saying the exercise would involve several launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles in various regions of Russia but gave no further details.

Kommersant said the manoeuvres would be the largest since the 1982 exercise of Soviet nuclear forces dubbed by the West as the "seven-hour nuclear war."

In the exercise planned for February, Russian Tu-160 bombers are set to test-fire cruise missiles over the northern Atlantic, and other strategic bombers are to conduct flights over Russia's Arctic regions and test-fire missiles at a southern range near the Caspian Sea, the newspaper said.

In addition, Russia's strategic forces are scheduled to launch military satellites from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and Plesetsk launch pad in northern Russia, Kommersant reported.

A system warning of an enemy missile attack and a missile defence system protecting Moscow will also be involved in the exercise, which President Vladimir Putin is set to attend, the newspaper said.

Putin has tried to revive Russia's military might, eroded by post-Soviet funding shortages, and the ambitious exercises are certain to further bolster his popularity in the run-up to the March 14 presidential election which he is expected to win in a landslide.

"Pre-election manoeuvres," Kommersant acerbically dubbed the exercises. It said Moscow had warned Washington about the exercises, describing them as part of efforts to fend off terror threats.

[Guest yod]

I was worried until I saw that this was reported by the Canadian press

Just when we thought that genie was back in the bottle?

"And it's a hard rain gonna fall..."

[traveller]

Wisdom for the day

Proverbs 16:9 We can make our plans, but the LORD determines our steps.

Proverbs 21:1 The king's heart is like a stream of water directed by the LORD; he turns it wherever he pleases.

[Guest idolsmasher]

I was worried until I saw that this was reported by the Canadian press 

If you check at the beginning there is a little credit (AP) which means "The Canadian Press" got the story from another source called the "Assosiated Press". You better start worrying!

"And it's a hard rain gonna fall..."

Maybe he was a prophet! BTW, you never hear anymore about his conversion to Christianity, what's up with Bob these days?