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diamond geezer
Jun 15, 2004, 01:06 AM
Ready for "discovery" before the US election, maybe?

link (http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=6/15/2004&Cat=4&Num=020)

TEHRAN (MNA) -ñ The UAE-based daily Al-Khaleej reported on Monday that Kuwaiti tariff officials have intercepted a truck loaded with radioactive materials in the Iraq-Kuwait border.

The daily quoted informed sources as saying that the radioactive control team from Kuwaitís Health Ministry discovered that one of the trucks belonging to the U.S.-led coalition forces was carrying heavy radioactive materials trucks. The trucks were headed for Iraq.

The daily said that such materials could only enter a country when there is permission from related bodies while the materials were secretly being carried to Iraq.

Security forces stressed that no contamination had been caused by the material.

The MNA reported for the first time the coalition forcesí suspicious transfer of WMD parts from Kuwait to Southern Iraq by trucks.

The possible presence of WMD in Iraq and its likely nuclear programs were the main U.S. pretext for attacking the country.

However, their failure to find weapons of mass destruction in the country and the continuing turmoil in Iraq questioned the legitimacy of the U.S. war against Iraq and their presence in the country.



Neserk
Jun 15, 2004, 01:16 AM
OMG! Why would this not surprise me???

Flowbee
Jun 15, 2004, 01:23 AM
Obviously, many people have speculated about this since before the war even started. I think Rumsfeld would have done this long ago--during the chaos of the first few months of battle--if they were going to. Also, I'm not sure how much trust I'm willing to place in the "Tehran Times" as a source.

As much as I dislike the war and the current administration... I'm not ready to buy this.

blackfox
Jun 15, 2004, 03:42 AM
While I largely agree with Flowbee on this...a three word phrase does come to mind...
Short Attention Span. Could be an Election ploy...wouldn't surprise me.

As far as the source, there is an excellent documentary playing in select cities called "Control Room" on the Al Jazeera News Network (I apologize for any mispelling)...suffice to say, both sides spin, so the truth is often somewhere in the middle...I will keep an eyebrow raised for now...

wwworry
Jun 15, 2004, 10:34 AM
It's unfortunate. I am not prepared to believe anything this administration says and I am not prepared to believe anything the Tehran Times says. What is one to do?

Note: I think this administration has thrown out so many lies and mis-information in a concerted attempt to inure people from thinking they will ever know the truth. After people have given up on facts they are only left with faith. Faith is easily manipulated; facts be damned.