08-20-2002, 12:28 PM
Gah Damn, I figured the government would follow it's normal pattern and wait a week to ten days to do this. They're waisting no time at all. Dubya want's his war real bad.
U.S. INTELLIGENCE agencies had reason to suspect that the facility, in a part of northern Iraq not controlled by President Saddam Hussein’s government, was a kind of laboratory for chemical and biological weapons activity that included testing on barnyard animals and at least one man, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
U.S. officials believe the terrorists tested a biological toxin known as ricin, a deadly poison made from the castor bean plant.
The Pentagon has reviewed possibly taking military action because any time there is intelligence about production of weapons of mass destruction all options are considered, including military, a U.S. counterterror official said in Washington.
Stay tunned folks.
U.S. INTELLIGENCE agencies had reason to suspect that the facility, in a part of northern Iraq not controlled by President Saddam Hussein’s government, was a kind of laboratory for chemical and biological weapons activity that included testing on barnyard animals and at least one man, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
U.S. officials believe the terrorists tested a biological toxin known as ricin, a deadly poison made from the castor bean plant.
The Pentagon has reviewed possibly taking military action because any time there is intelligence about production of weapons of mass destruction all options are considered, including military, a U.S. counterterror official said in Washington.
Stay tunned folks.

