posted on February 16, 2003 11:32:20 PM new
DEBKAfile Special Intelligence Report
February 16, 2003, 2:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iraq-al Qaeda Partnership to Target Gulf Oil Fields
"The picture emerging from these developments is of a combined Iraqi-al Qaeda sabotage plan to synchronize the torching of Iraq-Saudi-Gulf oil resources with the onset of American military action against Iraq.
This threat, to which Mr. Blix and Dr. ElBaradei are oblivious, has brought forth direct action from the Bush administration in Washington, the US war command and its intelligence arms at home and abroad. When millions marched against war in hundreds of world cities Saturday, February 15, US military convoys were carrying American commando units into northern Iraq through the Turkish-Iraqi border crossing at Habur. They were on their way to deal with the threat to the oil fields."
posted on February 17, 2003 10:12:36 AM new
So, they are going in to protect the OIL FIELDS?!?!! Not the innocent population? Thought so, it is not about Saddam, it is about O-I-L. Why should we care about the oil fields, I thought it was the WOMD????
Wanna bet the find the WOMD's where these commandos HAVE BEEN?
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posted on February 17, 2003 10:27:13 AM new
mlecher,
Do you have any idea how much damage to the enviroment and human live those burning oil fields would do? It would last long after the war had ended, probably killing millions.
posted on February 17, 2003 10:51:18 AM new
Not half as much damage or half as many deaths as Texas during the Dumbya Years.
Like Dictator Bush cares....he quit Kyoto treaty, and relaxed pollution standards....the Oil smokes would defer attention away from these things and allow him relax them even more because....hey, look at Iraq a major pollution point, not me!.
He sheds no tears over the destruction of an environment, loses no sleep over the deaths of thousands. But whines like a baby at the sight of the destruction of a single ounce of OIL.
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Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Firemen, Police. We call them our heroes...but we pay them like chumps
posted on February 17, 2003 11:40:05 AM new
The burning of those oil fields would be an environmental disaster of titanic proportions. I may not be for this war [at this time] but I am for securing those oil wells if war is inevitable.
Just wish we would send in some commandos to get rid of Saddam and his horrid son so we wouldn't need to have an all out war.
As Martha would say...that would be a good thing.
Bet you all thought I would never agree with anything Bush did!LOL!
posted on February 17, 2003 12:30:32 PM new
The Kyoto treaty is a joke. If anybody had taken the time to read it was easy to see why no one should have signed it.
The Kyoto treaty completely exempts China and all other countries except the industrialized nations from environmental controls.
Mexico could pollute all it wants under the treaty as could China, All of Asia, India, All of Africa, much of the former eastern block.
The problem is all of these people who want the US to sign the treaty would be no where to be found when US citizens living on the Texas border are getting hit by Mexico's pollution ( as some are already), nor would they be around when companies in the US are forced to comply and they just move to Mexico or China.
This treaty wouldn't reduce pollution one iota, it would just shift it to third world countries who have no internal laws or regulation against pollution.
The Kyoto treaty was nothing more than a massive job exporting agreement for the third world.
posted on February 17, 2003 12:44:57 PM new
You don't sign an agreement because of what it makes you do and what others don't have to do.
You do it because it is the right and decent thing to do... That is all I want from my country.
I suppose you defend Bush for acting wrong and immorally because "everyone else is"
Such mentality and behavior should have been left in Kindergarten. SOME country needs to take the high road and be an example to the rest. Not a child's game of "you first"
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posted on February 17, 2003 02:02:40 PM new
bones - GREAT site. VERY interesting article, as well as the other related articles. Probably another reason for the high alert, this last time. I'm bookmarking this site. Thanks!!! None of the Bush haters will believe Saddam would EVER do this though.
Iraq neatly pre-empted Messrs Blix and ElBaradei's teams' hunt for weapons of mass destruction. Fearing those armaments would fall into American hands, Saddam last month sent his cousin, the Iraqi Minister of Trade, Gen. Aly Hassan Majid, to Damascus to obtain President Bashar Assad's consent for convoys loaded with chemical and biological materials and equipment smuggled out of Iraq to transit Syria en route for Lebanon.
Majid then traveled to Beirut to request formal permission from President Emil Lahoud. Next, on February 4, the Iraqi vice president Gen. Taha Yassin Ramadan called on Assad to arrange for the convoys to be secured on their way to their hiding places in north-eastern Lebanon.
Syrian foreign minister Farouk a-Sharah naturally omitted mention of this small service his country performed for Iraq when he launched his broadside against the Americans and Israel at the Security Council on Friday, February 14.
Syria is not concerned by the fact that a major portion of Saddam's prohibited substances, with their doomsday potential for hundreds of thousands of human beings, repose in a country in which central government control is at best feeble and in which at least three major terrorist groups, the Hizballah, radical Palestinian organizations and clusters of al Qaeda fighters, run loose. This dangerous nexus no doubt partially influenced the decision last week to place Washington, London, Jerusalem and Riyadh on high terror alert, since the possibility of these dangerous materials reaching al Qaeda cells outside Lebanon cannot ruled out by counter-terror experts.
