It may have taken 18 years, but the U.S. has captured Abu Abbas, the mastermind of the 1985 Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking. Abbas is wanted for the murder of wheelchair-bound Leon Klinghoffer, who was dumped overboard still in his chair.
U.S. troops and the intelligence community are also seeking out Abdul Rahman Yasin, wanted for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Yasin is yet one more terrorist known to have gained “asylum” in Saddam’s Iraq.
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bq. “In the midst of the War in Iraq, the City of Peoria, Arizona, has declared war on the First Amendment by ordering one of its citizens to cease flying his American Flags.”
This is so incredibly sad. So as Brian says, it’s ok to burn a hundred flags, but not to fly them?
U.S. Marines have uncovered what is believed to be weapons-grade plutonium.
U.S. Marines have located a complex of tunnels underneath an Iraqi nuclear complex–apparently missed by U.N. weapons inspectors–discovering a vast array of warehouses and bombproof offices that could contain the “smoking gun” sought by intelligence agencies, reported the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
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Chief Warrant Officer Darrin Flick, the battalion’s nuclear, biological and chemical warfare specialist, said radiation levels were particularly high at a place near the complex where local residents say the “missile water” is stored in mammoth caverns.
“It’s amazing,” Flick said. “I went to the off-site storage buildings, and the rad detector went off the charts. Then I opened the steel door, and there were all these drums, many, many drums, of highly radioactive material.”
More proof of an increasingly incompetent and irrelevant U.N.? Or perfectly innocent?
This underground discovery could still test to be perfectly legitimate and offer no proof of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. The CIA encouraged international inspectors in the fall of 2002 to probe Al Tuwaitha for weapons of mass destruction, and the inspectors came away empty-handed.
Time will tell as the materials are tested.
Iraq is free from Saddam’s tyranny.
Dayna has the play by play. WND has a summary.
But of course the Iraqi people didn’t wish to be freed from torture and tyranny, or they would have done it themselves, right?
It never ceases to amaze me how people can find ways to amuse themselves, even during times of danger, blood, and death.
Thanks to Mark for the pointer to this photo gallery of USA Today photography Jack Gruber, who is using his PowerBook G4 12″ to send pictures to the main office.
I still want one!
Now that U.S. forces own the Iraqi capital, the Hindustan Times believes the dictator has already fled Baghdad.
Reuters notes that NPR is reporting U.S. Marines have discovered 20 BM-21 missiles loaded with sarin and mustard gas. The Marines were working, alongside members of the 101st Airborne, a mop-up operation behind Army units that had taken the Baghdad International Airport.
Let’s see: Operation Iraqi Freedom began a little over two weeks ago. Coalition forces have discovered numerous weapons caches wherein NBC suits and antitoxin vaccines were stored, over the weekend coalition forces discovered canisters which may contain chemical WMDs (still being tested), and now the Marines have come across the BM-21s.
United Nations weapons inspectors, on the other hand, were in Iraq for eight years, and discovered nothing?
“This regime change brought to you by the new United Nations: Ineffective. Inadequate. Irrelevant.”
(Thanks, Ricky!)
UPDATE: WorldNetDaily is reporting that the presence of sarin has been detected and soldiers and civilians are being decontaminated. (11:53 A.M.)