HT Ray Robison

Gee, Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post must have been reading Ray Robison, Mark Eichenlaub, Scott Malensek, and perhaps even RBT.

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Our World: The second-worst option
By Caroline Glick [Updated Nov 14, 2006]

A week before the US Congressional elections The New York Times published a front-page story which all but admitted that Iraq's nuclear program had been active until March 2003, when the US-led coalition deposed Saddam Hussein. The Times report relayed concerns of officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency regarding captured Iraqi documents which the administration had posted on the Internet.

The documents in question contained Iraqi nuclear bomb designs that could be useful to rogue states like Iran which are currently working to build a nuclear arsenal. The Times article also reported that, in the past, the same Web site had published Iraqi documents relating to nerve agents tabun and sarin. They were removed after their content elicited similar concerns from UN arms control officials.

In response to the Times story an international security Web site run by Ray Robinson published a translation of a story that ran on the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Seyassah's Web site on September 25. Citing European intelligence sources, the Al-Seyyassah report claims that in late 2004 Syria began developing a nuclear program near its border with Turkey. According to the report, Syria's program, which is being run by President Bashar Assad's brother Maher and defended by a Revolutionary Guards brigade, "has reached the stage of medium activity."

The Kuwaiti report maintains that the Syrian nuclear program relies "on equipment and materials that the sons of the deposed Iraqi leader, Uday and Qusai… transfer[red] to Syria by using dozens of civilian trucks and trains, before and after the US-British invasion in March 2003." The report also asserts that the Syrian nuclear program is supported by the Iranians who are running the program, together with Iraqi nuclear scientists and Muslim nuclear specialists from Muslim republics of the former Soviet Union.

The program "was originally built on the remains of the Iraqi program after it was wholly transferred to Syria."

This report echoes warnings expressed by then-prime minister Ariel Sharon in the months leading up to the US-led invasion of Iraq that suspicious convoys of trucks were traveling from Iraq to Syria. Sharon's warnings were later supported by statements from former IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Moshe Ya'alon, who said last year that Iraq had moved its unconventional arsenals to Syria in the lead-up to the invasion.

ACCORDING TO the US Senate's Prewar Intelligence Review Phase II, which studied the prewar intelligence on Iraq's nuclear weapons program, in 2002, the US had learned from the Iraqi foreign minister that while Iraq had not yet acquired a nuclear arsenal, "Iraq was aggressively and covertly developing" nuclear weapons. The Senate report concluded that Saddam was told by his own weapons specialists that Iraq would achieve nuclear weapons capabilities "within 18-24 months of acquiring fissile material." [RBT's emphasis]

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HT Ray Robison

Gee, Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post must have been reading Ray Robison, Mark Eichenlaub, Scott Malensek, and perhaps even RBT.

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Our World: The second-worst option

A week before the US Congressional elections The New York Times published a front-page story which all but admitted that Iraq's nuclear program had been active until March 2003, when the US-led coalition deposed Saddam Hussein. The Times report relayed concerns of officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency regarding captured Iraqi documents which the administration had posted on the Internet.

The documents in question contained Iraqi nuclear bomb designs that could be useful to rogue states like Iran which are currently working to build a nuclear arsenal. The Times article also reported that, in the past, the same Web site had published Iraqi documents relating to nerve agents tabun and sarin. They were removed after their content elicited similar concerns from UN arms control officials.

In response to the Times story an international security Web site run by Ray Robinson published a translation of a story that ran on the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Seyassah's Web site on September 25. Citing European intelligence sources, the Al-Seyyassah report claims that in late 2004 Syria began developing a nuclear program near its border with Turkey. According to the report, Syria's program, which is being run by President Bashar Assad's brother Maher and defended by a Revolutionary Guards brigade, "has reached the stage of medium activity."

The Kuwaiti report maintains that the Syrian nuclear program relies "on equipment and materials that the sons of the deposed Iraqi leader, Uday and Qusai… transfer[red] to Syria by using dozens of civilian trucks and trains, before and after the US-British invasion in March 2003." The report also asserts that the Syrian nuclear program is supported by the Iranians who are running the program, together with Iraqi nuclear scientists and Muslim nuclear specialists from Muslim republics of the former Soviet Union.

The program "was originally built on the remains of the Iraqi program after it was wholly transferred to Syria."

This report echoes warnings expressed by then-prime minister Ariel Sharon in the months leading up to the US-led invasion of Iraq that suspicious convoys of trucks were traveling from Iraq to Syria. Sharon's warnings were later supported by statements from former IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Moshe Ya'alon, who said last year that Iraq had moved its unconventional arsenals to Syria in the lead-up to the invasion.

ACCORDING TO the US Senate's Prewar Intelligence Review Phase II, which studied the prewar intelligence on Iraq's nuclear weapons program, in 2002, the US had learned from the Iraqi foreign minister that while Iraq had not yet acquired a nuclear arsenal, "Iraq was aggressively and covertly developing" nuclear weapons. The Senate report concluded that Saddam was told by his own weapons specialists that Iraq would achieve nuclear weapons capabilities "within 18-24 months of acquiring fissile material." [RBT's emphasis]

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HT Dr. Terry Law's World Compassion Ministries

World Compassion Terry Law Ministries is the organization that Iraqi Gen Sada is working with to bring his message to the American people.

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The Fight Ahead

Most pundits agree—the American people sent a message with the recent election that they feel the Democrats would do a better job than Republicans in handling our nation’s affairs. Whether this will prove true remains to be seen, but for better or worse, we can anticipate changes in the way our government pursues foreign and domestic policy. One of these changes will no doubt be the ongoing fighting in Iraq and perhaps the way we are prosecuting the war on terror.

A recent article I read presented some interesting information on why it’s important for the Western world to find solutions for Islamic fundamentalism. In a nutshell, Mark Steyn argues that Islamic fascism threatens to fill a void in population among socialist European countries through immigration and higher birth rates—a trend that will dramatically reshape the political face of Europe. He argues that it’s only a matter of time unless current trends change.

This might seem like a far-out interpretation of demographic trends—doomsday thinking by a paranoid right-wing numbers-jockey. However, I challenge you to take the time to read the article for yourself and measure the validity of his warning. Let's take a few minutes to look at an abreviated version of his concerns.

First off, let’s look at Europe’s socialization. During the years of the Cold War, NATO allies stood opposed to the communist juggernaut, the USSR, having banded together for mutual defense. Yet the countries of continental Europe now seem to embrace what they once stood united to oppose. The ascension of the European Union, with its many restrictions, is a perfect example of the rise of what is called “democratic socialism.” This type of socialism lacks the former-USSR’s dictatorial style and looming threat, but the similarities between communist Russia and the socialistic democracies of Europe are surprisingly clear at an ideological level.

In other words, many of them have become versions of that which they once fought.

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