June 18, 2004


Help?

An interesting story, from a reader who sent me an email...can anyone out there with (or who has) Lexis/Nexis access come up with anything on this:

So, I'm having a small problem. On Monday or early Tuesday I read a news report on some blog LIKE The Agonist, that compiles information from various sources, about an American convoy that was stopped at the Kuwait-Iraq border by Kuwaiti forces because their sensors detected a very radioactive cargo.
So would that be like pre-positioning pre-Convention "radioactive cargo" in Iraq?

Anyone?

posted by Jo Fish on 06.18.04 at 12:26 AM





Comments:

Must have been this:

Via CURRENTS of AlterNet Forum (http://forums.alternet.org/guest/motet?show+-uimQLU+-ilad+Currents+1127+-25- )

U.S. Trucks Carrying Radioactive Materials Intercepted In Iraq-Kuwait
Border

TEHRAN (MNA) -* 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 Kuwait*s 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.


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


Kuwait refused to allow a radioactive material-bound truck to enter
the country as demanded by the US army, Kuwait Times reported Sunday.

Kuwaiti customs department on Thursday impounded four trucks on route
to Iraq for suspicion that they were loaded with radioactive material.

Customs officials refused to open the truck, and insisted that it
should not move before American military personnel and Kuwaiti
security officers arrive at the scene.
more....


http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=2230


The border official, who declined to be named, could not confirm that
50 trucks were turned back but told AFP *any truck that shows a
security violation is sent back. Everyday many trucks go back.*

Al Rai daily reported on May 28 that customs officials stopped scrap
trucks from Iraq after one of them was tested positive for *enriched
uranium.*"


http://www.jordantimes.com/Mon/homenews/homenews7.htm


Note that radioactive material is trying to cross the Iraq border
into Jordan too - this report does not say who's transporting it.

Ban on scrap from Iraq recommended amid concern over radioactivity

"*About 10 to 15 trucks carrying scrap from Iraq enter Jordan daily
and many others are turned back because the load they carry contains
pieces of military equipment or traces of radioactivity,* the
official said in a telephone interview.

Al Arab Al Yawm newspaper reported Sunday that border officials
turned back 50 trucks carrying scrap from Iraq after military and
other experts tested them for radioactivity

more...Why is this going to Jordan??? and Where is this Nuclear
radioactive stuff coming from???

http://www.kuwaittimes.net/archive_en/sun /


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posted by: Lurch on 06.18.04 at 12:18 PM [permalink]



Lurch,
Those were great articles. I remember back in April we tried to sneak some WMD material in through Basra and they got caught then also. It looks like this bunch will resort to anything to justify this fiasco in Iraq. Even to planting WMDs if they can't find them on their own. Do you think this was to be their October suprise? Or are they going to thaw out Osama's corpse and parade it around for a photo op?
Geezee . . . what a bunch of asshats.

posted by: Lowell on 06.18.04 at 02:44 PM [permalink]



I think it was one step in a cascading series of "accomplishments" begnning with the "capture" of Osama, and ending with - du lieber Gott - a full-fledged terror attack somewhere around October 25th or so, in reprisal for the "capture" of Osama, and would necessitate the imposition of martial law, temporary suspension of the elections until the period of National Emergency had passed, and the quick passage of an Enabling Act (which has already been written, according to several different sources in Congress.)

posted by: Lurch on 06.18.04 at 03:30 PM [permalink]



Odd, they didn't suspend the elections for Lincoln's second term. I don't see how they could get away with it now. That is not to say they might not try it.

Rumors are flying. Crashcart out, Guilliani in. I think Rudy would be an idiot to run as Shithead's running mate. If he has any political asperations he would avoid this administration like the clap.

Rummy has got to go and Asscrack is becoming a bigger liability by the day. Meanwhile . . . Reagan is still dead and Cheney and Bush stand by their assertion that Saddam had something to do with 9/11. Of course these neo-clowns will believe anything their fearful leader tells them.

posted by: Lowell on 06.18.04 at 03:44 PM [permalink]



Let's not forget that back in 1864, the Southerners, who are one of the most ideological of the forces driving the Repub- I mean the Fascist Party today, were unable to prevent the elections, because they were more overt in their attempts to destroy the union than they are today.

posted by: Lurch on 06.18.04 at 06:57 PM [permalink]



There was radioactive material inside Iraq that was sealed by the UN weapons inspectors. That material is missing because it wasn't secured and some of it has showed up in Europe.

There is also some really nasty medical radiation scrap that got shipped out. The medical stuff is bad because it is highly radioactive and would be useful for a "dirty bomb".

There was was a problem with medical scrap in Mexico more than a decade ago. Some of the wrought iron made in Mexico was ready to "glow in the dark".

Not enough people on the ground to secure the mounds of dangerous garbage that Saddam spent his ill-gotten gains on.

posted by: Bryan on 06.18.04 at 08:43 PM [permalink]



You missed the point of the original report, Bryan. This was a cargo of radioactive "something" in an American convoy, leaving Kuwait, entering Iraq, stopped by Kuwaiti border guards.

posted by: Lurch on 06.18.04 at 11:54 PM [permalink]



It was marked red cross material and the Red Cross would not okay it...same red cross that complained about ABU...

A reuters reporter got offed near ABU on the timeline also. I think they wanted to use chem precursors as plants, and use actual chem weapons -limited amount- on prisoners, release them and trail them to 'discover' Iraqis who got sick from "trying to use bioweapons..."

It would be acceptable collateral damage to them...

Who was it here that first listed Altanmia? I've posted that name many a time since. My WSJ search had them as purchase agent for precursors...

Someone else purchased entire access, said they also listed nuke material transfers on their description...

posted by: Mr.Murder on 06.19.04 at 04:19 AM [permalink]






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