Iraq thwarted in smuggling WMD into Kuwait

DougMD · 10-02-2003, 09:59 AM

This is from Drudge. I won' t necessarily believe anything until it is confirmed. But I would love to see Hip, and all the whining liberal democrats who signed the resolution eat their shoes!

Kuwait foils smuggling of chemicals, bio warheads from Iraq
Associated Press
Kuwait City, October 2

Kuwaiti security authorities have foiled an attempt to smuggle $60 million worth of chemical weapons and biological warheads from Iraq to an unnamed European country, a Kuwaiti newspaper said on Wednesday.
The pro-Government Al-Siyassah, quoting an unnamed security source, said the suspects had been watched by security since they arrived in Kuwait and were arrested " in due time." It did not say when or how the smugglers entered Kuwait or when they were arrested.

The paper said the smugglers might have had accomplices inside Kuwait. It said Interior Minister Sheik Nawwaf Al Ahmed Al Sabah would hand over the smuggled weapons to an FBI agent at a news conference, but did not say when.

Government officials could not be immediately reached for comment.

Iraqi Interior Minister Nouri Al-Badran met on Tuesday with Sheik Nawwaf and discussed cooperation between the two countries in security matters. His visit is the first by an Iraqi interior minister to Kuwait since 1990.

CalHunter · 10-02-2003, 10:49 AM

That would be a very interesting news conference indeed.

Stickemup · 10-02-2003, 01:17 PM

I guess that helps answer the question of where the weapons are. I' m sure this is just one of many, many smuggling operations.

DougMD · 10-02-2003, 01:24 PM

I have to stress the fact that this is, as yet, unconfirmed. Lately, I want the nth degree of confirmation because of how many times we' ve heard we found WMD before, only to find that we haven' t. This was on Drudge, but I haven' t seen it elsewhere as of yet, which is odd because of how important Iraq' s WMD' s are.

loner · 10-02-2003, 01:42 PM

i sure would like to see it confirmed!

Muddyemms · 10-03-2003, 08:53 AM

Gang, this first showed up on one of the message boards that I moderate. I emailed the link to Drudge.

Tony Snow, on Sean Hannity' s radio program yesterday, said that the British press had picked up on this as well. The Brits, Sky News, probably, wouldn' t do that unless they felt it was credible. Sky News has its own sources inside Kuwait, ones who probably know about this.

Also, the byline is an Associated Press one, out of Kuwait City. They wouldn' t risk their rep unless it was credible, as well.