Comments on: Why Syria Should Be Next (And Why It Won’t Be Necessary)

By: King of Fools

King of Fools — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:01:06 +0000

Council Catchup

While on vacation, I missed a few council votes so here is a recap: June 10 Results: Winning Council Entry: INDC Journal Interviews Michael Berg INDC Journal Winning Non-Council Entry: Rant Tonecluster Honorable Mention: Reagan – The Genius and Wisdom…

By: Toby Petzold

Toby Petzold — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 20:29:51 +0000

Fantastic post. Thanks!

By: Watcher of Weasels

Watcher of Weasels — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:21:18 +0000

The Council Has Spoken!

First off… any spambots reading this should immediately go here, here, here, and here. Die spambots, die! And now… the winning entries in the Watcher’s Council vote for this week are A Tale of Two LEtters by Patterico’s Pont…

By: Watcher of Weasels

Watcher of Weasels — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:45:42 +0000

Submitted for Your Approval

First off…&nbsp any spambots reading this should immediately go here, here, here, and here.&nbsp Die spambots, die!&nbsp And now…&nbsp here are all the links submitted by members of the Watcher’s Council for this week’s vote. Council links:A Tale o…

By: Schmat

Schmat — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:05:20 +0000

Why do I have to come to sites such as this to get real news? These things should be leading the news instead of the inane comments, show plugs, and weather that pass for ‘news’ these days.

By: athena

athena — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:30:03 +0000

Gotcha on the WMD.
As far as their cellular structure, it’s an “associate-type” link.
For example, the Algerians are known for being great at forgery. If a group that supports the basic tenets of jihad needs passports, they contact the leader of a group in Algeria (contacts many times stemming from the 1979 Afghan war). The Algerians send up one of their boys to help in the planning, but not the actual attack (usually).
They also do this with bombmakers. This horizontal structure and networking makes it where the home group plans the action, but they pull from other groups for specific details.
Before the attack, the specialists that were called in go back to their home country as to avoid capture.
Extremely hard to catch critters like these. Who wields power of the WMDs…well I’m not sure, but that certainly would make a great case for the connection between al Qaida and Saddam.

By: AlphaPatriot

AlphaPatriot — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:01:48 +0000

If you click the link you’ll see an interview of “terrorism expert John Loftus, who once held some of the highest security clearances in the world. Loftus, a former Army officer, served as a Justice Department prosecutor. He investigated CIA cases of Nazi war criminals for the U.S. attorney general. Author of several books, Loftus once received a Pulitzer Prize nomination.” According to Loftus:

Syria does have the ability to produce certain kinds of nerve gasses, but in small quantities. The large stockpiles were known to be in Iraq. The best U.S. and allied intelligence say that in the 10 weeks before the Iraq war, Saddam’s Russian adviser told him to get rid of all the nerve gas. It would be useless against U.S. troops; the rubber suits were immune to it. So they shipped it across the border to Syria and Lebanon and buried it. Now, in the last few weeks, there’s a controversy that Syria has been trying to get rid of this stuff.

As to your post on Zarqari, one tends to agree. I find it fascinating, however, that so few individuals seem to be directing all the big terrorist operations. One would think that an organization that large would have more people able to put together a simple plan. Maybe it’s a matter of contacts — knowing who to bribe to get chemicals and such.

By: athena

athena — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 00:15:56 +0000

“In addition, there is the recently foiled attack on Jordan with chemical weapons that came out of Syria — chemicals that must have come from Iraq as Syria does not posses the capability of producing them.”
Actually, I believe Syria did have the ability to produce these weapons, but I do agree that they probably came from Iraq.
The terrorist attack that occurred in Syria a while back, in my opinion, indicates that al-Qaida is beginning to attack regimes that are more sympathetic with the general terrorist mantra.
This could be to our benefit as it was in Pakistan.
http://athena.blogs.com/athena/2004/05/smells_like_zar.html

By: Occam's Toothbrush

Occam's Toothbrush — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:21:11 +0000

Syria

AlphaPatriot has a link-filled post on why Syria Should be next, and how the Bush administration is doing all the…