- Note: There is no way to confirm or deny
the accuracy of the NBC weapons statistics in the following article.
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- The United States is preparing to launch
a new jihad against Great Satan Iraq. Possible attack date: the night before
special investigator Ken Starr charges Clinton with perjury and influence
peddling.
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- Prime targets: Saddam Hussein's underground
bunker - and Monica Lewinsky. In 1737, Britain and Spain fought the War
of Jenkin's Ear. Stand by for the War of Monica's Lips. President Clinton
counts on a new crusade against Saddam to cancel out Zippergate. The Pentagon
warns Iraq's alleged chemical/biological weapons (CB) will be eradicated
by sustained air, and possibly commando, attacks.
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- If they exist, Iraq's modest, remaining
stores of CB weapons are probably hidden in mountains, desert, or marshes
- not in guest bedrooms of Saddam's palaces, the rather comical target
of current American wrath. UN inspectors say Iraq has, at most, one Scud
missile left. Iraq's rudimentary nuclear program - based on Israeli technology
sold to Baghdad by South Africa - was dismantled. Large stores of chemical/bio
weapons were destroyed. Iraq's ability to deliver CB weapons is now probably
limited to Fedexing germs to its enemies, COD..
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- Even if Iraq were 100% disarmed - an
impossibility - how would this effect the region's security?
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- *Syria: 200 Scud-B missiles with 985kg
VX nerve gas warheads. Sixty longer-ranged Scud-C's with cluster warhead
bomblets packed with deadly VX nerve agent. Targeted on Israeli cities,
air and missile bases, as counter-force to Israel's nuclear arsenal. .
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- *Iran: CIA estimates stockpile of 2,000
tons of blistering, choking, blood and some nerve agents. In the 80's,
Iran was victim of massive chemical warfare by Iraq, then a US-British
ally. Iran lacks long-ranged delivery capability. Working on Sahab-3 missile
system capable of reaching Israel with one ton warhead. Limited bio-war
research
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- *Egypt: chemical agents delivered by
air/short-ranged missiles. Small, top-secret biowarfare project begun in
early 1960's in response to Israel's nuclear program, including plague
and warheads packed with highly radioactive Strontium-90, and Cesium. .
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- *Turkey: some air/artillery delivered
chemical agents. Mustard gas possibly used against rebellious Kurds .
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- *Libya - Limited chemical/biological
warfare - including some work on highly-deadly anthrax by Iraqi technicians.
No means to deliver CB weapons - which are more dangerous to bumbling Libyans
than anyone else..
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- *Pakistan: 20 air-delivered nuclear weapons.
Working on nuclear warheads for Al-Hatf missiles. Blistering, choking and
V-series nerve agents: VX, VS.
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- *India: minimum 60 nuclear weapons. Can
make 50 plutonium weapons yearly. Delivered by air, artillery, soon `Prithvi'
missile and, later, `Agni' intermediate range ballistic missile. Chemical
warfare arsenal of many thousand tons of mustard and nerve gas. Some advanced
germ warfare research.
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- *Israel: Mideast's sole nuclear power.
200-400 nuclear air and missile-delivered warheads, reportedly including
hydrogen and high-radiation neutron warheads. Some nuclear mines. Nuclear-armed
Jericho's based at Kfar Zachariah. Nuclear bombs for F-15's/16's/F-4's
based at Tel Nof. Mideast's largest producer of chemical weapons at Dimona,
including nerve, blistering, choking agents. Also largest producer of biological
weapons, reportedly anthrax, plague, Q fever, Tularemia. Can deliver by
air or missile.
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- Iraq, says the UN, produced 150 VX nerve
gas bombs and 50 short-ranged Frog missile warheads filled with biological
agents. Iraq also produced small amounts of nerve agent, Sarin, and gas-gangrene
causing clostridium. Sizeable quantities of biowar agents botulism and
anthrax. And test batches of Saddam's secret weapon: camel pox!
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- The West supplied all Iraq's CB raw materials
and manufacturing processes. Germ warfare breeder stocks came from Britain
and the US - for use against Iran. Almost all have since been destroyed.
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- Iraq didn't use germs or chemicals against
Israel in the 1991 war. Israel vowed to retaliate with nuclear weapons
if an CB attack occured. So did the US.
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- Chemical and biological weapons are now
permanently implanted from North Africa to India. Bombing Iraq again won't
put this deadly genii back into its bottle.
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