Iraqi colonel: I am WMD claim source

[T_i_B]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=470910

An Iraqi colonel said yesterday that he was the source of the Government's "dodgy dossier" claim that Iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes.

Lieutenant-Colonel al-Dabbagh, who said he was the head of an Iraqi air defence unit in the desert, outed himself. But he explained that the weapons he was talking about were battlefield weapons to be fired from rocket-propelled grenades, and were not for use in missiles.

"They arrived in boxes marked 'Made in Iraq' and looked like something you fired with a rocket-propelled grenade," Col al-Dabbagh told The Sunday Telegraph.

"They were either chemical or biological weapons; I don't know which, because only the Fedayeen and the Special Republican Guard were allowed to use them. All I know is we were told that when we used these weapons we had to wear gas masks."

[0007]

1. This is old Karl Rove news

A fake Lieutenant-Colonel al-Dabbaugh that belongs in the flintstones.

A dupe!

[T_i_B]

2. Not a dupe thread I hope

A dupe on the part of Phoney B:liar though, without doubt. :eyes:

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. 'Fraid so

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=256778

[snippy]

3. "They arrived in boxes marked 'Made in Iraq . . . .' "

As I recall, Bush has someone on his staff responsible for falsifying this type of information.

[mistertrickster]

5. So Col. Anonymous, where are they now?

Little poison gas canisters fired from RPG's . . . Have WMD's EVER been used this way before? And why weren't they used? After the US has occupied the country for six months and they are offering millions in reward money and witness protections, people are still "too scared" to talk about the WMD's?

Nothing about this report is ringing true.

[spanone]

6. sounds like a load of horseshit to me

just something to slog by listeners ears...very rovian.

[jmcgowanjm]

7. The problem: NBC led w/ this story/ to cover story below

"The failures of this war indicate weaknesses
and inherent flaws within Israeli intelligence and
among Israeli decision-makers," Brig. Gen.
Shlomo Brom wrote in an analysis for Tel Aviv
University's Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies.

"Israeli intelligence was a full partner to the
picture presented by American and British
intelligence regarding Iraq's non-conventional
capabilities."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36694-2003Dec4.html

[realFedUp]

8. dupe thread

[Moderator]

9. Dupe... locking

Please continue discussion within the original LBN thread on this topic, which can be found here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=256778

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