I did a search on "VX gas Turkey Brewster Jennings" , re Neo Cons try to smuggle VX into Iraq

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and been unable to load my yahoo email page, I have had no access to any of my 3 yahoo emails since noon EST.

Just a co-incidence I am sure. SOrry If I don't feel like reformatting this just now:

I've read much on the net about how the White Houses' reaction to Joe WIlson's op~ed seemed overkill. Afterall a simple smear job would seem to called for. But the outing of Brewster Jennings may have caused the deaths of more than one agent. Within the last week, Larry Johnson alluded to this on the Randi Rhodes radio show.

On November 11, 2005 Wayne Madsen reported:
<blockquote>The Brewster Jennings network in Turkey was able to intercept this shipment which was intended to be hidden in Iraq and later used as evidence that Saddam Hussein was in possession of weapons of mass destruction. U.S. intelligence sources revealed that this was a major reason the Bush White House targeted Plame and her network. </blockquote>

On December 12th, 2002, the Washington Post reported that a shipment of VX nerve gas was moved thru Turkey, but with a completely different spin.
<blockquote>The Bush administration has received a credible report that Islamic extremists affiliated with al Qaeda took possession of a chemical weapon in Iraq last month or late in October,.... They said government analysts suspect that the transaction involved the nerve agent VX and that a courier managed to smuggle it overland through Turkey.</blockquote>

In December of 2005 I saved part of the WAPO article, as sort of a documentation, because while searching the net, I found the WAPO article cited in many locations, but yet, when I googled a sentence from the WAPO article, google yielded nothing, but the link I found was still active.

This is what I saved in 2005:

<blockquote>U.S. Suspects Al Qaeda Got Nerve Agent From Iraqis
Analysts: Chemical May Be VX, And Was Smuggled Via Turkey

By Barton Gellman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 12, 2002; Page A01

The Bush administration has received a credible report that Islamic extremists affiliated with al Qaeda took possession of a chemical weapon in Iraq last month or late in October, according to two officials with firsthand knowledge of the report and its source. They said government analysts suspect that the transaction involved the nerve agent VX and that a courier managed to smuggle it overland through Turkey.

If the report proves true, the transaction marks two significant milestones. It would be the first known acquisition of a nonconventional weapon other than cyanide by al Qaeda or a member of its network. It also would be the most concrete evidence to support the charge, aired for months by President Bush and his advisers, that al Qaeda terrorists receive material assistance in Iraq. If advanced publicly by the White House, the report could be used to rebut Iraq's assertion in a 12,000-page declaration Saturday that it had destroyed its entire stock of chemical weapons.

On the central question whether Iraqi President Saddam Hussein knew about or authorized such a transaction, U.S. analysts are said to have no evidence. Because Hussein's handpicked Special Security Organization, run by his son Qusay, has long exerted tight control over concealed weapons programs, officials said they presume it would be difficult to transfer a chemical agent without the president's knowledge.
more...

From this saved link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A42876-2002Dec11?language=printer
</blockquote>


Today I found this: The Daily Alert cites a WAPO December 12th 2002 article:
<blockquote>They said government analysts suspect that the transaction involved the nerve agent VX and that a courier managed to smuggle it overland through Turkey.</blockquote>
http://www.dailyalert.org/archive/2002-12/2002-12-12.html

The Daily Alert quotes exactly what I saved in 2005, and provides a link which no longer works:

<blockquote>We are unable to locate the page you requested.
The page may have moved or may no longer be available </blockquote>

I saved this link from a prior reseach blitz, a WAPO article from December 11th 2002, and it no longer works:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A42876-2002Dec11?language=printer >

I also had this NYT link saved, which no longer works:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iraq-Nerve-Gas.html


A WAPO search for "vx gas Turkey Iraq" yields nada:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/NewsSearch?sb=-1&st=vx%20gas%20Turkey%20Iraq&

Archive Searching yields one article, the spin, from the Administration, after the fact on Demember 13th 2002:

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/results.html?st=basic&uid=&MAC=50a23aa1f3f5c6104e90e36051420d61&QryTxt=vx+nerve+gas+Turkey&sortby=RELEVANCE&x=12&y=11

Advanced Archive search... same

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/results.html?st=advanced&uid=&MAC=50a23aa1f3f5c6104e90e36051420d61&QryTxt=vx+nerve+gas+Turkey&sortby=REVERSE_CHRON&datetype=6&frommonth=09&fromday=01&fromyear=2002&tomonth=12&today=12&toyear=2002&By=&Title=&Sect=ALL&x=6&y=10

I did an Advanced Archive search at WAPO, I pasted this entence in the search engine:

<blockquote>They said government analysts suspect that the transaction involved the nerve agent VX and that a courier managed to smuggle it overland through Turkey.</blockquote>

Yielding this: http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/262819531.html?dids=262819531:262819531&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Dec+12%2C+2002&author=Barton+Gellman&pub=The+Washington+Post&edition=&startpage=A.01&desc=U.S.+Suspects+Al+Qaeda+Got+Nerve+Agent+From+Iraqis

It seems the article was re~written:
<blockquote>The Washington Post - Washington, D.C.
Author: Barton Gellman
Date: Dec 12, 2002
Start Page: A.01
Section: A SECTION
Document Types: News
Text Word Count: 1852

Prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency, last week's "Turkey Defense Terrorism Threat Awareness Message" warned of a possible chemical weapons attack by al Qaeda on the Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey. Incirlik is an important NATO facility from which a U.S.-led coalition in 1991 launched thousands of bombing runs to force Iraq to withdraw its army from Kuwait. Turkey has given conditional agreement to its use in the event of a new war with Iraq.

Among the uncertainties about the suspected weapon transfer in Iraq is the precise relationship of the Islamic operatives to the al Qaeda network. One official said the transaction involved Asbat al- Ansar, a Lebanon-based Sunni extremist group that recently established an enclave in northern Iraq. Asbat al-Ansar is affiliated with Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda organization and receives funding from it, but officials said they did not know whether its pursuit of chemical weapons was specifically on al Qaeda's behalf.

In 1998, the Clinton administration asserted that Iraq provided technical assistance in the construction of a VX production facility in Sudan, undertaken jointly with al Qaeda. In retaliation for al Qaeda's August 1998 truck bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, President Bill Clinton ordered the destruction of the al Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, Sudan's capital.</blockquote>



http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/262819531.html?dids=262819531:262819531&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Dec+12%2C+2002&author=Barton+Gellman&pub=The+Washington+Post&edition=&startpage=A.01&desc=U.S.+Suspects+Al+Qaeda+Got+Nerve+Agent+From+Iraqis

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1. mines not loading either

and I didn't google any of that stuff.. they're probably having problems.

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2. THis server is down

http://us.f520.mail.yahoo.com

SO do you think that We should have found WMDs in IRaq, whether SAddam had them or not? ANd was this a shipment to plant in Iraq?

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4. I do think they tried to plant them

and someone accidentally foiled their little project (can you say friendly fire?) and they haven't had an opportunity to do it again.

[seemslikeadream]

3. Does anyone wonder why Sibel's been gaged?

Sibel Edmonds and other Whistleblowers Group

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=344

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5. There is a tenious connection that seems to be growing, bewteen

Sibel & Brewster Jennings.

Throw in Libby & Frank, I mean Mark, Rich, for good luck.

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6. and a suitcase of cash for Denny Hastert

:hi:




http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/21/74018/671

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7. Ahhh, Denny the "Hut" Hastert.