BIOTOXINS FOUND

[Social Spit]

www.msnbc.com/news/895185.asp



SARGAT, Iraq, April 4 — Preliminary tests conducted by MSNBC.com indicate that the deadly toxins ricin and botulinum were present on two items found at a camp in a remote mountain region of northern Iraq allegedly used as a terrorist training center by Islamic militants with ties to the al-Qaida terrorist network. The field tests used by MSNBC.com are only a first step in the evidentiary process and are typically followed by more precise laboratory testing that MSNBC.com has not conducted. U.S. intelligence agents were conducting their own tests in the same area and had not yet released their results, according to officials in northern Iraq.



MSNBC.COM CONDUCTED the tests over a two-day period at Sargat, an alleged terrorist training camp a mile from the Iraq-Iran border. MSNBC.com purchased the test kits commercially. The field tests, developed by Osborn Scientific Group in Lakeside, Ariz., are regarded by some experts as very effective and have been used by U.N. weapons inspectors and federal government agents around the Sept. 11, 2001, attack site in New York City.

The Sargat camp, set back in an isolated valley and surrounded by snow-capped peaks, was home to the radical Islamic militant group Ansar al-Islam, which counts among its some 700 followers scores of al-Qaida fighters.

In a Feb. 5 speech to the U.N. Security Council, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell showed a satellite photo of the Sargat camp and described Ansar al-Islam as “teaching its operatives how to produce ricin and other poisons.” U.S. officials have repeated the allegations in recent weeks.

In an operation timed to coincide with the war on Iraq, U.S. special operations forces have targeted Ansar al-Islam’s militants in northern Iraq. Hundreds of Islamists, including al-Qaida fighters who took refuge in northern Iraq after the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan, have been killed.

Although U.S. officials for months have leveled charges that the Ansar al-Islam and al-Qaida militants were producing poisons in northern Iraq, it wasn’t until this week that specialist U.S. teams were able to gain access to the Sargat camp to test for traces of biological and chemical weapons.



Experts believe the Islamic group was producing the substances in the camp. Both toxins can be created from everyday products and simple procedures.



MSNBC.com’s samples of ricin and botulinum, two deadly biological agents, were taken from the soles of a boot and a shoe recovered from the Sargat camp. The facility has been flattened by several Tomahawk cruise missiles, fired as part of the U.S. campaign against Ansar al-Islam.



The thick rubber boot twice tested positive for ricin, a toxin derived from castor beans. Ingesting a pinch of ricin, which causes shock and respiratory failure, can kill a human being within 72 hours. There is no cure.



A black running shoe, shredded by the U.S. bombing, tested positive for botulinum. U.S. officials say terrorists have a particular interest in botulinum and ricin toxins, which may be delivered through release in food and water. Botulism, the illness resulting from botulinum ingestion, is a muscle-paralyzing disease that can cause a person to stop breathing and die, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

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Can someone tell me what was in the big grey cannister with the cyrillic markings and hose connectors?

[MIKE BURN]

Atropine..... all they found was Atropine.



A chemical used to CONQUER any chemical warfare attack by others.

[Social Spit]

Since they were (and ARE) planning to use it on us... And YOU

[MIKE BURN]

There was and there is no plan from Iraq to use the

oh so dangerous WMD's in Europe.



For what anyway?



And you see.... all those war-justifying WMD's

were heavily used by the Iraqi Government to

strike back the coalition troops.



Even after 3,000 Iraqi soldiers were slaughtered yesterday by overwhelming coward air-power, no WMD's anywhere!?



What? Where? Where's the danger? How many foreign people

died by Iraqi WMD's? Where are they?

[Social Spit]

That should be enough eh?

[MIKE BURN]

Very helpless Mr. Spit.



What do you want to say?

[Social Spit]

So, can we both stop posting these disturbing images, then?



Thank you

[MIKE BURN]

What do you want to say Mr. Spit?



Ashamed that you used the billions of Deutsche Mark and Euro's, Israel was and is receiving for the war crimes 60 years back, to slaughter civilians in the name of "God" today?



I thought Israel is neutral in this war?



Are the pockets empty already yet again?



I show you the pictures of your war crimes of TODAY!