Eat your daily ration of good old America Bullshit.....

Now that so many people agree that Osama bin Ladin is long dead and
that the one-legged Jordainian super anti hero has probably hopped
off to retirement, having more than fulfilled his role for the CIA,
black ops department, the Coallition of the Killing need a new bogey-
man to frighten us.
Enter stage left Mr. Without Mercy, or in arabic Midhat Mursi.
The script writers of this chilling drama of evil have created a new
super anti hero with a shelf-life and bomb-by-date that will last
until the Black Ops script writers devise an even more demonic actor
to keep us in fear and trembling.
Descriptions of this recent character on the world terrorist stage
are pure Hollywood. A mad scientist sporting a huge red beard,
experimenting with various unknown poisonous gases, but not on mice,
rats, etc., the usual laboratory animal chosen for research. No,
this brilliant and pitiless genius tests his gases of mass
destruction on man's best friend, the dog. This fact alone is
guaranteed to bring revulsion to those who see killing a fellow
human being as OK, just as long as they are ragheads, camel jockeys,
sand niggers or whatever name you wish to put to those who hate our
freedoms, but love their pitbull, rotwieller or ridge-back.
Once more the American sheeple are being fed a diet of comic-book
bullshit, which they will no doubt ingest as easily as a big mac.
Yes folks, the Tooth Fairy lives and Santa will come down your
chimney in three weeks time, but only to good boys and girls, so,
come on children, eat up all your daily ration of good old American
Bullshit.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,777455,00.html
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Al-Qaida videos show poison gas tests

CNN shows first samples from a cache of tapes

Julian Borger in Washington
Tuesday August 20, 2002
The Guardian

Videos found in Afghanistan of experiments on dogs were broadcast yesterday, adding weight to court evidence and US intelligence reports that al-Qaida was developing chemical weapons before the Afghan war began in October.

The videotapes are part of a large archive of 60 cassettes obtained by CNN which also includes tapes on how to make explosives and previously unseen footage of Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.

Those broadcast yesterday show three dogs going into convulsions after being exposed to a chemical. On one tape a man dressed in Afghan clothes drops something on the floor of a hut near where a white puppy has been tied up and then hurries out.

A white liquid can be seen seeping across the floor. The puppy gets up and seems to have trouble breathing, then its legs give way and it collapses, whimpering as it loses consciousness.

The other two tapes of experiments also show dogs succumbing to chemicals.

It is unclear what chemicals were being tested, but John Gilbert, a chemical weapons expert at the Science Applications International Corporation in Washington, said: "The first impression I had is that it's a test or a demonstration of a very powerful and quick-acting chemical that behaves like a nerve agent, such as sarin, which was used in the Tokyo subway terrorism attacks in the 1990s."

But Frederick Sidell, another expert, who once worked at the US army's chemical defence research centre, told the New York Times that he doubted the chemical used was sarin or cyanide, and pointed out that it was unclear whether the dogs actually died in the experiments.

The CNN reporter who acquired the tapes, Nic Robertson, said he was shown about 250 cassettes by a previously reliable Afghan contact from which he chose 60 of the most interesting. He said CNN did not pay for the tapes.

Terrorism experts who have seen the tapes said they were authentic and appeared to confirm what had already been suspected about al-Qaida's attempts to develop poison gases.

Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian in a US prison for his role in a plot to bomb Los Angeles airport during the 2000 millennium celebrations, gave court evidence about taking part in cyanide experiments on dogs at an al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan.

He said trainees were taught how to add sulphuric acid to a small amount of cyanide to release poisonous fumes, and how a cyanide canister placed near the air intake of an office building could kill large numbers of people.

According to villagers, US soldiers in protective clothing arrived at Darunta camp, near Jalalabad, after the fall of the Taliban and destroyed large numbers of bottles and other containers littering the site.

At al-Qaida's Farm Hada training camp near Darunta, journalists found vials filled with a colourless liquid labelled sarin/v-gas in Cyrillic lettering.

US intelligence said al-Qaida's chemical weapons programme was centred in Darunta camp. The mastermind behind experiments was allegedly an Egyptian called Midhat Mursi, who ran a section of the camp known as Khabab, and who worked mainly with Egyptians.

Experts said that all but one of the voices on the tapes shown yesterday by CNN spoke in Egyptian accents.

According to CNN, other tapes to be broadcast later this week include detailed instructions on how to make TNT explosives using commonly available ingredients.

Another tape appears to be a documentary highly critical of Saddam Hussein from an Islamic point of view.

Peter Bergen, author of Holy War, Inc, a profile of al-Qaida, said it confirmed his impression of Bin Laden's intense dislike of the Iraqi dictator and his regime. In a 1997 interview with Mr Bergen, Bin Laden called Saddam a "bad Muslim".

Also among the videos is a record of a 1998 press conference to mark al-Qaida's merger with the Egyptian Islamic Jihad movement led by Ayman al-Zawahiri.

At the press conference Bin Laden declares a formal Jihad against "crusaders and Jews".

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