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Steve,

This does not belong on the trauma list.  If you
must continue the discussion, take it off list.

Thank you,
Sue


Steve Schecter wrote:

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>>(2) The Suitcase Nuke Boogeyman is getting really old.
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> NEW YORK -     Saddam Hussein told aides in the mid-1990s that he
>warned the United States it could be hit by a terrorist attack, ABC
>News reported Wednesday, citing 12 hours of tapes the network obtained
>of the former Iraqi dictator's talks with his Cabinet. 
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> 
>One of Saddam's son-in-laws also explained how     Iraq hid its
>biological weapons programs from U.N. inspectors, according to the
>tapes from August 1995.
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>The coming terrorist attack Saddam predicted could involve weapons of
>mass destruction.
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>"Terrorism is coming. I told the Americans," Saddam is heard saying,
>adding he "told the British as well."
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>"In the future, what would prevent a booby trapped car causing a
>nuclear explosion in Washington or a germ or a chemical one?" Saddam
>said.
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>But he insisted Iraq would never launch such an attack. "This story is
>coming, but not from Iraq," he said.
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>The State Department had no comment on the report, which aired on
>"World News Tonight." ABC News said U.S. officials confirmed the tapes
>were authentic.
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>ABC News said the     CIA found the tapes in Iraq and that the 12 hours
>were provided to it by Bill Tierney, a former member of a U.N.
>inspection team who was translating them for the     FBI. ABC News
>quoted Tierney as saying the U.S. government was wrong to keep the
>tapes secret.
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>Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz told Saddam on the tape that "the
>biological (attack) is very easy to make. It's so simple that any
>biologist can make a bottle of germs and drop it into a water tower and
>kill 100,000."
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>"This is not done by a state. No need to accuse a state. An individual
>can do it," he said.
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>Hussein Kamel, a son-in-law of Saddam's, who was then in charge of
>Iraq's weapons of mass destruction efforts, explained how Iraq held
>back information from the U.N. inspectors.
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>"We did not reveal all that we have," he said. "We did not reveal the
>volume of chemical weapons we had produced."
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>Kamel said Iraq had not revealed "the type of weapons, not the volume
>of the materials we imported."
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>Hussein Kamel defected to Jordan shortly after the tapes were recorded,
>and Iraq was forced to admit it had concealed its biological weapons
>program. Kamel returned to Iraq in February 1996 and was killed by
>security forces.
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>Charles Duelfer, who led the official U.S. search for weapons of mass
>destruction after the first     Gulf War, told ABC News the tapes show
>extensive deception but don't prove that weapons were still hidden in
>Iraq at the time of the U.S.-led war in 2003.
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>"What they do is support the conclusion in the report which we made in
>the last couple of years, that the regime had the intention of building
>and rebuilding weapons of mass destruction, when circumstances
>permitted," he said.
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>primum non nocere
>
>Steve Schecter, NREMT-B
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