http://www.msnbc.com/news/895185.asp?0cl=cR <b>Positive test for terror toxins in Iraq</b> <i>Evidence of ricin, botulinum at Islamic militants’ camp By Preston Mendenhall</i> 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.
That report is 2 days old... it was in a terror camp. Not sure what became of it, though. I know the hundreds/thousands of vials of whatever they initially thought was atropine or some other chemical agent turned out to not be anything incriminating.
Hasn't the US had complete control of the airspace in most of Iraq for the past twelve years and given control on the ground to the Kurds, as this is the only autonomous Kurdish region in the world? Do we expect an ground assault without air cover by someone else when we would never do that? We were the only ones in a position to do something about them (world's only superpower with planes doing no fly zone duty for past twelve years, oh about twenty miles away) and chose not to do anything until now. http://www.msnbc.com/news/895185.asp?0cl=cR You missed an important part of this story... The territory of northern Iraq where the traces of ricin were detected is not under the control of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
