No Runny Eggs

(H/T – Sister Toldjah)

11 years after the initial discovery of several vials of phosgene gas in Iraq, the re-discovery of said vials at a UN building in New York City touched off a kerfuffle. The statement from the UN is less than reassuring:

On Friday 24th August 2007 in archiving UNSCOM files, UNMOVI staff discovered two small plastic packages with metal and glass containers (ranging in size from small vials to tubes the length of a pen) with unknown liquid substances. The archives are located at the UNMOVIC headquarters, 866 East 48th Street, 3rd and 6th floors.

An initial investigation has revealed that these items were recovered from a former Iraqi chemical weapons facility, al Muthamma, by UNSCOM inspectors in 1996.

It was only on 29 August, however, that the inspection report containing an inventory of the items was recovered. The inventory shows that one of the items may contain phosgene (COCL2) suspended in oil — an old generation chemical warfare agent. The inventory also indicated that the other package contains Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) reference standards in sealed glass tubes. These standards are used to calibrate chemical analytical equipment.

UNMOVIC has confirmed that normally such items would have been transported directly to appropriately equipped laboratories for analysis and not sent to UNSCOM/ UNMOVIC headquarters in New York. In the past, UNSCOM chemical samples were sent via military transport directly to Edgewood labs.

And this is the agency we’re supposed to trust with certification of disarmament of WMDs?

(H/T – James T. Harris)

You can bet terrorists the world over will want these 4-shot .22-caliber “cell phones” over the iPhone. Never mind that the reception, frankly, sucks because it doesn’t actually do any cell-phone-related stuff. Just hit the right keys to shoot.

An American Expat has been outlining the problems that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has been having lately. Since shortly after 9/11/2001, he has been walking a tightrope between the Taliban (once offically supported by Pakistan)/Al Qaeda/Saudi-funded madrasas on one side and the US on the other. There’s been mounting evidence that he has slipped off the rope, and the Islamokazis that had backed him prior to his tightrope act are poised to succeed in their attempt to take over Pakistan and its nuclear arsenal.

I strongly suspect that, if that happens and nothing is done to either secure or destroy Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, said arsenal will depart Pakistan for detonation in the West and Israel instead of its intended targets in India. However, I just as strongly suspect that the US does have contingency plans for securing and destroying that arsenal should an Islamist group take control in Pakistan.

(H/T – CDR Salamander)

You might want to read the latest e-mail from Michael Yon, who has been in the “irretreviably-lost” (if you believe the Dhimm crowd) Anbar province for quite a while, that Glenn Reynolds put up, as well as the follow-on correspondence. First, part of Yon’s e-mail:

Otherwise, 2-7 hardly have fired their weapons. Today, I accompanied LTC Doug Crissman, the commander, to three meetings with Iraqi police and civilian leadership. The meetings were important but thankfully more administrative than combat oriented. Subjects included police recruitment and local politics, and actually seemed more difficult to navigate than “simple combat.” And to think that only in January of this year, this city was a daily battle. Today, there are clear signs of development and the civilian population was out shopping. In addition to basic services being restored, the city of Hit has rebuilt its library. Citizens had stored away the books during the war here. They are preparing to re-stock the library. Glenn, you know that I do not hesitate to deliver bad news. I have no bad news to deliver today. The town of Hit clearly is doing much, much better. “Anbar the impossible” might be possible after all.

Next, a bit of Captain Michael Mulvania’s letter:

I’m actually sitting about 30 feet from Michael Yon as he types his dispatches, here in the town of Hit, Al Anbar province. As one of the soldiers in Task Force 2-7, I have to say it’s really heartening to have a journalist of his caliber out here reporting with us. Hit, along with Anbar generally, has settled down tremendously in the 4 months I’ve been in country this tour. It’s surreal to compare my first two months in downtown Ramadi – incessant gunfire, explosions, and unending violence – to the peacekeeping and institution-building we finally have underway here in Hit. You wouldn’t get that reading the papers, with their constant focus on the (obviously tragic) sectarian violence in Baghdad, but frankly what has happened in Anbar is near-miraculous – it’s a story that deserves to be reported far more heavily than it has so to date.

Isn’t it interesting how we’re not hearing much of anything out of Anbar anymore since we certainly seem to be succeeding there? Gee, could ABCCBSNBCCNNNYTWPMJSDhimmiRATsetal be more interested in defeating President Bush, the Republicans and conservatives than protecting people that want to just live from those that want to kill everybody, whether American or Iraqi, that isn’t 110% in agreement with them? Do note that I did NOT include Time. Even though Joe Klein did manage to sneak in a cheap shot or two, he did notice that we are making some serious progress against Al Qaeda in Anbar.

I’m a bit late in bringing this party to the Cheddarsphere, and I really should’ve done it Thursday as it was one of the topics Uncle J and I discussed. The New York Times reported on Tuesday that the feds are trying to figure out whether we would retaliate if a nuke were detonated by Islamokazis on American soil. There’s been an interesting discussion at Hot Air, where Allahpundit brought it up for discussion.

I said that I subscribed to the Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations and said I would nuke everybody in response, specifically saying that Mecca should be no more (not even rubble). For those that say that would get the Muslims mad at us, I have a news flash – damn near all of them are already mad enough to work toward our extermination.

Uncle J had, on reflection, a better take. He’d wipe out the modern military capabilities of all the rogue nuclear states…with conventional weapons “because we don’t know WHO nuked us, so we can’t use nukes” (if I flubbed the quote, please correct me, UJ).

Hence, I’ve got a fresh poll up (at least it should be up by the time you read this). Vote there, discuss here.

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(A big tip of the “John Doe” cap to Michelle Malkin)

The Atlantic City Press has the praise that US Attorney Christopher J. Christie heaped on the anonymous camera shop owner who tipped off the FBI to the Albanian Islamokazis who wanted to “thank” America for its support of the Islamist causes in the Balkans by killing as many soldiers as they could…

Christie called the camera shop owner that alerted federal authorities an American hero. The suspected terrorists had gone to the shop about 16 months ago to transfer training videos from video tape to DVD’s.

“The camera store owner saw Muslim men in military garb toting weapons in the woods. He heard them talking about jihad and how Allah was great. He called the FBI and became a hero,” Christie said….

Christie used the camera shop owner to convince the 50 local merchants at the Tuesday luncheon to report suspicious activity. He said people have become too complacent about terrorism.

“If you see something suspicious pick up the phone and call local police or the FBI. The only stupid call is the call you don’t make. Imagine if the camera store owner didn’t call the FBI,” Christie said.

Remember, If you see something, say something. Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. (Oh, and that provided an excuse to repost the John Doe video.)

Revisions/extensions (6:43 am 5/9/2007, with more material from Michelle) – Part 1 – The Pocono Record says there was a second John Doe that helped the authorities connect the dots to the Islamokazis’ Poconos “target practice”. Bravo Zulu, Randy Swiden.

Part 2 – Frank Gaffney reports the DhimmiRATs are trying to deep-six the attempt to protect us John Does from CAIR.

(H/Ts – Allahpundit and JammieWearingFool. Also, there is a strong-language warning, which is why I didn’t actively trackback to them because they’re a bit calmer than I am.)

The AP may have scrubbed all references of the Religion of Pieces, Islam, from their current 8 am story on 6 Islamokazis who planned on storming Fort Dix to kill as many soldiers as they could (credit to FoxNews.com, they switched off the crAP dispatch), but we’ll stick with The Star Ledger because they didn’t bow to the political correctness…

Federal investigators last night arrested six men who were planning a heavily-armed armed attack against soldiers at Fort Dix as part of a jihad against America, according to two law enforcement sources.

The men had conducted surveillance of the Army base and were caught allegedly attempting to purchase AK-47s to carry out their plan, one of the sources said.

The bust came after several of them were lured to a meeting with an arms-seller who turned out to be a secret FBI informant, said both sources, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the arrests.

The would-be attackers, ethnic Albanians who had been under surveillance by the FBI for months, practiced by shooting paintball guns and real weapons in a rural area of the Poconos, one source said. They also allegedly watched jihadist videos in which Osama bin Laden urged them toward martyrdom….

Tell me again why we went to war for these goatfuckers. Tell me how getting an F-117 shot down was worth it. I dare you, Madeline Halfbright. I double-fucking-dog dare you, S(l)ick Willie. Tell me why the fuck we still have troops over there protecting these fucking ingrates, Bush.

Revisions/extensions (9:50 am 5/8/2007) – Part 1 – AP is once again acknowledging that they might be “Islamic militants”, while Fox News has filed its own dispatch under the link that had gone to a previous AP version (hence the switch of the source of the then-current AP story). The crAP, being the presstitutes they are, couldn’t let it go without spewing the obligatory claims that Islam is “really” a religion of peace, not pieces.

Further revisions/extensions (10:13 am 5/8/2007) – WNBC in New York has the criminal complaint (H/T – Peter).

(H/T – Weasel Zippers via JammieWearingFool)

One of the claims by George Tenet in his kiss-and-tell book that isn’t getting a whole lot of media-web attention outside of MSNBC (I have no idea about any of the networks’ on-air efforts; sorry) is that Al Qaeda tried to assassinate then-Vice President Al Gore back in 1998 with the tacit assistance and approval of some in the government of Saudi Arabia. I’ll let MSNBC explain…

Tenet discloses that in 1998, Saudi officials foiled a plot by Abdel Rahim al-Nashiri to smuggle four Sagger anti-tank missiles from Yemen into Saudi Arabia a week or so before Gore was scheduled to visit the kingdom. But their reluctance to let the United States know what was going on created significant tension between the two nations.

Tenet writes that it was reasonable to have expected the Saudis to pass the information along as soon as possible, but they did not.

After low-level discussions failed to produce a sense of urgency among the Saudis, Tenet flew to Riyadh to meet with Prince Naif, the interior minister and the man in charge of the Saudi secret police.

The rest of the article is also an interesting (in the Chinese sense of the word) read. Of particular note is the 9-year-long attempt by Al Qaeda to acquire nuclear weapons and explode them on American soil. I guess this would be a good time to point out that it was Tenet’s personal assessment that, if absolutely nothing changed from January 2003 (that means, Hans Blix was continuing to run around Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, and the joke of sanctions that were in place remained in place), Iraq would be a nuclear power anytime between now and 2009.