WMD's: From Saddam to Palestine with love...

As Hans Blix and the 'No WMD's in Iraq' crowd continue to dismiss the evidence of WMDs existing in Iraq after the 1991 cease fire agreement, other terrorist groups have been able to get their hands on the very weapons we've been so concerned about.

Back in 2003, the Al-Aksa Martyrs' Brigades (the militant wing of Palestinian Authority), declared that they possess chemical weapons. It just so happens that the same type of weapons disappeared from Iraq the same year that the Al-Aksa Martyrs' Brigade declared that they possessed them. Could it be that Saddam was sending more than paychecks to the terrorist waging war against Israel? The world continues to pressure Israel to absorb the attacks by the terrorist and respond 'with restraint' when using force. The Palestinian terrorist continue to attack. In fact the Al-Aksa Martyrs' Brigade has upped the ante.

After an increase in hostilities in the Middle East which included border intrusions and abductions of Israeli soldiers by the Palestinians and Israeli air strikes against bridges and power grids in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinians have now stated that they have launched chemical weapons into Israel.

According to a Sydney Morning Herald report:

A spokesman for gunmen in the Gaza Strip said they had fired a rocket tipped with a chemical warhead at Israel early today.

The Israeli army had no immediate comment on the claim by the spokesman from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement. The group had recently claimed to possess about 20 biological warheads for the makeshift rockets commonly fired from Gaza at Israeli towns. This was the first time the group had claimed firing such a rocket.

"The al-Aqsa Brigades have fired one rocket with a chemical warhead" at southern Israel, Abu Qusai, a spokesman for the group, said in Gaza.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said the army had not detected that any such rocket was fired, nor was there any report of such a weapon hitting Israel.

This report, which is suspiciously missing from the US mainstream press, speaks directly to the need for the US lead war on terror: State sponsored terrorism, as carried out in Iraq (through Saddam Hussein) and Syria (through Hezbollah) has now placed chemical weapons in the hands of Islamo-Fascist who would use them at a whim and with no regard for innocent life. The UN's inability to stop the proliferation of said weapons has open the door for many innocent lives being lost. The current death toll brought on by terrorism may be just the tip of the iceberg. Free societies must stand together if we are to defeat the enemies of freedom.

Michael DiBartolo
TWP