Now dont jump to conclusions!

Cartalas · Post by **Cartalas** » June 26, 2003, 9:36 am

Thoughts?

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/06/ ... index.html

US officials are even saying this is not a smoking gun. But scary

Vaemas · Post by **Vaemas** » June 26, 2003, 10:36 am

Actually, I'm more interested in the castor beans (used to make Ricin) they found today. CNN Headline News (radio) was saying they were labeled instead as fertilizer. Unfortunately, all I can find in reference to the radio news story is the following:

Ananova wrote:NBC said US troops also found 300 sacks of castor beans, which can be used to make the deadly biological agent ricin. It said they were in a warehouse in the town of al-Aziziyah, 50 miles south-east of Baghdad, and were labelled as fertiliser.

Granted, castor seeds have other uses, even as fertalizer ( http://www.stii.dost.gov.ph/tekno/book3/book3_29.htm ). Interesting bits and pieces, but even as the gov't said, not a smoking gun.

Krimson Klaw · Post by **Krimson Klaw** » June 26, 2003, 11:00 am

Haha, a bag of fertilizer, labelled as fertilizer.....actually makes the news? If I were you I would delete my own post and sue the site you linked to for making people look foolish.

Fizzlewhip · Post by **Fizzlewhip** » June 26, 2003, 11:43 am

Vaemas · Post by **Vaemas** » June 26, 2003, 12:11 pm

Krimson Klaw wrote:If I were you I would delete my own post and sue the site you linked to for making people look foolish.

Why? I could care less one way or the other whether we find WMD or not. We're still talking about raw, unprocessed castor beans and their possible uses, something the news services neglected to mention. Fertilizer or ricin? We'll never know. Just pointing out something found and at the same time beating someone else to the punch that it can also be used as fertilizer with appropriate processing.

Read and make your own opinion using all the facts, not just popular news. If people are stupid enough to jump on the bandwagon without all the facts, they should get caught with their pants down.

Krimson Klaw · Post by **Krimson Klaw** » June 26, 2003, 12:14 pm

I appreciate good irony.

Fizzlewhip · Post by **Fizzlewhip** » June 26, 2003, 1:14 pm

bored

Forthe · Post by **Forthe** » June 26, 2003, 6:28 pm

Forthe wrote:Posted: May 12, 2003, 1:48 pm Post subject:
It is starting to look a bit silly a month later and still nothing found, another month and the WMD claims will inspire chuckles.

vn_Tanc · Post by **vn_Tanc** » June 27, 2003, 5:43 am

Who cares anyway - Comical Ali is back on teh TV w00t!