On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, R wrote:
> the US mass media discovers (all networks and outlets on the same day)
> that poison gas kills dogs. somehow, this was missed for several
> decades, while the US tested its chemical warfare weapons on dogs, rats
> and other animals including people.
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> continued if anyone's interested ....
Actually there was one interesting paragraph buried pretty far down in the NYT version of this report, where investigators made another surprising discovery, and where their surprise also seems largely an indictment of how little they seem to know:
<quote>
Several experts said they were surprised by the presence in the Qaeda
archives of a documentary that was highly critical of Saddam Hussein.
Mr. Bergen said that in his interview, Mr. bin Laden called Saddam a
"bad Muslim."
<unquote>
Michael