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Ärende: Gibber loses it...
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You wonder why I call John Gibson, "John Gibber," Frank?

It's due to bullshit like this he spews on his program.
"Gibber gibber gibber..."

Fox News: "Are Saddam Hussein's WMDs Now in Hezbollah's Hands?"

Summary: During a segment in which John Gibson and Julie Banderas were 
speculating on whether there was any truth to the baseless reports and 
statements from unidentified "experts" that Saddam Hussein's alleged 
stockpile of weapons of mass destruction had been secretly transported 
from Iraq to Syria before the Iraq war and "might have been put in the 
hands of Hezbollah," the onscreen text read: "Are Saddam Hussein's WMDs 
Now in Hezbollah's Hands?"

On the July 21 edition of Fox News' The Big Story, during a report on 
the "scary 'what ifs' " surrounding the current conflict between Israel 
and Hezbollah, host John Gibson, along with Fox News' The Big Story 
Weekend Edition host Julie Banderas, speculated on whether there was any 
truth to the baseless reports and statements from unidentified "experts" 
that Saddam Hussein's alleged stockpile of weapons of mass destruction 
was secretly transported to Syria prior to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of 
Iraq and "might have been put in the hands of Hezbollah." Throughout the 
segment, the onscreen text read: "Are Saddam Hussein's WMDs Now in 
Hezbollah's Hands?"

During the report, Banderas endeavored to "separate fact from fiction." 
Not mentioned at any time during the segment was the fact that the Iraq 
Survey Group's final report, commonly known as the Duelfer report, 
included no evidence that any secret transfer of weapons from Iraq to 
Syria had ever taken place.

From the July 21 edition of The Big Story with John Gibson:

GIBSON: It has been claimed by several individuals that Saddam Hussein 
smuggled his weapons of mass destruction out to Syria before the U.S. 
invaded Iraq. Now, one report suggests these WMDs might have been put in 
the hands of Hezbollah in order to strike Israel. Here, now, the host of 
The Big Story Weekend Edition, Julie Banderas. So, what do we know?

BANDERAS: All right, John. Well, this just adds to the "what ifs" -- I 
mean, scary "what ifs." You know, what if Hezbollah had chemical 
weapons? While, it's, of course, purely speculative right now, it is a 
definite possibility, and so is the possibility of Israeli troops 
carrying out ground invasions into Lebanon. We've been watching them 
massing up and lining up along the Lebanon border today. But if they do 
go in, the worry is: What awaits them on the other side? 

Now, you may remember yesterday Al Jazeera television airing an 
interview with Hassan Nasrallah -- he's the leader of Hezbollah -- and 
he warns, "We have a number of surprises up our sleeves." What's he 
talking about? What does that mean? Well, John, there's widespread 
concern that could mean weapons of mass destruction.

So, here's what we do know. OK, let's try to separate fact from fiction 
here. Syria does have chemical weapons. Six months ago, in fact, former 
Iraqi general Georges Sada told Fox that Saddam Hussein had his WMD 
program flown out of Iraq and into Syria before we invaded Iraq. General 
Sada also says it was flown out on a series of 747 flights. Civilian 
aircraft were used; the seats were taken out, replaced with chemical 
weapons. That means the documentation, the test equipment, the 
production equipment, everything and anything that had to do with Saddam 
Hussein's WMD program was flown to Syria.

And we also know this. As you know, Iran, it funds Hezbollah, giving 
them over $100 million a year. Iran wants nuclear weapons; Iran supports 
Syria. Some experts say if Hezbollah has any WMDs and uses them that 
they'll probably trace back to Iraq, possibly, and keep Syria's hands 
clean of this.

GIBSON: Yeah.

BANDERAS: Could you imagine that possibility?

GIBSON: Well, Syria's hands wouldn't be clean, but sure, it's a 
possibility, especially if that stuff was taken out of Iraq and into 
Syria. Julie Banderas, thank you very much.

© 2006 Media Matters for America.

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