Posted on 10/26/2004 8:57:22 PM PDT by PowerPro
On Friday (April 4, 2003), troops at a training facility in the western Iraqi desert came across a bottle labeled "tabun" -- a nerve gas and chemical weapon Iraq is banned from possessing.
Closer to Baghdad, troops at Iraq's largest military industrial complex found nerve agent antidotes, documents describing chemical warfare and a white powder that appeared to be used for explosives.
U.N. weapons inspectors went repeatedly to the vast al Qa Qaa complex -- most recently on March 8 (2003) -- but found nothing during spot visits to some of the 1,100 buildings at the site 25 miles south of Baghdad.
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Peabody told an Associated Press reporter that troops at al Qa Qaa also discovered atropine, used to counter the effects of nerve agents, and 2-PAM chloride, which is used in combination with atropine in case of chemical attack.
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(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
So apparently they accidentally tripped over the atropine while on their "pit stop".
Well, sorry New York Slimes. This is the record.
Let's get this report off to EVERYONE in the media and show Jean Francois Kerre for the opportunistic loser that he is!!!
Archives are our friends. :o)
And to think when the TM thread referred to these stories about discovered weapons caches we were called tin foilers.
This doesn't count because the msm was unable to report findings of WMD related materials such as deadly tabun and all of the atropine stored at the scene. the fact there were previously explosives there is all that matters. (scarcasm/off)
I think there will be a backlash for this. (hope the American public is smart enough to see through this.)
Was On Captain Ed's site, and he had a story from CBS (yes, that CBS) regarding a thorough inspection of AL QAAQAA from April 4, 2003:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/04/iraq/main547667.shtml
Seems as though CBS cannot even check its own site for rebuttal to hit pieces.
Guys (and girls)
The million dollar question is WHEN did al Baradei actually inventory this stuff?
Not after Nov 2002 he didn't.
We need to spread this story to the news media (who apparently don't know how to check their own archives) and end this horrendous lie!
Troops of the 3ID discovered thousands of boxes, each with three vials of white powder, the form in which the explosive agents that the IAEA claim went missing were stored. From this description, it sounds as if the material left at Al Qaqaa would have only been samples or starter materials, as storing 380 tons of powdered explosive in vials would have taken most of Baghdad to store.
Nevertheless, the contemporaneous CBS report showed that the 3ID knew what they had at Al Qaqaa and did more than just a cursory look around the joint to go sightseeing. They suspected that the facility held WMD or chemical-weapons manufacturing capability. A bottle labeled "tabun," a nerve agent, was found with a small amount of the chemical inside. The troops also discovered atropine stored at the bunker, an antidote for nerve agents, making them very suspicious of the shells stored at Al Qaqaa.
I like.
How about this one per someone over at SwiftVets:
Rather than MSM, we should dub them the CLM.
CORRUPT LIBERAL MEDIA
that's for sure
This whole thing makes me sick. Thanks for the heads up on this story.
This is a great find, and over there at the DU the al qua qa is hitting the fan.
are they specifically mentioning the articles being found by freepers???
I just logged on to DU (and will be taking a shower using Brillo pads in a few minutes) and I didn't see much of anything there.
What is the thread title? Let me know and I'll brave it again...
P.S. - what a crappy bboard system they have...
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