Posted on 10/19/2014 8:25:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The U.S. Marines who guarded the sprawling complex in northwest Iraq where Saddam Hussein’s 1980s war machine churned out some of the most deadly chemical and biological weapons known to man had a name for one especially mysterious bunker: The Dragon’s Egg.
Although the Americans assigned to the Al Muthanna facility until 2008 were forbidden by superiors from peering inside the bunker, they knew the larger complex’s history. From 1983 to 1990, the brutal dictator’s scientists worked there, developing mustard, sarin, VX and Tabun gases for use on Iranian soldiers and Iraqi Kurds. And although it was under the control of U.S. and Iraqi military forces for most of the last decade, the entire facility - and whatever it held - is now firmly in the grasp of the Islamic State, the terrorist army that has claimed a vast swath of Iraq and Syria and allegedly used chemical weapons against Kurds this summer.
The X-shaped bunker, encased in cement and shrouded in mystery, was one of two that were handled differently from the many other bunkers that made up the facility, according to Lt. Joshua Hartley, who was stationed there in 2008. It was off-limits.
With reports that Islamic State fighters may have used chemical weapons to attack the Syrian city of Kobani earlier this summer, Hartley also wonders if the contents of the mysterious bunker known as Dragon’s Egg have been unleashed.
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Everything you say and cite, I cannot dispute. Based on my 60+ years here on this earth, I’d instinctively say it is all sadly true.
I actually have more respect for a lying, low down snake of a politician than I do have for today’s journalist.
there’s a reason they rate where they do in approval polls. They earned it.
I don’t miss it. There were literally two reporters I worked with in over a decade in media that were actually good people. Good as human beings and good reporters. Thats out of probably over 100.
And FWIW, 1 editor close to worth anything. The rest were as bad as the two reporters mentioned earlier.
Funny, under the Bush Presidency there were no WMD.
It appears that the Obama Presidency created an environment where they could be built.
Obama’s fault.
It is not for nothing that we seem to get all our news from overseas.... and within 2-5 years, the powers will prevent that too.
This is the only good outcome from the rise of ISIS.
I applaud their efforts.
Nossir. The Propaganda Ministry lied then; they are probably lying now too.
Also under the Clinton presidency there were thousands of WMDs. That’s one huge reason why Slick Willy and his minions passed the Saddam Hussein removal act in 1998. Then of course, under Bush, there were no WMDs. Now with King Barack Obola, we’ve got those elusive WMDs again. Funny how that works.
I know what you mean. I’ve spent many years in Canadian journalism and it’s the same. Getting worse, too, as more come out of the school system.
I taught Journalism for a couple of years and would start by playing Don Henley’s “Dirty Laundry” as an introduction. They no longer ask me back.
Cheers,
Jim
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