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Nuclear arms reportedly found in Iraq
UP | july 21 2004 | UPI

Posted on 07/21/2004 5:52:33 AM PDT by NY Catholic

BAGHDAD, July 21 (UPI) -- Iraqi security reportedly discovered three missiles carrying nuclear heads concealed in a concrete trench northwest of Baghdad, official sources said Wednesday. The official daily al-Sabah quoted the sources as saying the missiles were discovered in trenches near the city of Tikrit, the hometown of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. "The three missiles were discovered by chance when the Iraqi security forces captured former Baath party official Khoder al-Douri who revealed during interrogation the location of the missiles saying they carried nuclear heads," the sources said. They pointed out that the missiles were actually discovered in the trenches lying under six meters of concrete and designed in a way to unable sophisticated sensors from discovering nuclear radiation. The sources said al-Douri, who is related to former Vice Chairman of the Iraq Revolution Council and Saddam's right-hand man Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, was captured after Iraqi police intercepted an e-mail message in which he set a meeting with another former Baath official. The report could not be authenticated by the interior ministry or the national security department, but the paper noted Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiar Zibari made a surprise request recently to Mohammed el-Baradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, to resume inspections for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.


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To: ScottFromSpokane
Anonymous third-world officials aren't exactly the most reliable sources

If you read the original Iraqi article, it's not even anonymous third world OFFICIALS; it's anonymous "political sources" who could be basically anybody, the yahoo intern at the from the office of the Iraqi Popular People's Party down the street, etc.

121 posted on 07/21/2004 6:27:40 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: freeperfromnj

so is the big idiot o'reilly going to rescind his initial "apology" about not finding WMDs?


122 posted on 07/21/2004 6:27:41 AM PDT by Stellar Dendrite
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To: epluribus_2
THE UN -- TODAY:


THE UN -- TOMORROW


123 posted on 07/21/2004 6:28:11 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("Then I say unto you, send men to summon ... worms. And let us go to Fallujah to collect heads.")
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To: freeperfromnj

Warner looked like the cat that had swallowed the canary yesterday while giving that press conference after the briefing.

Maybe they disclosed the nuclear find at that briefing?


124 posted on 07/21/2004 6:28:20 AM PDT by dawn53
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To: NY Catholic
Are the bombs composed of plutonium and some old pinball machine parts?


125 posted on 07/21/2004 6:28:22 AM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: theDentist
They are already strongly denying the report.

I guess the Sand Burglar story will have to do...

126 posted on 07/21/2004 6:28:33 AM PDT by demlosers
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To: theDentist

yep. Iraqi interior ministry calls the report "stupid"


127 posted on 07/21/2004 6:28:50 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: JustaCowgirl
Yes, the timing is curious. As the Iraqi-WMD-find takes over, I suppose we're all supposed just to forget the whole Clinton/Bergery thing. That was a pretty slick leak to be blown off the front page a day later! That surely means it was a malicious GOP leak, doesn't it? (/sarcasm)

The Clintons will be laughing about it next week, too, as Billy's recent statements have moved surprisingly close toward partial support of President Bush's actions. BJ's been playing both stories with insider information, methinks.

HF

128 posted on 07/21/2004 6:28:58 AM PDT by holden
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To: XJarhead
Think about it. Saddam has three nuclear missiles, and he buries them under six feet of concrete????It'd be nice if this was true, but the sourcing and the siple unbelievability of the story means its bogus.

We thought this was unbelievable too...

MiG Jet Fighter Found Buried in Iraq

Things that make you go hmmmmmmm.....

129 posted on 07/21/2004 6:29:51 AM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: IamConservative

I don't think we should be waiting for a comment from someone in uniform that will never come. Why you might ask? Well because the mainstream media is NEVER gonna report something this damning, and to make matters worse, with the DNC coming up, they won't even touch this story.

Mike


130 posted on 07/21/2004 6:30:08 AM PDT by mmcclosk
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To: theDentist

The report is a DU plant to take away from the Berger scandal. As you can already see, the Berger thing has been effectively buried.

Kerry no longer claims him, Clinton is lauding him and the left is turning him into a victim. This so reeks of memogate of last year which Hannity got his hands on. The RATS commit a crime then blame the Republicans for getting their hands on the evidence.

That is why we need a national newspaper. To counter the RATS monopoly of the print media. WABC and FOX took care of the other two outlets.


131 posted on 07/21/2004 6:30:26 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("John Kerry does not want to lead this country, he wants to be president.")
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To: 12B
What, exactly, is a "nuclear head"

Next step up from a "Monica"...?

132 posted on 07/21/2004 6:30:47 AM PDT by EUPHORIC (Right? Left? Read Ecclesiastes 10:2 for a definition. The Bible knows all about it!)
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To: Numbers Guy

Saddam's not really an exploiter, he's a planner and a sneak attacker and literally owned his loyalists. He trusted no one!!!!!! (Except Dan Blather).


133 posted on 07/21/2004 6:31:10 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: theDentist
"They are already strongly denying the report.

Who are "they"?

134 posted on 07/21/2004 6:32:08 AM PDT by Reo
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To: babble-on

That doesn't surprise me. There's no way this report is accurate.


135 posted on 07/21/2004 6:32:35 AM PDT by Bonaventure
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To: mmcclosk

Story is being discredited by Reuters right now..


136 posted on 07/21/2004 6:32:38 AM PDT by IamConservative (A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.)
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To: NY Catholic

Democrats question timing: "Revealing this in an election year, just before the release
of the 9/11 Commission report and the Kerry convention is highly suspicious."


137 posted on 07/21/2004 6:33:18 AM PDT by OESY
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To: ArGee

http://www.jrwhipple.com/war/frog_humor.html


138 posted on 07/21/2004 6:33:46 AM PDT by Search4Truth (When a man lies he murders some part of the world.)
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To: ArGee
I thought France was the head nation of the Axis of Weasels. Can you belong to two Axes (Axises?) at the same time?

Yes, you can be on two axes. It's called the origin point.

139 posted on 07/21/2004 6:34:56 AM PDT by doc30
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To: Lurking in Kansas

The Dims need to send 'The Berglar' into Iraq to 'inadvertantly' put the nukes in his pants.


140 posted on 07/21/2004 6:35:29 AM PDT by mlbford2 (Sorry for spelling errors, I'm a product of a state university)
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