Posted on 06/30/2005 8:14:43 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
June 30, 2005
Release Number: 05-06-24
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WEAPONS CACHE FOUND
KIRKUK AIR BASE, Iraq – Iraqi citizens assisted Coalition forces in finding more than 4,000 pounds of high explosives, near Kirkuk Air Base over the past two days in two separate incidents.
Officials received a tip from a local Iraqi about buried explosives June 29. Explosive Ordnance Disposal Airmen assigned here found a cache of 400 artillery projectiles buried approximately 12 km south of the base.
In response to another tip June 30, EOD recovered an ammunition cache of approximately 270 artillery projectiles approximately 7 km north of the base.
More than 670 potentially dangerous munitions have been destroyed due to the efforts of Iraqi citizens coming forward with this information.
FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REQUEST PHOTOS OF THE CACHES, CONTACT U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND AIR FORCES FORWARD PUBLIC AFFAIRS AT PAO@AUAB.CENTAF.AF.MIL
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WOO-HOO!
Still no weapons of mass destruction. Withdraw now!
:) HA! Just kidding!
It's great news.
I'm proud of the Iraqi's efforts to take control of their long-suffering country. God Bless Our Troops!
Way to go!! Great find!!
This is great news in defeating the enemy of freedom in Iraq.
The jihadist enemy will be defeated!
It is also offered on CDs. ABOUT THE BOOK
Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War
FROM OUR EDITORS
Three New York Times veteran reporters teamed up for this thoughtful and thorough report on bio-terrorism -- from a salmonella attack by cultists in Oregon during the 1980s to the current state of biological weapons.
ANNOTATION
A frightening and unforgettable narrative of cutting-edge science and spycraft, Germs shows us why advances in biology and the spread of germ weapons expertise to such countries as Iran, Iraq, and North Korea could make germs the weapon of the twenty-first century.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
In the wake of the anthrax letters following the attacks on the World Trade Center, Americans have begun to grapple with two difficult truths: that there is no terrorist threat more horrifying -- and less understood -- than germ warfare, and that it would take very little to mount a devastating attack on American soil. In Germs, three veteran reporters draw on top sources inside and outside the U.S. government to lay bare Washington's secret strategies for combating this deadly threat.
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In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, and William Broad of The New York Times uncover the truth about biological weapons and show why bio-warfare and bio-terrorism are fast becoming our worst national nightmare.
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How the Pentagon embarked on a secret effort to make a superbug.
Details about the Soviet Union's massive hidden program to produce biological weapons, including new charges that germs were tested on humans.
How Moscow's scientists made an untraceable germ that instructs the body to destroy itself.
The Pentagon's chaotic efforts to improvise defenses against Iraq's biological weapons during the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
How a religious cult in Oregon in the 1980s sickened hundreds of Americans in a bio-terrorism attack that the government played down to avoid panic and copycat strikes.
Plans by the U.S. military in the 1960s to attack Cuba with germ weapons.
"That is why the terrorists are doomed."
From this article posted last week about terrorists attacking an Iraqi police station....
By 6.30am a police machine-gunner on the roof at Baya'a helped turn the tide, firing volleys which forced attackers to take cover and enabled his comrades to take better positions. Residents of the mixed Shia and Sunni neighbourhood made at least 55 phone calls informing the police of insurgent movements. Some fired on the attackers.
Funny I did not see that in my Boston Globe.
/sarcasm
Excellent!!
Iraqi citizen bump!
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