So very true!
Lookie here! A CBS 2003 story:
U.S. troops found thousands of boxes of white powder, nerve agent antidote and Arabic documents on how to engage in chemical warfare at an industrial site south of Baghdad. But a senior U.S. official familiar with initial testing said the materials were believed to be explosives.
Col. John Peabody, engineer brigade commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, said the materials were found Friday at the Latifiyah industrial complex just south of Baghdad.
"It is clearly a suspicious site," Peabody said.
CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin reports that the hunt for weapons of mass destruction continues at sites where the U.S. thought chemicals weapons might be hidden.
"And although there are no reports of actual weapons being found, there are constant finds of suspicious material," Martin said. "It obviously will take laboratory testing to find out exactly what that powder is."
The senior U.S. official, based in Washington and speaking on condition of anonymity, said the material was under further study. The site is enormous and U.S. troops are still investigating it for potential weapons of mass destruction, the official said.
"Initial reports are that the material is probably just explosives, but we're still going through the place," the official said.
Peabody said troops found thousands of boxes, each of which contained three vials of white powder, together with documents written in Arabic that dealt with how to engage in chemical warfare.
He also said they discovered atropine, used to counter the effects of nerve agents.
The facility had been identified by the International Atomic Energy Agency as a suspected chemical, biological and nuclear weapons site. U.N. inspectors visited the plant at least nine times, including as recently as Feb. 18.
The facility is part of a larger complex known as the Latifiyah Explosives and Ammunition Plant al Qa Qaa.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1257780/posts
I haven't been able to follow the al QauQa (All KaKa?) story much. So I don't get the point of your find.
Doesn't that mean the cache WAS there when our troops arrived? If it's now missing, can they pin the failure to secure on OUR troops?
Help me...I've fallen on this story and I can't get up!
I'm just now catching up on the thread - been down in Texas helping plan the parents 50th wedding anniv party.
RE: your post on Al Qa Qa or whatever it's called -- the post mentions vials of atropine. The ONLY reason to have vials of atropine around is to counteract the effects of certain nerve agents.