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Horrifying US Secret Weapon Unleashed In Baghdad [Tank Mounted Radioactive Lightning Bolts! Yay!]
The Truth Seeker ^ | 8/25/03 | Bill Dash

Posted on 12/11/2003 7:12:10 AM PST by TastyManatees

Horrifying US Secret Weapon Unleashed In Baghdad
Exclusive By Bill Dash
c. 2003 All Rights Reserved
8-25-03

A nightmarish US super weapon reportedly was employed by American ground forces during chaotic street fighting in Baghdad. The secret tank-mounted weapon was witnessed in all its frightening power by Majid al-Ghazali, a seasoned Iraqi infantryman who described the device and its gruesome effects as unlike anything he had ever encountered in his lengthy military service. The disturbing revelation is yet another piece of cinematic evidence brought back from postwar Iraq by intrepid filmmaker Patrick Dillon.

In the film, al-Ghazali, whose english is less than fluent, describes the weapon as reminiscent of a flame thrower, only immensely more powerful. It is unclear what principle the weapon is based on. Searching for a description, al-Ghazali said it appeared to be shooting concentrated lightning bolts rather than just ordinary flames. Drawing on his many years as a professional engineer, al-Ghazali speculates that radiation of some kind probably figures into the weapon's hideous capabilities. Like all men in Saddam's Iraq, al-Ghazali was compelled to serve in the Iraqi equivalent of the Army National Guard and fought in three wars over the past thirty-odd years. Via email, he told me he has seen virtually every type of conventional weapon employed in battle, and is well acquainted with their effects on people and machines, but nothing in his extensive combat experience prepared him for the shock of what he saw in Baghdad on April 12th.

On that date, al-Ghazali and his family sheltered in their house as a fierce street battle erupted in his neighborhood. In the midst of the fighting, he noticed that the Americans had called up an oddly configured tank. Then to his amazement the tank suddenly let loose a blinding stream of what seemed like fire and lightning, engulfing a large passenger bus and three automobiles. Within seconds the bus had become semi-molten, sagging "like a wet rag" as he put it. He said the bus rapidly melted under this withering blast, shrinking until it was a twisted blob about the dimensions of a VW bug. As if that were not bizarre enough, al-Ghazali explicitly describes seeing numerous human bodies shriveled to the size of newborn babies. By the time local street fighting ended that day, he estimates between 500 and 600 soldiers and civilians had been cooked alive as a result of the mysterious tank-mounted device.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bolts; crispycritters; heat; heatround; hoaxes; insane; lightning; myths; rumormill; rumors; rumours; secret; tank; weapon; zot
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To: Riley
This smells bogus.

Understatement of the week.

21 posted on 12/11/2003 7:23:28 AM PST by Constitution Day (Thomas: "Apparently, the marketplace of ideas is to be fully open only to defamers, nude dancers...")
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To: Riley
No way! Our superweapons will rain destruction on our enemies!

Tasty Manatees
22 posted on 12/11/2003 7:23:43 AM PST by TastyManatees (http://www.tastymanatees.com)
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To: TastyManatees
eat sand.
23 posted on 12/11/2003 7:24:15 AM PST by Wheee The People (If this post doesn't make any sense, then it also doubles as a bump.)
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To: TastyManatees
The military has obviously stolen the FR moderator zot technology.
24 posted on 12/11/2003 7:24:42 AM PST by Coop (God bless our troops!)
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To: TastyManatees

25 posted on 12/11/2003 7:25:00 AM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: Incorrigible


26 posted on 12/11/2003 7:25:19 AM PST by Incorrigible
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To: TastyManatees
And the drivers of the tanks wore strange uniforms of blue, tightly fitted, with a red cape at the shoulders and a mysterious 'S' emblazoned in the chest.
27 posted on 12/11/2003 7:25:35 AM PST by toomuchcoffee
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To: TastyManatees
Now, that's a ZOT!
28 posted on 12/11/2003 7:25:48 AM PST by Pan_Yans Wife ("Your joy is your sorrow unmasked." --- GIBRAN)
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To: TastyManatees
Wonderful! It's always helpful for the bad guys to think you have supernatural powers.
29 posted on 12/11/2003 7:26:31 AM PST by r9etb
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To: M1Tanker
And more American National Socialist leftist eager to portray the US in the worst light possible.

Don't you mean in the "worst lightening possible?" Anyone for marshmellows?

30 posted on 12/11/2003 7:26:55 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: Dog; Neets; Bitwhacker; JRandomFreeper; lysie; b4its2late; lepton; Lazamataz; MozartLover; ...
:-)
31 posted on 12/11/2003 7:27:23 AM PST by kayak (The Vast, Right-Wing Conspiracy is truly Vast! ~ JohnHuang2)
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To: TastyManatees

Military-grade ZOT <|:)~

32 posted on 12/11/2003 7:27:43 AM PST by martin_fierro (Ohhh... ehhh... ¿Peeka Panish?)
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To: TastyManatees
I guess we retro-engineered the technology from the heat-ray used by the robots in "Target Earth."
33 posted on 12/11/2003 7:27:49 AM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: TastyManatees
This is a true story. I developed this weapon. I have a sidearm version but the power pack weighs several tons.
34 posted on 12/11/2003 7:28:52 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Ignorance can be corrected with knowledge. Stupid is permanent.)
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To: TastyManatees
They are really lucky we had mercy on them and didnt release our secret desert weapon...
The "Graboids"....the documentary "Tremors" was double top secret and unfortunately released
and many copies circulated by WallMart and Blockbuster...
If these ever get released in the middle east....man o man...the horror the horror
35 posted on 12/11/2003 7:29:11 AM PST by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: TastyManatees

36 posted on 12/11/2003 7:29:12 AM PST by ArrogantBustard
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To: Constitution Day
Reporting for dooty! :)


37 posted on 12/11/2003 7:29:19 AM PST by TheBigB (Just because you talk slower...doesn't mean your thoughts are any deeper...)
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To: TastyManatees; Jim Robinson
ZOT!

JimRob holds the patent to this device.

38 posted on 12/11/2003 7:29:34 AM PST by Lazamataz (Hillary Clinton is a CLINQUANT without the LINQA.)
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To: dighton; BlueLancer; aculeus; Poohbah; hellinahandcart; Thinkin' Gal
In case anyone was still wondering what to get me for Christmas....well, here you go. One of these would be perfect for the afternoon commute, I think...
39 posted on 12/11/2003 7:29:57 AM PST by general_re (Knife goes in, guts come out! That's what Osaka Food Concern is all about!)
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To: dead
< cartman > kick ass < /cartman >
40 posted on 12/11/2003 7:30:20 AM PST by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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