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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: TastyManatees
...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.

I MUST aquire one of these!

41 posted on 12/11/2003 7:30:21 AM PST by Orangedog (difference between a hamster & a gerbil?..there's more dark-meat on a hamster!)
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To: TastyManatees
Oh, they're putting the radioactive lightning bolt generators on tanks now?

I already know about the shoulder-launched version of this weapon, which was issued last March to the top secret Delta Force/"Spirit Warriors" Brigade (which was deployed in the netherworld to ambush the souls of Jihadis before they got to paradise).

I understand they're coming out with a civilian version as soon as the "assault weapons" ban sunsets... Don't bother getting one for deer season, though, I understand it ruins the meat pretty bad.

42 posted on 12/11/2003 7:32:02 AM PST by Kenton (This space for rent)
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To: Riley
Somebody has been reading from the "X-Men", or watching "Mutant X". Check to see if this came from The Onion.
43 posted on 12/11/2003 7:32:21 AM PST by alloysteel
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To: TastyManatees
We Are Your Overlords...

Ahhhhhh Ahhhh Ahhhhhhhhh...AH!!!

Ahhhhhh Ahhhh Ahhhhhhhhh...AH!!!

44 posted on 12/11/2003 7:32:25 AM PST by AngryJawa ("The bang is great, but the shockwave is where it’s at.")
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To: Eaker; humblegunner; TexasCowboy; Flyer
Y'all, we really need one of these..........
45 posted on 12/11/2003 7:32:41 AM PST by HoustonCurmudgeon (PEACE - Through Superior Firepower)
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To: TastyManatees
Obviously made from all that secret, stolen Nicholas Tesla technology. Tesla was a stranded alien fron the Pleides Cluster, don'tcha know. I heard about it on Art Bell. {/Tinfoil}.

[### I'm back from Berlin ###]

46 posted on 12/11/2003 7:34:51 AM PST by DoctorMichael (Thats my story, and I'm sticking to it.)
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To: TheBigB
I want one of these on my next car!
47 posted on 12/11/2003 7:35:32 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: TastyManatees
UH oh, the truth is out -- We have DARK JEDI on our side!
48 posted on 12/11/2003 7:36:40 AM PST by commish (Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)
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To: Conspiracy Guy
This is a true story. I developed this weapon. I have a sidearm version but the power pack weighs several tons.

Couldn't weigh any more than my CZ 75. 8^)

49 posted on 12/11/2003 7:36:41 AM PST by AngryJawa ("The bang is great, but the shockwave is where it’s at.")
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To: Constitution Day
The lightning gun or the VK patch? ;-)
50 posted on 12/11/2003 7:36:43 AM PST by TheBigB (Just because you talk slower...doesn't mean your thoughts are any deeper...)
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To: TastyManatees
Well, just zots. Doctor Frankenstein and I were so close. We had taken a wrecked tank and were going to make it come alive tonight in a thunderstorm.
On to the Smurfs blue beam weapon of death.
Best wishes
Igor
51 posted on 12/11/2003 7:37:09 AM PST by em2vn
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To: TastyManatees
What is this guy smoking???
52 posted on 12/11/2003 7:37:32 AM PST by fightu4it (conquest by immigration and subversion spells the end of US.)
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To: AngryJawa
All your bases are belong to us....
53 posted on 12/11/2003 7:37:57 AM PST by alloysteel
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To: TastyManatees
Ah, they have had a taste of our new Plasma Gun.
54 posted on 12/11/2003 7:38:53 AM PST by Little Ray (When in trouble, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout!)
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To: TheBigB
The lightning gun!!
55 posted on 12/11/2003 7:39:08 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: TastyManatees

56 posted on 12/11/2003 7:42:08 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: kayak
Zots gotta hurt!!
57 posted on 12/11/2003 7:45:09 AM PST by lysie
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To: dawn53; general_re; Thinkin' Gal; TastyManatees; All
I think the Israeli's must have helped us develop this weapon.

The Israeli version is somewhat more humane. It hypnotizes before zotting.

;-)

58 posted on 12/11/2003 7:45:31 AM PST by dighton
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To: TastyManatees

59 posted on 12/11/2003 7:48:57 AM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: martin_fierro
"And in the night, they followed a Pillar of Fire..."
60 posted on 12/11/2003 7:49:11 AM PST by 50sDad ("You used ALL THE GLUE on PURPOSE! It's a MAJOR AWARD!")
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