WELL, WELL let's see how this pans out!!!
Posted on 07/20/2004 11:14:11 PM PDT by propertius
Edited on 07/21/2004 11:16:05 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Update from Wash Times: A U.S. military spokesman in Tikrit told United Press International that the report was untrue. "Nothing's been found. The report is not factual," said Master Sgt. Robert Cowens, a spokesman for the 1st Infantry Division... A spokesman with Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's office told UPI that the report concerning the alleged missiles and warheads emerged "while gathering information for Saddam Hussein's tribunal" during the interrogation of a captured former official of Saddam's regime.
Al Sabah, the Iraqi newspaper funded by the Coalition Provisional Authority, reports on its front page this morning that a former senior Ba'ath party activist has led coalition troops to three nuclear warheads hidden in a bunker.
Will post translation when we have it.
To: All
Here is story in full:
Headline: Khidhur (or Khidhir) al-Douri, back from the dead, reveals three nuclear missiles
Sources in the Interior ministry and the National Security Advisor's Office refused to comment on news reports that three missiles with nuclear warheads had been seized during the arrest of Khidhur al-Douri, the former Ba'ath party member.
Iraqi political sources, who requested anonimity, inisisted that Iraqi security authorities arrested al-Douri and seized the missiles.
The same sources told al-Sabah that al-Douri, who held meany Ba'ath party positions during the former regime, was falsely pronounced dead on its demise. Forged death certificates had been circulated.
He was arrested in an area between Oja and al-Dour, in Salahidine province.
The same sources said three missiles were found with nuclear heads attached in a tunnel six metres underground.
A cement layer six metres thick had been built over the tunnel to hide it from scientific ray detection that could detect the radiation emitted by the nuclear heads.
The tunnel leading to the three missiles is connected to a small hole that opens out on the main road between Ouja and Dour.
The sources said al-Douri was arrested after sending an email, specifying the location and a meeting place in Tikrit.
Authorities analysed the message. Iraqi forces then moved into the area, laying a trap that snared al-Douri and his son.
Al-Douri then revealed the location of the missiles. Various light weapons and money was also seized during the operation.
ENDS
171 posted on 07/21/2004 12:00:20 AM PDT by propertius
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I agreee
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You should read Rich Lowry's piece.
Of course the timing will be termed "suspicious", but anything that happens between now and the election will be termed "suspicious."
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/richlowry/rl20040719.shtml
Very Interesting! Any American news media reports yet?
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Ha! That's right. I mean, after all, it's only three nuclear warheads. Maybe they're from the early 90s too. Nothing more innocuous than weapons that date back to the early 90s in small quantities.
It will be interesting to see if this turns out to be true.
Yes PJ they are corrupt at the highest levels! How can you trust them beyond a reasonable about the WMD? Don't take any wooden nickels.
The libs have been prepping their if-we-find-WMD-we'll-claim-Bush-planted-it strategy since well before the war actually started... all they have to do is follow the playbook, which is the first and only skill needed to be a liberal.
In the Arab world it's not 2003 yet. It's not even 1003.
There is a Dr Muzher Nu'man Wahib al-Douri, ballistics expert, former head of cabinet of vice-president Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri. ...
WELL, WELL let's see how this pans out!!!
It's logically impossible to prove a negative anyway. However remote the prospects for finding WMD may have been, this was always a foolish peg for the Left to choose to hang its hat.
Hey, it was printed in an Iraqi newspaper, that should be all the credibility you need :-)
Are we going around in circles? All I am suggesting is, the more you have something to hide, the deeper you might bury it, and cover it with six metres of concrete to avoid detection.
As so many other weapons, call them bombs, missiles, anti-aircraft or otherwise, were barely concealed or stockpiled in open dumps, is it too much to speculate that the items referred to in this report possibly are missiles armed with nuclear warheads?
I don't have to figure out which side I'm on. I have been following Saddam's 'career' for a number of years and have always been convinced he would stop at nothing to carry out his ambition of becoming ruler of the entire ME.
If true, this story could only get better if it's found that French technology and parts were used to construct the weapons.
Only if it's true. That remains to be seen. I'm rather skeptical.
bump awaiting confirmation
--Boot Hill
You never know, it could be true. And it's an extremely important event if it is true. But more likely, this is just a phony tabloid-type story used to sell papers. I would bet they have trashy tabloid papers in Iraq just as we have here.
You are probably right.
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