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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This will be the second story following the Berger lead story on the LSM....NOT!
My head hurts. Time out.....
It's a real story...hmmmmm. Very sketchy to say the least. But I'm an optimist. It's bedtime in Australia, and when I wake up tomorrow, there will be photographs!
Let's get real here... What's Arabic for horse****?
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The word is HASAN (hard S)
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Bush was right ping. Did any of you see this thread yet? Very interesting development.
Sorry...
HISAN (horse in Arabic)
I used to sing the Mr Ed song in Arabic in language class. Suprisingly, Horse and Of Course nearly rhyme in Arabic as well..
I'm with you. Just one more item on Saddam's wish-list. I recall reading that Iraq's gold reserves were found to be gilt covered copper ingots. We really have no idea yet, just what was going on in that country. Enough money can buy anything. A man who 'needed' 54 palaces also 'needs' the best weapons money can buy, regardless if he can actually put them to use. It's just an arab ego-thing I guess.
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"scientific ray detection" ? ?
Former Iraqi military officers have described a highly secret terrorist training facility at Salman Pak (near Baghdad), where both Iraqis and non-Iraqi Arabs receive training on hijacking planes and trains, planting explosives in cities, sabotage, and assassinations.
Terrorists from around the world rehearsed airline hijackings aboard a parked Boeing 707 that bore an eerie resemblance to what transpired on 9/11.
"We could see them train around the fuselage," one of the defectors, a five-year veteran of the camp, told the paper. "We could see them practice taking over the plane."
CIA Director James Woolsey is apparently convinced it was used to rehearse Sept. 11-style hijackings. In late November he told Fox News Channel's Laurie Dhue:
"We know that at Salman Pak, on the southern edge of Baghdad, five different eyewitnesses - three Iraqi defectors and two American U.N. inspectors - have said - and now there are aerial photographs to show it - a Boeing 707 that was used for training of hijackers, including non-Iraqi hijackers trained very secretly to take over airplanes with knives."
http://cshink.com/salman_pak.htm
Once again, the bumbling Bush administration would present us Lucy Van Pelt's football. In a dubious find, three fully functional nuclear weapons were discovered in Saddam Hussein's private bath.
Yet we are left to ask ourselves -- is a three a 'stockpile'? While nuclear weapons can be a little destructive, are they truly weapons of 'mass' destruction? And, if they haven't been used, don't they prove that Saddam was planning to peacefully acquire these weapons, but never use them?
In Abu Gharib, Iraqi prisoners were made to wear panties on their head. Who is the real terrorist here? George W. Bush!
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When are we ever going to learn something from the Clinton's. It doesn't matter if this story is true or not. It is the seriousness of the charges not the facts. We need to promote and scream this from the tallest towers in the country. All you need is 10% of the sheeple to buy the story and it becomes a fact.
Thanks for the ping. Well, gee, I wonder why we haven't seen this on the news?? I mean, the networks report everything from Al Ja-Smear-A as fact, but not this?? OH!! I forgot - this would make Bush look GOOD!!!
We must realize that Saddam was merely protecting himself and his country from vast Zionist military threats. Suicide bombers have no other means of making their point, like our own Revolutionaries.
Nooooo, say it ain't sooooooo....
If the libs have another day like yesterday's Berger disaster, they'll be jumping off overpasses and tall buildings in droves....
And we'll have to clean up the mess.
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Either that or "dirty" bombs, ie conventional bombs filled with nuclear material that would spread when the bomb is detonated.
....if the find will be confirmed of course.
If any major news outlet would report this as a top story before the RAT's convention, can you imagine the spin the left would try? I would like to see the reaction of Blather, Broke-Kaw and PETA Jennings if this breaks before the convention. Be a good day to see what Laura, Rush and Hannity have to say.
http://www.alsabaah.com/20040721/english.htm
It's poorly translated, but here is what it says:
KHUDIR AL- DORI UNVEILS THREE HIDDEN NUCLEAR MISSILES Baghdad, As-Sabah , July 21, Page 1 The official sources at the ministry of interior and the national security advisor department have refrained commenting on the news of seizing three missiles of nuclear heads in the course of arresting Khudir al- Dori the former leader at the dissolved Baath party.Notably, Iraqi political sources on anonymity affirmed that the detaining of al- Dori by the Iraqi security departments resulted in the seize of three nuclear heads missiles .The sources indicated that Khudir al- Dori occupied top party and security posts during ex-regime. Al-Dori death announced after the collapse of the regime and counterfeiting death certificate issued for him. He was arrested in the site situated between Oja and Al-Dor .The sources were quoted as saying that these nuclear missiles were found in tunnel underground at six meters length were covered carefully to mislead sensitive scientific apparatuses detecting for these weapons.
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