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
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Don't see it on DEBKA which means there's something to it.
oh....my.....
now wouldn't this be something?
I'll have to catch up to the thread and see all the pieces brilliant Freepers added to the puzzle :-)
I'm still waiting for major news agencies to question John Kerry's Vietnam War activities (in and out of the service).
P.S. The New York Times, USA Today, and LA Times have all run completely fraudulent stories in the recent past.
This story may never see the light of day again. Maybe the State Department would prefer not to let the muslim world know that "they" had nukes. Pakistan is the nation the have to point to now for personal pride as a nuclear power.
I'm waiting for confirmation from Debka before I get too excited about this.
Well, it's technically the UPI (affiliated with the Times somehow, I believe, through Moon) and they botched the story.
The original article didn't say "official sources" said nukes were found as UPI claims; it says official sources didn't comment, and that the nuke claim was from anonymous "political sources."
Probably not France. I'd guess each and every one has this mug on it:
It's no surprise that the Washington Times is carrying this story. They are one of the few respectable publications remaining... Don't look for the Washington Post, NY Times and others to bother with it unless they are forced to... it doesn't fit their agenda.
The Post and the Times will run with it when they realize it can no longer be ignored, and can not be spun properly. They truly are the lemmings of the leftist media.
They clearly botched the story as I noted, and I suspect "carrying" it won't be anything to be proud of in a few days.
I'd hate to see US newspapers filled with every bit of nonsense that appears in Middle Eastern newspapers every day.
This news still isn't hitting the search engine news services--Yahoo news or Google news.
A couple of degrees of seperation from the facts, there will be follow up and we'll know in a couple of hours if this dog will hunt.
wait are they nuclear, or nucular?
The sources said al-Douri, who is related to former Vice Chairman of the Iraq Revolution Council and Saddam's right-hand man Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, was captured after Iraqi police intercepted an e-mail message in which he set a meeting with another former Baath official
Has Pravda denied it is true yet?
The official daily al-Sabah quoted the sources as saying the missiles were discovered in trenches near the city of Tikrit, the hometown of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
"The three missiles were discovered by chance when the Iraqi security forces captured former Baath party official Khoder al-Douri who revealed during interrogation the location of the missiles saying they carried nuclear heads," the sources said.
They pointed out that the missiles were actually discovered in the trenches lying under six meters of concrete and designed in a way to unable sophisticated sensors from discovering nuclear radiation.
The sources said al-Douri, who is related to former Vice Chairman of the Iraq Revolution Council and Saddam's right-hand man Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, was captured after Iraqi police intercepted an e-mail message in which he set a meeting with another former Baath official.
The report could not be authenticated by the interior ministry or the national security department, but the paper noted Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiar Zibari made a surprise request recently to Mohammed el-Baradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, to resume inspections for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
sent to Iraqi citizen contact to verify
The report could not be authenticated by the interior ministry or the national security department, but the paper noted Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiar Zibari made a surprise request recently to Mohammed el-Baradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, to resume inspections for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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