Posted on 07/21/2004 4:15:51 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
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.
I agree. This is a story that may not pan out. We'll have to see if it does, but this news paper is probably every bit as reliable as, say, the NYT.
Ever see "Three Kings"?
Tech. advisors for the film (screenplay) tried to inject a sense of all the underground bunkers in Iraq.
I didn't watch the whole movie. I thought it was too much a Liberal Moore-like movie.
Yes, but even if there are nukes, they were old nukes from the first gulf war so Bush still lied.
I saw it before I grew to detest G. Clooney.
It is the desert. I wouldn't be surprised by the concrete bunkers, but who built the nukes? Is the engineer on the loose, or working for Bin Laden?
This is pure speculation, but I never understood why Saddam would have to build one. Why couldn't he buy one? When you're that rich, you can buy a lot of things.
heeheheheeee
Wanna bet.
I don't read it that way. First, a buried missile sans nuclear warhead does not need to be shielded from "ensitive scientific apparatuses". Secondly, the term "missile" outside the US is often used to describe bombs and other flying weapons that would absolutely not be described as a missile over here. The article's mangled expression "three missiles of nuclear heads" sounds to me to mean something more like "three nuclear warheads". However, I suspect that neither the reporter nor his source have the ability to determine whether these are in fact nuclear warheads.
All that being said, I think there is at best tiny chance that whatever may have be found will actually be anything like an operable nuclear device. I suspect that we will here nothing more about this "find". Pinging DEBKA...
Bump.
bump for later
First of all, what is a nuclear missile? A missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead? A missile with a live, functional nuclear warhead?
These things are not exactly easy to manufacture and transport. Where did it come from. The only plausible source would be the former Soviet Union. I would speculate that anything purchased on the black market would be a fraud.
They are sooooo....predictable.
FRegards,
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5731553
"Iraq Interior Ministry Says Report on Nukes 'Stupid'"
Reuters is debunking the report, but then again they have proved the have an agenda also...
BUMP!!!!
Oh Dear Lord, PLEASE let it be true!
Enough of the whining and Bush-bashing. This oughtta shut some people up.
And,if it is true, it should make the rest of us scream from the rooftops...."SEEEEEE!!!!?????? WE TOLD YA SO!!!"
I suspect they found something, but who knows if it's nuclear warheads or not. This may well be why Iraq requested the weapons inspectors to come back in.
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