Posted on 07/21/2004 5:52:33 AM PDT by NY Catholic
BAGHDAD, July 21 (UPI) -- Iraqi security reportedly discovered three missiles carrying nuclear heads concealed in a concrete trench northwest of Baghdad, official sources said Wednesday. 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.
This is the link on Drudge to the UPI report...where in that report does anyone call the story 'Stupid'?
No, Laz is actually a closet NYT Oped writer.
I've been checking UPI for an update but their site seems to be down.
Did any of those make it into "Farenheit 911" by any chance?
Shalom.
bbbttt
If they found missiles that were in a trench shielded by 3 feet of concrete, I'd say it's a significant find.
I've been online for an hour now...I see it's going to be very hard to get any work done today. ;)
Two questions come to mind. If they are the origin point, aren't they a big fat ZERO on both scales?
What would the intersection of the Axis of Evil and the Axis of Weasels be? The metaphysical mystical implications of such an intersection boggle the mind?
Shalom.
6 meters. Not 3 feet. 18 FEET.
1) Get a geiger counter with a probe
2) Stick probe inside the bomb
Said probe will go nuts with radiation.
HOW HARD IS THIS TO DO ?
Precisely what is "stupid."
Getting hold of nuclear missles when the entire world is p*ssed at you?
Hiding them in a bunker near Tikrit?
Revealing that you have them before you know how to fire them?
The report itself.
Shalom.
Gee...think they were trying to hide something?
True, these were nuclear wareheads that were pre-Iran/Iraq war. Also, they were mislabeled "Powdered Milk" so Saddam had no idea he had them. Sort of like a bureaucratic snafu!
So just look away, nothing to see here. I question the timing of this news release. Its all political.
Did I get most of the spin right? I am new here!
It already started over at DUh.com
From Bloomberg article:
The dollar rose to its high for the day of $1.2265 per euro after United Press International, citing a report in the Iraqi newspaper al-Sabah, said Iraqi security forces had found missiles carrying nuclear warheads northwest of Baghdad.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=a3cwJ5Zf.sqo&refer=us
Actually it's 19ft 6inches. A meter is 39inches.
Shalom.
The ones the Polish troops found? I think that they were found to be empty, older shells dating from the Iran-Iraq War.
Denied by the interior ministry as nonsense.
False alarm.
Dang it!
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