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Is this one of Saddam's mobile bio-weapons labs?
World Net Daily ^

Posted on 10/06/2004 12:20:38 PM PDT by mrplind

A trailer found by the U.S. in Northern Iraq last year likely was used by Saddam Hussein's regime as a mobile biological weapons laboratory, and not to fill hydrogen balloons as some in Britain and the U.S. have charged, a view supported by exclusive photos obtained by WorldNetDaily that for the first time offer inside views of the trailer components.

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TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: iraq; mobilelabs

1 posted on 10/06/2004 12:20:38 PM PDT by mrplind
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To: mrplind

Anyone who knows about chemicals got any idea why something that fills up weather balloons would need such a cleansing with a caustic cleansing agent?


2 posted on 10/06/2004 12:29:33 PM PDT by Rippin
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To: mrplind

Is this a reliable source?


3 posted on 10/06/2004 12:43:39 PM PDT by gilliam
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What does ISG report say about it?

Even if this is true, if the authoritative Iraqi Survey Group says it was not WMDs, you'll not convince anybody.


4 posted on 10/06/2004 12:47:34 PM PDT by WOSG (George W Bush / Dick Cheney - Right for our Times!)
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To: mrplind

i have seen pics of this before last year on fox news (go figure) this is nothing new. the media just tries to put a blanket over it.


5 posted on 10/06/2004 12:48:10 PM PDT by erik22lax
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Don't ya know that contries spend millions on portable generators to fill balloons? Ya know that the gases can't be carried in pressure bottles! Lord knows they need the stuff in iraq, since they are a heavy consumer of balloons!

(he-yuck)


6 posted on 10/06/2004 12:48:36 PM PDT by Edgerunner (Might doesn't make right, RIGHT MAKES MIGHT)
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To: mrplind

A bio lab could fit in a Ford Pinto, but that would be taking a hugh chance on losing the investment.


7 posted on 10/06/2004 12:50:19 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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To: mrplind

No its an ice cream truck that Saddam sent to poor neighborhoods to give children free treats. CBS has the documents proving this. </sarcasm


8 posted on 10/06/2004 12:56:21 PM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: mrplind
The MSM had a peek at this and completely dismissed it IIRC.

A cammoed hydrogen ballon lab on wheels? With Saddam's defense co stamped on it?

This administration (and all good conservatives) are being held to the highest degree of certainty by the MSM.

Kerry gets a pass on his crimes against his country. Berger gets a pass stealing from the LoC. Hillary...don't cross her...she might have you commit suicide.

9 posted on 10/06/2004 1:01:05 PM PDT by southernbuck
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To: Rippin

I've released a number of them, they use Helium only.


10 posted on 10/06/2004 1:02:43 PM PDT by Amish with an attitude (If Skerry wins...we all loose.)
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Several of the laboratory components have serial numbers that were traced to German companies, where some of the parts were manufactured. One device, a generator coming from one of the pumps, was made by General Electric.

NBC and the krauts, figures. It was very curious at the time how adamantly the left wanted to dismiss this thing as having anything to do with WMDs. This was the cleanest most disinfected thing that has ever been seen in Iraq.

11 posted on 10/06/2004 1:05:33 PM PDT by Jim_Curtis (Liberals lie at the premise, accept their premise and you can only lose the argument.)
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To: mrplind
labs
12 posted on 10/06/2004 1:35:17 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: southernbuck
A cammoed hydrogen ballon lab on wheels? With Saddam's defense co stamped on it?

That part's not a good argument. Most everything in the U.S. Army that may be outside is camo'd, no matter how trivial. Even MRE packaging is colored.

The trailer, as I understand, was sold to them as a bio truck by the Germans - that's why we had drawings that perfectly matched the layout.

13 posted on 10/07/2004 1:32:57 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Amish with an attitude
I've released a number of them, they use Helium only.

That's a U.S. thing. Many countries use Hydrogen. The U.S. has lots of access to helium, which many other countries don't have - it's one of our natural resources.

14 posted on 10/07/2004 1:34:10 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

True, I thought about that as I hit the send button.

Hydrogen has more lifting power too.


15 posted on 10/07/2004 1:43:14 PM PDT by Amish with an attitude (If Skerry wins...we all loose.)
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