Posted on 10/25/2004 12:05:44 PM PDT by OXENinFLA
As the military advances closer to Baghdad, signs of Iraqi chemical preparedness are multiplying, although there is still no conclusive evidence Saddam Hussein's regime possesses weapons of mass destruction.
On Friday, troops at a training facility in the western Iraqi desert came across a bottle labeled "tabun" -- a nerve gas and chemical weapon Iraq is banned from possessing.
Closer to Baghdad, troops at Iraq's largest military industrial complex found nerve agent antidotes, documents describing chemical warfare and a white powder that appeared to be used for explosives.
U.N. weapons inspectors went repeatedly to the vast al Qa Qaa complex -- most recently on March 8 -- but found nothing during spot visits to some of the 1,100 buildings at the site 25 miles south of Baghdad.
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I just saw it ...
I may not be getting the spelling right on this but, 'Shumokh'stores, northwest of Baghdad contained equiptment that could be used as chem. and bio. weapons was once monitored by unmovic. My question is...is Salamon pak...shumokh?
Don't you love it when a plan comes together? :-)
Presenter: Senior Defense Official
Thursday, June 5, 2003 - 10:00 a.m. EDT
Yep ... and that would exlain why the UN says they are missing
400,000 tonnes of explosives, some high, have been or is slated to be exploded.
They're missing 380 tonnes.
Yeah, but something stinks real bad about this NTY story.
We need to get this info back out. Send it to Foxnews. Here is a list of all. I've already sent them a note along with one on the KLA contributions to the Kerry campaign. If I forgot an address, let me know and I'll add it.
special@foxnews.com ; hannity@foxnews.com ; ontherecord@foxnews.com ; atlarge@foxnews.com; Friends@foxnews.com ; heartland@foxnews.com; afterhours@foxnews.com; oreilly@foxnews.com; beltway@foxnews.com; brian.Wilson@foxnews.com; brit.hume@foxnews.com; comments@foxnews.com; feedback@foxnews.com; jim.angle@foxnews.com; dayside@foxnews.com; major.garrett@foxnews.com; molly.henneberg@foxnews.com; warstories@foxnews.com; studiob@foxnews.com
Here, from the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, is a recent description of Iraq's nuclear program in the 1990s and before, based on U.N. inspection reports: "Iraq claimed that it gave no serious consideration to the simpler, gun-type uranium bomb that the United States dropped on Hiroshima. Iraq ran the computer codes pertinent to these designs on a Japanese NEC 750 computer located at Tuwaitha, which was moved to the National Computer Center after the Gulf war [emphasis added]. Iraq also experimented with high explosives to produce implosive shock waves and developed a 32-point electronic firing system using detonators developed at Al Qaqaa."
Mr. Henninger is deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal's editorial page. His column appears Fridays in the Journal and on OpinionJournal.com.
This I gotta check out.....
Fireset Development and Testing
ISG obtained limited corroboration of previously reported, pre-1991 fi reset development status. No new information regarding fi reset development was found. ISG found no evidence that Iraq continued fi reset development or testing after 1991.
• An Iraqi scientist reported to ISG that development of one complete 32-point fi reset directly applicable to nuclear weapon detonation initiation was completed prior to February 1990. A second fi reset was being assembled and environmentally hardened in 1990 but was never completed. Work on both fi resets was ceased in April 1991, and the fi resets were evacuated to a safehouse and later returned to Al Atheer. One fi reset was reported to be exhumed from rubble at Al Atheer in 1996 or 1997 and was turned over to inspectors. ISG confi rmed that this information is consistent with that previously reported by Iraq. ISG has not been able to independently confi rm the disposition of the second fi reset reported to have been assembled in the pre-1991 nuclear program.
No, I hadn't thanks...
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"Yeah, but something stinks real bad about this NTY story".
It smells like a hasty attempt to cover up the WT story on Kerry's blatant lies about meeting the Security Council - it seems to be getting a lot more play than the Kerry one and thus could be said to have "done it's job".
But then Kerry getting caught in another whopper is hardly "news" any more.
An excellent find, bump.
The stuff was gone by MARCH 8,2003 BEFORE the war began!!!!!!!!
THAT'S the critical phrase.
Hard to say what all got buried in the sand or sent to Syria.
BTW, why isn't there any coverage on the explosives that could make an atomic bomb as WMD?
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