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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Brit Hume mentioned on FoxNews tonight that over 400,000 TONS of munitions, including the type of explosives kept at Al QaQaa have been collected by coalition troops... this means that even if the 380 tons of stuff that has dissappeared happened since the site was under the CPA, which has not been proved, it only represents .1% of the total they have gathered.
The Bushies better get the news out and do it fast... and it's way past time to start vociferously attacking the MSM as heavy handed partisans.
This is no surprise. The UN is caca, and Blixie Boy couldn't find his own behind even with both hands tied behind his back.
Our Nuclear Sites are Secure Claims Iraqi Minister [Rashad Mendan Omar]
Omar said today that the missing equipment – which the IAEA says includes milling machines and electron beam welders – was taken in the looting spree that broke out immediately after last year’s invasion, which the United States said aimed to rid Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction.
The sites were quickly secured by coalition forces before they were turned over to Iraqi authorities with the formal hand over of sovereignty in June, he said.
“The locations under my control are very well protected,” Omar said in Baghdad. “Not even a single screw is being taken away without my knowledge.”
I've been waiting for something like this. I'm worried that the dead and the stupid will fall for this blatant propaganda ploy. I'll be SO glad when November 2, but scared to death that Kerry might win. Nerves, nerves.
Seant Hannity just mentioned that NBC is reporting they had someone with the Troop Unit (I think the 103rd) when they reached this area in the beginning of the war and there were NOthing there
Sean says NBC will be reporting further about this tomorrow
Thanks.
Ella, see post #85.
I heard it too! Waiting for details.
LOL...yep, the UN was angry that the US shipped Saddam's nuclear materials here, so WE could destroy them and know they WERE destroyed. If anyone in the UN had got hold of it, it would have been sold on the black market for a tidy monetary profit, a wonderful new Global Crisis opportunity AND job security right up until the UN is replaced by a panel of Islamist clerics.
Actually, they were components.
It might be a good idea to FIRST establish whether or not they WERE "looted", SECOND establish WHY the UN waited until last week to inform the Pentagon if this mysterious and terribly frightening disappearance. If the answer to the first question is "yes" we can find out who has them while continuing the investigation into the UN's suspicious timing, which may have the effect of leading us to who has the explosive materials anyway.
Gee, if the MSM (translated "right arm of the Kerry camp")
can't find anything on President Bush, they just invent
(forge) it. Snort! :O/
Oh but the objective journalists of the mass media would NEVER stoop to FORGERY (gag)
Its very hard to tell with phonetic spelling, it seems everyone spells the same thing different.
self ping
So the UN lied. It would be virtually impossible to secretly evacuate that much stuff between March 8 and the arrival of the 101st a coule weeks later.
ping
Exactly right. The UN is very easy to understand these days, isn't it? Job $$$$ecurity!
Way to find gold - PING
Note that in the UN documents it is spelled Al Qaa Qaa if you are using an automated search.
I totally agree - can we pass this on to someone who can make that decision?
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