Posted on 10/26/2004 12:31:01 PM PDT by Prince Charles
Copyright 2003 Valley Daily Bulletin
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA)
April 4, 2003 Friday
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Troops encounter unknown chemical items
As the military advances closer to Baghdad, signs of Iraqichemical 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 westernIraqi 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 militaryindustrial complex found nerve agent antidotes, documents describing chemical warfare and a white powder that appeared to be used for explosives.
Col. John Peabody, engineer brigade commander of the 3rdInfantry Division, said troops found thousands of 2-by-5-inch boxes, each containing three vials of white powder, together with documents written in Arabic that dealt with how to engage in chemical warfare.
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This needs to be sent out asap..
Whoa. Nice find.
WOW! That means the the place was EMPTY BEFORE THE WAR EVEN STARTED!!!!!!!!!!!THIS IS HUGE!!!!!!!NYT IS A WHORE FOR KERRY!!!!!!
"Ammogate" ping
Now now. We all know they moved 380 tons of ammo back into the facility after the UN left.
Then it was stolen by a carvan of Bedouin.
Mohamed El Baradei's report to the UN security council
Friday February 14, 2003
We have also continued to investigate the relocation and consumption of the high explosive HMX. As I reported earlier, Iraq has declared that 32 tonnes of the HMX previously under IAEA seal had been transferred for use in the production of industrial explosives, primarily to cement plants as a booster for explosives used in quarrying.
Iraq has provided us with additional information, including documentation on the movement and use of this material, and inspections have been conducted at locations where the material is said to have been used. However, given the nature of the use of high explosives, it may well be that the IAEA will be unable to reach a final conclusion on the end use of this material. While we have no indication that this material was used for any application other than that declared by Iraq, we have no technical method of verifying, quantitatively, the declared use of the material in explosions. We will continue to follow this issue through a review of civilian mining practices in Iraq and through interviews of key Iraqi personnel involved in former relevant research and development activities.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,895890,00.html
kerry and cbs and nyt will be covered in QA-QAA!!!!!!!!!!
Nice. Broadcast it to the blogosphere and Drudge. You can still make "Best of the Web."
We were right .. they DID KNOW they weren't there
Why would America leave the security of it's country up to the United Nations?
All members in Congress and the Senate are killing Americans by supporting the United Nations.
TREASON
This just proves how little investigative journalism took place to "break" this story a week before the election. Prince Charles, how long did it take you to dig up this gem?
I'm guessing that the NYTimes has Lexis-Nexis capability and overlapping layers of accountability.
Oh well. Chalk up another one for the pajamahadeen.
You're a real prince. :oD
Turn out the lights....
The PARTY'S OVER!!!!
Don't forget to add the UN to that list
Fox News still has it on their website also:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83252,00.html
Sad nothing came of any of these stories when it HAPPENED.
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