Posted on 10/28/2004 1:24:33 PM PDT by Bushin04
U.S. FORCES FIND IRAQI CHEMICAL WARFARE TRAINING CENTER
(Central Command Report, April 4: Iraq Operational Update)
April 05, 2003
"Washington -- U.S. forces have discovered a complex that may have been used by the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to develop and construct chemical weapons, and another complex that is believed to be a nuclear, biological and chemical warfare training school, a U.S. Central Command briefing officer says."
"U.S. Army Special Forces found a site in western Iraq near Mudaysis that probably was used as a nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) warfare training center for the Iraqi Army, Brigadier General Vincent Brooks said April 4 at the daily CENTCOM briefing at Camp As Sayliyah in Qatar. During the briefing Brooks showed an image of an array of brown-tinted bottles with yellow labels that are similar to the containers in which chemicals are customarily stored, and one was clearly marked "Tabun," a known chemical warfare agent."
"Some of these were taken away and testing is ongoing. But we think that there may have been an explanation for this as an NBC training school, not an operational facility," Brooks said. "We believe that was the only sample. That's why we believe it was a training site."
"U.S. troops also found thousands of boxes of an unspecified white powder substance, small vials of unidentified liquids, atropine nerve agent antidote autoinjectors, and an array of Arabic documents detailing how to engage in chemical warfare at the Latifiyah industrial complex 25 miles (40 kilometers) southwest of the Iraqi capital and east of the Euphrates River, he said. This site, part of a larger complex known as the Latifiyah Explosives and Ammunition Plant, was already identified by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as a suspected NBC weapons site, and had been inspected a number of times."
Sorry here is the link: http://usembassy.state.gov/islamabad/wwwh03040505.html
I am sure some reporter out there said that there was 'doubt' about this site... and as you know, we always gave Saddam the benefit of the doubt..
It means we were at the site a week prior to what CBS/NYT reported and we found no IAEA sealed bunkers full of explosives.
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* sigh *
This actually comes from a CBS report. CBS made this with embeded reporters on April 4th. CBS knew there were no 380 tons of materials there
The 3ID was there at this time.
bump!
So what do you think Bushin04?
April 05, 2003 ?
I've seen this many times, but I've never seen any follow up to say that the white vials were proven to be explosives or what happened to them. I'm sure there is some proof of that somewhere.
Wow- I'm so impressed with a nearly 8 month old article....
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