WONDER WHY YOU HAVEN'T HEARD ABOUT THIS?

Neal Nuze | 11/17/04 | Neal Boortz

[NotchJohnson]

WONDER WHY YOU HAVEN'T HEARD ABOUT THIS?

If you use this link [ http://www.usatoday.com/news/graphics/phantom_fury/flash.htm ] to visit the USA Today website you will be treated to a flash presentation of several pictures taken during the siege of Fallujah. Picture number two in this presentation shows 40 vials in boxes labeled "Sarin." That's sarin gas, my friends. One drop of this stuff on your skin can kill you. The boxes have Cyrillic and German characters on them, indicating they may have come from our good friends the Russians or the Germans. The caption under the photo reads "Marines discovered 40 vials of suspected Sarin gas while searching a house in Fallujah, Iraq. It was secreted in a briefcase hidden in a truck in the courtyard of the house."

So ... there you go. Weapons of mass destruction. Chemical weapons. This Sarin gas could, with an effective application, kill thousands. And where do they find it? In a briefcase! A briefcase in a car trunk. And you wonder why our troops have had some difficulty finding Saddam's weapons? You still think inspections could have worked? Yeah, sure they would. The inspectors were going to look in every car trunk and every briefcase in Iraq.

What you see in that picture is proof that the only way to even come close to neutralizing the threat that Saddam posed was to remove him from power. Nothing else was going to work.

Meanwhile ... just watch the critics whistle past this one. If you don't mention the vials of Sarin gas, they just don't exist ... do they?

[NotchJohnson]

Hiding a briefcase is easy as hell in a country the size of California.

[conservativecorner]

Sarin Gas in Iraq? I'm shocked I tell ya, just shocked. HEAVY SARCASM!!

[MetalHeadConservative35]

of course there not going to talk about it in the media,you cant sell newspapers if it makes bush look good

my buddy was over there and his group found WMD,but noooooooooo there were no WMD..blah

Wake Up USA,we dont have any friends,the world wants us gone

[Arkie2]

After all the false alarms from months gone by I think I'll wait until they do a chemical analysis before I believe it.

[JustRight]

The label lists three nerve agents, Soman, Sarin and V (as in VX). My bet is this is nerve agent antidote. Why would the tubes contain multiple agents?

[montomike]

That's what I was thinking. Keeping sarin in glass ampules seem pretty stupid. They look like those antidotes that you stab yourself with to provide a short term response to the sarin gas's attempt to shut down your respiratory and involuntary nervous system.

[xkaydet65]

The antidote for Sarin is an injector of atropine. These come pre packaged in a one time syringe. The theory being that once under Chem attack the soldier does not have time for much more than grabbing the syringe and injecting himself in the flank. These vials are too big to be syringes and to small to be the bulk antidote waiting to be measured and packaged. Whether they are nerve agents, I do not know, but I doubt they are antidotes.

[arichtaxpayer]

I'll rush to CNN right now to see if they're reporting this! (not)

[CBart95]

Let's ignore a KEY Fact:
"The boxes have Cyrillic and German characters on them, indicating they may have come from our good friends the Russians or the Germans"
When you add the behind the scenes involvement of France and China, the story has a dramatic new implication. Wait! Let's add the UN to complete the picture.

[jb6]

This is old Soviet/East German stuff, how do I know? If you look at the bottom of the label, the last thing that is said is: Verwendungsfahaig bis /Godin do (which means "good to") Okt. (Oct. or October) and the year starts with a 1. Though I can't see the rest, the Russia government hasn't made Chemical weapons with German writing on it since 1990. Either way, this stuff at the newest possible is 1999, which places it in Yeltsin's time frame.

Lets try to translate things first and scream panic later.

[ruiner]

I think the window of time has passed that "people" will really pay attention to WMDs in Iraq.

If they find WMDs, it will be blamed on the insurgency and other countries rather than on Saddam.

[brothers4thID]

Not to mention that you don't go trundling around on bad roads with glass ampules of nerve gas in your briefcase. Looks to me as if it was a soviet test kit. Given the proximity to mortar shells and launch tubes, these terrorists may have been testing shells before launching them.

[b2stealth]

It says on the box those are "indicator tubes" - probably to test presence of sarin?

[Publius6961]

BUMP

[jb6]

The tubes are also dated to Oct. 1XXX so anywhere from the 80's to 1999.

[demlosers]

Antidotes are kept in auto-injectors filled either with 2 PAM-chloride, and atropine:

[winodog]

I remember hearing a lot of reports from the imbeds about white powders and shells that were suspicious, but there was no followup. As a matter of fact we have not heard much about all the findings of white powders here in America. I wonder if they have ever developed a test that works quick and well. Remember after 9/11 we heard it was, it wasnt, it was high grade, it wasnt. They could never make up their minds.

[Strategerist]

As a matter of fact we have not heard much about all the findings of white powders here in America.

Huh?

Yes we have. They've turned out to be non-dairy creamer, plaster, etc.

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

I heard this was not gas, but the antedote agent. Hmmm we don't use Sarin in the field though, so why do they have it?