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Fox: Chemical Weapons Lab Found in Fallujah

Posted on 11/25/2004 6:11:12 AM PST by jern

Fox: Chemical Weapons Lab Found in Fallujah


TOPICS: Breaking News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: chemicalweapons; fallujah; iraq; wmd
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To: jern

In this photo released by the Iraqi government, sacks of chemicals are seen after Iraqi troops searching suspected terrorist hideouts in Fallujah discovered a laboratory with manuals manufacturing explosives and toxins including anthrax, Iraq's national security adviser Qassem Dawoud said Thursday, Nov. 25, 2004.(AP Photo/Iraqi Gorvernment)

In this photo released by the Iraqi government, chemicals are seen after Iraqi troops searching suspected terrorist hideouts in Fallujah discovered a laboratory with manuals manufacturing explosives and toxins including anthrax, Iraq's national security adviser Qassem Dawoud said Thursday, Nov. 25, 2004.(AP Photo/Iraqi Gorvernment)

101 posted on 11/25/2004 10:38:54 AM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: jern
AP Video

Iraqi Troops Find Chemical Lab in Fallujah

102 posted on 11/25/2004 11:08:21 AM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: Nice50BMG
Naw... it's a hairspray factory.

Is that accdg to Fox News, or sarcasm?

103 posted on 11/25/2004 11:41:42 AM PST by theDentist (Proud Member of FreeRepublic 's "Pyjama-Hadeen")
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To: theDentist

It may have been constructed before 9/11 .... just practicing the NPR school of journalism.


104 posted on 11/25/2004 2:10:41 PM PST by ashtanga
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To: RandallFlagg

That is a pretty good theory, especially since we were hearing about Saddam and WMDs for years before President Bush was elected.


105 posted on 11/25/2004 2:21:39 PM PST by mjaneangels@aolcom
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To: ashtanga

I wish we had a better picture of those chemicals. The labels likely have information about expiration dates and such. Many are like volitile with short shelf lives - it'd be easy to either read the label or perform tests to see if the reagents are still new. Seems like it'd be easy to see if this has been around since the 90's or if it's new. But, I'm sure our guys are doing all that work as we speak.


106 posted on 11/25/2004 3:07:30 PM PST by dutyhonorcountry
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To: jern
Iraqi forces find chemical materials in lab
 
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraqi soldiers have discovered chemical materials in a Falluja lab, while a top aide of wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been arrested in Mosul, Iraq's interim national security adviser said Thursday.
 
The reports came as U.S. and Iraqi forces conducted anti-insurgency operations in Falluja, Mosul and south of Baghdad in the province of Babil.
 
Iraq's interim National Security Adviser Kasim Dawood announced discovery of the lab with chemical materials which he said was "manufacturing death, intoxication and assassination."
 
"We have also discovered in this laboratory a pamphlet and instructions showing how to manufacture explosives and toxins," Dawood said. "And they also talk about the production of anthrax."
 
In Washington, a U.S. military official confirmed that materials found in the laboratory included instructions for making anthrax, as well as formulas and ingredients for making explosives and chemical blood agents.
 
Also found in the lab were hydrochloric acid and sodium cyanide, which can be used to make the blood agent hydrogen cyanide, the military official said.
 
Dawood said alleged al-Zarqawi aide Abu Said was arrested on Tuesday in the northern city of Mosul. An audio message purported to be by the Jordanian-born al Qaeda associate was discovered on the Internet on Wednesday. (Full story)
 
On Thursday, forces in Mosul detained three suspected insurgents, the U.S. military said. Two of the detainees were arrested in a cordon-and-search operation in the west-central sector of the city. One detainee was identified as a member of a terrorist cell. A detainee who was arrested in eastern Mosul was wanted for "anti-Iraqi activities," the U.S. military said.
 
South of Baghdad, Iraqi, U.S. and British forces Thursday arrested 81 suspected insurgents during a third day of their anti-rebel offensive in Babil province, the U.S. military said.
 
The arrests were made in the early morning near Yousefiya by Iraqi SWAT personnel, elements of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit and the 1st Battalion of Britain's Black Watch Regiment, according to a military statement.
 
Black Watch rounded up 26 people. Iraqi forces and Marines detained 43. Elsewhere in the area, Marines arrested 12 others, the statement said, raising the total arrests of suspected insurgents since Tuesday to 116.
 
The Babil operation, the U.S. military has said, differs from the recent mass assault in Falluja. It is surgical rather than sweeping -- more of a focused hit-and-run operation.
 
In Falluja, the former rebel stronghold west of Baghdad, U.S. Marines said Thursday that U.S. and Iraqi forces had discovered a huge weapons cache inside a mosque compound.
 
A statement from the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force called the find the city's "largest weapons cache to date."
 
The Marines said the compound -- the Saad Abi Bin Waqas Mosque -- was also being used as a suspected safe house and planning site for insurgents in Falluja.
 
The statement didn't provide specific numbers of the weapons -- which were discovered by U.S. and Iraqi forces on Wednesday.
 
The statement did say that the mosque compound was "heavily laden with small arms, artillery shells, heavy machine guns, and anti-tank mines."
 
"Other buildings within the compound had mortar systems, rocket-propelled grenades, launchers, recoilless rifles and parts of surface-to-air weapons systems. Marines also found the barrel of an anti-aircraft gun outside one of the buildings." (Full story http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/24/zarqawi.tape/ )
 
The operations in Babil, Falluja and elsewhere are aimed at putting down anti-American fighters and rebels against Iraq's interim government in advance of the nation's first, free Democratic elections since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. The elections are scheduled for January 30.
 
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/25/iraq.main/

107 posted on 11/25/2004 6:02:37 PM PST by Rain-maker
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To: LoudRepublicangirl

I will be praying for her.


108 posted on 11/25/2004 8:37:26 PM PST by texasflower (Liberty can change habits. ~ President George W. Bush 10/08/04)
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To: TAMU_Neocon

I understood your point. Most of us did, rest assured.


109 posted on 11/25/2004 8:42:04 PM PST by texasflower (Liberty can change habits. ~ President George W. Bush 10/08/04)
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To: TAMU_Neocon
Man I think it's somewhat telling about the situation in America today when we actually HOPE that the enemy has weapons of mass destruction just to discredit the Dems. We fear Democrats more than terrorists with WMD.

I think it's more telling listening to the venomous words used by Kerry, Edwards, Gore, Michael Moore, and other Democrats toward President Bush versus the comparative lack of venom displayed towards Osama, Saddam, and other terrorists.

110 posted on 11/25/2004 10:11:58 PM PST by Anti-MSM (Conservatives wish 9-11 never happened. Liberals pretend it didn't happen.)
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To: jern

bttt...Any more news on this? This must be the reason the terrorists wanted 'Dr. Germ' out of jail, ehh?


111 posted on 11/26/2004 6:30:55 AM PST by penelopesire
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To: jern

I'll believe it when those words are uttered by Dan Blather.


112 posted on 11/26/2004 1:13:37 PM PST by newzjunkey ("The rule of law has become confused with - indeed subverted by - the rule of judges." - Robert Bork)
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To: penelopesire
You mean you haven't heard all the coverage by the 'major' networks?

/s

113 posted on 11/26/2004 4:46:05 PM PST by Ed_in_NJ (Who killed Suzanne Coleman?)
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To: Jarhead1957
Baby Milk Factory Discovered In Fallujah

Nah... it was cream for Kofi...

114 posted on 11/29/2004 7:02:13 AM PST by ravingnutter
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