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U.S. Forces Raid Iraq Chemical Facility
AP/Yahoo ^ | 8/13/05 | Unknown

Posted on 08/13/2005 8:26:49 AM PDT by Coop

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces raided an insurgent facility that may have been producing an unspecified type of chemicals, the U.S. military said Saturday. It was unclear what was being produced or whether the materials were intended for weapons, the statement added.

U.S. troops, acting on a tip from detainees under interrogation, raided a "suspected insurgent chemical production facility" in northern Iraq last Tuesday, the statement said, without specifying the location.

However, the military cautioned that ongoing testing at the facility was "insufficient to determine what the insurgents had been producing."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: chemicalweapons; gwot; iraq; oif; whywefight; wmd; yourjobiniraq
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To: Coop

"So you've already decided that this is a false alarm. And just how, pray tell, do you know more than the experts with actual access to the materials & equipment"


Just the latest DNC Talking Point memo being regurgitated by the mind dead twits from DU. Figure if they scream it often enough no reality will ever penetrate their bigoted little world.


121 posted on 08/14/2005 1:42:10 PM PDT by MNJohnnie ( Brick by brick, stone by stone, the Revolution grows)
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To: Coop

I guess this, along with the other findings don't count as WMD's. How do they get away with this?!


122 posted on 08/14/2005 2:20:30 PM PDT by alienken (Bumper sticker idea- We have God in heaven & a Texan in the whitehouse,LIFE IS GOOD!!)
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To: alienken

There's been no determination made on this facility yet.


123 posted on 08/14/2005 4:17:12 PM PDT by Coop (www.heroesandtraitors.org)
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To: livius; Coop; cherokee1; rock58seg

What is it?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1463368/posts?page=2#2


126 posted on 08/14/2005 10:46:55 PM PDT by endthematrix ("an ominous vacancy"...I mean, JOHN ROBERTS now fills this space!)
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To: cherokee1
"There's nothing in Iraq that rates sophisticated unless our guys "brung it."

Well Saddam may have bought it from the west, but he sure did operate it. He had state of the art 5 axis milling machines and plasma arc welders. They weren't housed at your local donkey cart service center, but at a State facility machining explosives for nuclear bombs and welding centrifuges and missile tubes.

127 posted on 08/14/2005 10:59:43 PM PDT by endthematrix ("an ominous vacancy"...I mean, JOHN ROBERTS now fills this space!)
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To: endthematrix

Amazing how many were willing to depend on the predictability of a madman and his sons.


128 posted on 08/14/2005 11:05:56 PM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: patrioto
David Kay the Weapons Inspector guy already determined that there were no weapons or were you not paying attention? Again all that WMD crap is for the weak of heart who need it to justify the elimination of that talking turd Husein.

It frightens me that people like you - so out of touch I'm amazed you're connected to the 'Net - get to have their votes count as much as mine.

Please back up your absurd claim, so that I may enthusiastically pick it apart.
Tell them Iraq had no WMD.

129 posted on 08/15/2005 3:54:56 AM PDT by Coop (www.heroesandtraitors.org)
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To: darkwing104
Waiting to see the media's spin on this.

It's all Bush's fault.
130 posted on 08/15/2005 6:07:43 AM PDT by BJClinton ( + /_\)
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To: GoodWithBarbarians JustForKaos
Series and hugh
131 posted on 08/15/2005 6:16:27 AM PDT by BJClinton ( + /_\)
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To: Normal4me

Would you sell me that bag of asbestos---if you can find it? It's not entirely banned but sure is a lot harder to find nowdays. Restricting a perfectly good material was one of the dumbest moves of the 20th century.


132 posted on 08/15/2005 10:21:33 AM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: Coop

A lot of folks were expounding on the stuff shown in the pics---and so was I. Later I saw a partial list of chemicals found in the area. I use all of those also. I didn't see anyone from DOD make a statement as to what the whole package was being used for---if you did please advise.? I don't talk about things I don't know about. Before you question my credentials to evaluate the hardware in a picture you should have the courtesy to ask a few more questions---or do you just prefer to jump to conclusions?


133 posted on 08/15/2005 10:32:48 AM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: adam_az

Not sure about the chemistry of getting a cellulose base from Bayer's but I'll take your word for it.


134 posted on 08/15/2005 10:36:34 AM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: BJClinton

They don't have to spin it if they all agree to not report it at all. And that only takes one FAX from arkansas (or maybe NYC, nowadaze).

chemical PING!


135 posted on 08/15/2005 10:54:30 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: cherokee1
A lot of folks were expounding on the stuff shown in the pics---and so was I. Later I saw a partial list of chemicals found in the area. I use all of those also. I didn't see anyone from DOD make a statement as to what the whole package was being used for---if you did please advise.? I don't talk about things I don't know about. Before you question my credentials to evaluate the hardware in a picture you should have the courtesy to ask a few more questions---or do you just prefer to jump to conclusions?

The pot asked the kettle.

But wouldn't it be a hoot to find out the captured squeeler was actually fingering some poor schmuck with an air conditioning shop that he had a grudge with----it's been happening from day one in Iraq and the real problem is that the folks taking the pics just don't know what they're looking at.

[sniff, sniff] Smells like fertilizer around here...

136 posted on 08/15/2005 12:01:16 PM PDT by Coop (www.heroesandtraitors.org)
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To: endthematrix

The things you mention don't qualify as "sophisticated", at least to me. five axis mills have been around for 30 years and I have yet to see evidence of a modern control system in the background of any pic out of Iraq. My oldest plasma machine is about 20 years old and was already 2nd generation when I bought it----these are just regular tools that one needs to actually build stuff. The only machine I've seen in an Iraq pic that was actually in running condition was a reciprocating hack saw---good sturdy machine, probly communist block, but old school. There aren't any US makers that even list them anymore. Remember WW II---60 years ago---that's all the machinery, from that period, Saddam would have needed to build nuclear stuff. Other than a few weapons purchased from the FRCG's, the Iraq's, I'll say again, got nothin'sophisticated.!!
Saddam did have a couple small arms ammo plants---the equipment was CENTURY OLD technology. And check his power grid---I've yet to see a section of it that could run CNC machinery. My machines are EXTREMELY sensitive to power fluctuations and will just shut down if not treated nicely. Saddam may, if he tried, have learned that the hard way too.


137 posted on 08/15/2005 12:24:10 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: Coop

pot/kettle?
So what's your point? I know what I see in the DOD pics. I have stuff just like it. I also know DOD said they didn't know what was being made, if anything. That's exactly what I said---the guy who took the pics didn't know what he was looking at. If you have a point please make it.


138 posted on 08/15/2005 12:35:46 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: cherokee1

Sorry. Didn't mean to beat around the bush. My point is you're a rambling hypocrite.


139 posted on 08/15/2005 2:52:25 PM PDT by Coop (www.heroesandtraitors.org)
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