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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Never mind...NOW it is back...sorry
It will be interesting to see if this gets any play in the press.
I should have been more specific. It's a U.S. Navy photo, as credited. It's from the CNN site in post directly above the photo.
Whatever, it was obviously not good. I wonder if Iran is involved in this, or if it's your basic Sunni Saddam-adherents?
Brian Wilson just said there's going to be a story on this on his show, starting now on Fox.
American troops invaded Iraq in March 2003 to destroy what President Bush said were Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.
Thats just not true. Nuclear weapons were the only thing NOT found. The MSM seems to have forgotten about the Bio and the Chem in the NucBioChem triad of WMD.
Don't hold your breath waiting for the press to cover it. You could turn so blue you will mistaken for a smurf.
You are absolutely correct. I used to have a fairly long listing of stories about the finds we did make--up to and including materials that were intended to be put together for nuclear WMDS. I'm not sure where it is right now, that was a couple years ago, but if anyone is interested, I can dig it up. Some of the links might be dead by now, however.
You're right. Some chemical weapons were found, but just in small amounts.
BUMP BUMP
Fox is covering this very well right now. Said if mixed "as shown" that they would have left a "lingering effect" on the area!!
BUT .... BUT .... BUT .... There's no WMD in Iraq !!!
ROTFLOL!!!!
Mark 4:22 - There is nothing covered which will not be seen openly and nothing has been made secret which will not come to light!!
Amen!
Interesting. Keep us posted!
At some point Fox will probably publish this information as a news story on their website--it's just now breaking, so it may take awhile. This looks significant.
"The Left would say: There were no wmd's until we invaded Iraq."
Yup. The lying socialist scum of the earth will do anything but display intellectual honesty
I'm pretty sure the factory was producing baby-milk.
Naaaahh. If it were, we'd have sent in cruise missiles.
Oh wait, wrong administration.
If Yahoo news is posting this, you can bet that it's more than rumor.
No, it's definitely not a rumor. There's no question they raided a facility based on intelligence, and there are apparently a good amount of chemicals. We'll have to wait and see about who was using it, since when, etc.
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