U.S. Forces Raid Iraq Chemical Facility

AP/Yahoo ^ | 8/13/05 | Unknown

[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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[tiredoflaundry]

There's no stinking chemicals or WMD in Iraq! Cindy Sheehan told me so!!!!!! /sarc

[ChadGore]

bttt

[fhayek]

U.S. troops, acting on a tip from detainees under interrogation, raided a "suspected insurgent chemical production facility" in northern Iraq

I sure hope they didn't make the detainees put women's underwear on their heads to extract this information. That would be wrong.

[Rockitz]

As I recall they found an inordinate amount of insecticide which just happens to be a precursor used in the production of nerve agents. Of course, the MSM has selectively forgotten how to infer anything related to WMD.

[Stellar Dendrite]

This is Hugh!!!!!

[MEG33]

Having poisoned myself spraying insecticide under roof eves..I never hesitatated to thing about the insecticide chemicals as being very suspicious.

[adam_az]

It looks a LOT like a fermenter!


left:what was found in iraq, right: fermenter

[adam_az]

If it is a fermenter... either they're growing bacteria, or they're making moonshine.

[Seeking the truth]

Doesn't look like they adhere to GMP or GLP.

[adam_az]

Iraq A History of Biological Weapons Research - University of Texas - http://dpalm.uth.tmc.edu/faculty/bios/norris/BT2002_files/Iraq.htm


Seed Fermenter at al-Hakam, part of Salman Pak. Picture courtesy of the Monterey Institute for International Studies.

[TAquinas]

Is that the wmd lab they found?

[adam_az]

side by side:

[TAquinas]

"It will be interesting to see if this gets any play in the press."

I'm sure they won't mention this newly found lab of WMD.

I think Saddam is sending orders from prison to continue with the production of WMD.

It sure looks like a WMD lab to me.>

[adam_az]

It looks like a conical fermenter used for brewing beer... or growing bacteria.

[TAquinas]

"You're right. Some chemical weapons were found, but just in small amounts."

I read here someone calling them Weapons of Small Destruction, or WSD. But one WSD and one WSD there, cumulatively they could amount to WMDs, i think.

[TAquinas]

Looks like a pretty sophisticated lab, if you aks me.

[PISANO]

This seems like a perfect time for the POTUS to deliver on the WMD charge that he KNEW was a lie all along but that he had every intention of smuggling into Iraq.

< /sarcasm >

[popdonnelly]

Since they're good arabs, we can probably rule out beer.

[Coop]

I don't recall amounts, but I do remember the dual-use chemicals being discovered and downplayed.

[Coop]

Good observation and photos, thanks!