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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: adam_az

Interesting to me is the yellow abrasive cut-off saw in the picture on the right. These are used to cut metal including pipe. Pipe bombs perhaps?


61 posted on 08/13/2005 10:43:40 AM PDT by Normal4me
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To: Dr. Frank fan
"I'm pretty sure the factory was producing baby-milk."

No need for baby-milk, the sanctions killed them all, remember?

62 posted on 08/13/2005 10:55:50 AM PDT by blam
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To: Coop

bttt


63 posted on 08/13/2005 11:01:24 AM PDT by firewalk
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To: Stellar Dendrite

Hello Hugh...

You're right this could be huge!


64 posted on 08/13/2005 11:45:41 AM PDT by GoodWithBarbarians JustForKaos (Come on Cindy... Get a room!)
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To: Normal4me

good catch

but with a fermenter? I'm pretty sure that's a fermenter, and fwiw it's smaller, but it's the same color as the fermenter that was at salman pak. does that mean same manufacturer?

of course they could be making pipe bombs and BW in the same place.


65 posted on 08/13/2005 11:49:48 AM PDT by adam_az (It's the border, stupid!)
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To: GoodWithBarbarians JustForKaos

Dont forget series!


66 posted on 08/13/2005 11:50:19 AM PDT by Stellar Dendrite (The presence of "peace" is the absence of opposition to socialism -- Marx)
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To: Stellar Dendrite

"Don't forget series!"

Is that DU-speak for serious? They are soooo educated over there, it hurts my poh liddle brane to reed theyr comants.


67 posted on 08/13/2005 12:02:04 PM PDT by GoodWithBarbarians JustForKaos (Come on Cindy... Get a room!)
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To: GoodWithBarbarians JustForKaos

No, hugh and series isn't du speak, neither is stuned beebers.


68 posted on 08/13/2005 12:03:19 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite (The presence of "peace" is the absence of opposition to socialism -- Marx)
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To: MizSterious
Check out this site:

http://www.insightmag.com/media/paper441/news/2004/05/11/World/Investigative.Reportsaddams.Wmd.Have.Been.Found-670120.shtml

69 posted on 08/13/2005 12:20:12 PM PDT by AlwaysFree ("Faith without science is lame, and science without faith is blind." -- Albert Einstein)
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To: Coop
Hey Coop, there is no WMD in Iraq and there are no terrorists there, either. Didnt you see Michael Moore's thought provoking documentary.......?

I wish I could collate all the liberal MSM crap foisted on us since Nov 2000, and shove it down the throats of all liberals, but they would just say Rove cooked it up...

70 posted on 08/13/2005 12:21:53 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Islam-Hastening the Second Coming..)
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To: adam_az

I may be somewhat dense, but why did Salman Pak need a "seed fermenter"?


71 posted on 08/13/2005 12:46:22 PM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: Coop

"unclear---intended for weapons" are you shixxing me? We know the desert dirtbags have all the aspirin they need. This was no doubt a toothpaste factory since it is plain they don't have all of that they need. It takes a lot of clorox to kill the breath of goat! Mosul you say? somebody's not still mad at the Kurds are they? Lets save some of this pantherpiss and feed it to the next batch of virgin hunters we capture---we'll find out if they were just making Flintstones---or some other kind of hair curlers.


72 posted on 08/13/2005 12:54:41 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: livius

All the equipment in the pics I've seen also exists in my own shop----while some folks think that's ominous it's all a matter of getting regular stuff manufactured. The Dewalt chop saw w/abrasive blade can cut almost anything including fingers. I can make dammnear anything so you can let your mind wander as to what ahab might be up to. 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. Makes you wonder how many pics of important stuff they've walked by?


73 posted on 08/13/2005 1:11:27 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: TAquinas

Sophisticatid??? There is a Dewalt chop saw, a couple Jerry cans, and a vertical cylinder that looks like one of my sand blaster hoppers---if you wanna see sophisticated you need to peek at my back room. There's nothing in Iraq that rates sophisticated unless our guys "brung it."


74 posted on 08/13/2005 1:24:49 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: Coop

According to an interview with a lieutenant colonel, they recovered around 1500 gallons of chemicals, primarily in three types. He said what types they were, but I can't recall the exact names, but he did say that you don't make fertilizer or bug spray out of them.


75 posted on 08/13/2005 1:24:56 PM PDT by Stonewall Jackson
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To: livius
It's a wind centrifuge. Venturi (whirlpool) effect separates heavy material from light in a wind tunnel effect. Light goes out the top, Heavy drops out of the bottom. Very often found in milling and granary/feed-seed store operations.
76 posted on 08/13/2005 1:26:06 PM PDT by rock58seg (RINO"s make the Republicans MINO"s (Majority In Name Only)!avigable waters)
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To: rock58seg

Sorry I didn't examine close enough first time, these look as if they use liquid instead of wind. Same principle.


77 posted on 08/13/2005 1:29:01 PM PDT by rock58seg (RINO"s make the Republicans MINO"s (Majority In Name Only)!avigable waters)
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To: livius

any chemists here, was does this stuff make when you mix it:

"The list of chemicals included glycerin, sodium hydroxide and ethanol sulfate, he said."

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/13/iraq.chemicals/


78 posted on 08/13/2005 1:31:39 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: rock58seg; oceanview
It's a wind centrifuge.

Thanks - I wonder what that would be used for (in terms of the production of toxic chemicals)?

79 posted on 08/13/2005 1:33:32 PM PDT by livius
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To: oceanview

was=what


80 posted on 08/13/2005 1:38:20 PM PDT by oceanview
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