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WMDs Found in Iraq
Human Events ^ | Nov. 9, 2005 | Human Events

Posted on 11/12/2005 12:25:09 AM PST by FairOpinion

Contrary to ongoing reports by mainstream media outlets, WMDs have been found in Iraq, so reports New York Times best-selling author Richard Miniter in his new book, Disinformation.

Consider these shocking facts:

• Found: 1.77 metric tons of enriched uranium

• Found: 1,500 gallons of chemical weapons

• Found: Roadside bomb loaded with sarin gas

• Found: 1,000 radioactive materials--ideal for radioactive dirty bombs

• Found: 17 chemical warheads--some containing cyclosarin, a nerve agent five times more powerful than sarin

This is only a partial list of the deadly weapons Miniter reveals in his new book, Disinformation. Miniter systematically dissects the "No-WMD Myth" (how it started, and why it continues), as well as 21 other War-on-Terror myths perpetuated by the media.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gwot; iraq; iraqiwmd; iraqwmd; miniter; saddam; saddamhussein; saddamswmds; terrorism; wmd; wmdmyth; wot
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I also recall news stories about tests showing mustard gas in the Euphrates -- how did that get there?
1 posted on 11/12/2005 12:25:10 AM PST by FairOpinion
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To: FairOpinion

Yeah..... but they were old, and most likely brought into Iraq by Don Rumsfeld :-)


2 posted on 11/12/2005 12:26:44 AM PST by MJY1288 (The main stream media has the wisdom of a new born and the vision of a still born)
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To: MJY1288

LOL...........


3 posted on 11/12/2005 12:27:32 AM PST by nopardons
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To: martin_fierro

Thanks for finding this article.

I posted it as its own thread, it's important to point out the truth, since the Dems and media keeps perpetrating the big lie.


4 posted on 11/12/2005 12:28:03 AM PST by FairOpinion (CA Props: We may have lost the battle, but the war is not over. Support reform in CA.)
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To: FairOpinion; All

5 posted on 11/12/2005 12:30:33 AM PST by martin_fierro (We few. We silly few.)
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To: FairOpinion
There was also the 7 pound block of sodium cyanide found in a terrorist's safehouse.

-PJ

6 posted on 11/12/2005 12:30:35 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (It's still not safe to vote Democrat.)
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To: nopardons
Hey... Don't laugh... Mary Mapes has the documents to prove that While the moron, Frat Boy, Drunk, Cocaine abusing George W. Bush was AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard, he orchestrated the transfer of these weapons to Iraq while everyone thought he was AWOL. Karl Rove set the whole deal up, and Scooter Libby leaked the AWOL story to undermine Mary Mapes :-)
7 posted on 11/12/2005 12:32:54 AM PST by MJY1288 (The main stream media has the wisdom of a new born and the vision of a still born)
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To: FairOpinion

Don't forget the 500 tons of yellowcake taken from Al-Tuwaitha.


8 posted on 11/12/2005 12:33:31 AM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: FairOpinion

BTTT


9 posted on 11/12/2005 12:34:09 AM PST by SweetCaroline (PARENTS & GRANDPARENTS IN CA JUST ABORTED THEIR FAMILY!!!)
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To: MJY1288

I know you were just being sarcastic, but there really is overwhelming evidence of WMD in Iraq. I really don't know why the Bush administration let the Dems get away with all the lies.

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Fact Sheet: Iraq's Nuclear Weapon Programme

INVO's extensive inspection activities in Iraq between 1991 and 1998 resulted in a technically coherent picture of Iraq's clandestine nuclear programme. The programme was very well funded and was aimed at the indigenous development and exploitation of technologies for the production of weapons-grade nuclear material and production and manufacturing of nuclear weapons. IAEA report S/1997/779 to the UN Security Council provides a detailed overview of Agency activities in Iraq and its assessment of Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapon programme. An update and summary of this report can be found in S/1998/927 and S/1999/393. The reports cover all Agency activities in Iraq between 1991 and 1998.

http://www.iaea.org/worldatom/Programmes/ActionTeam/nwp2.html


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Imported 4,006 kg of natural uranium and 6,005 kg of depleted uranium (DU) from Italy in 1979
Imported 1,767 kg low enriched uranium (LEU) from Italy in 1982
Imported almost 50 kg of highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Russia and France
Procured 429 drums containing 138,098 kg yellowcake from Portugal in 1980
Procured 487 drums containing 148,348 kg yellowcake from Portugal in 1982
Procured 432 drums containing 137,435 kg of yellowcake from Niger in 1981
Procured 426 drums containing 139,409 kg of yellowcake from Niger in 1982
Imported 24,260 kg of uranium dioxide from Brazil between 1981-82
Produced 109 tonnes of uranium in 168 tonnes of yellowcake at Al Qaim uranium recovery plant, which was constructed between 1982-84
Produced 420 drums containing 99,457 kg uranium dioxide at Al Jesira uranium conversion facility
Produced UF6 at Rashdiya Engineering and Design Centre
Processed uranium dioxide to produce UF4, uranium metal and UF6 at Tuwaitha Chemical Laboratories
Processed UO2 and yellowcake to produce UO2, U3O8, UO3, UO4, UF4, and uranium metal at Tuwaitha
Experimental Research Laboratory for Fuel Fabrication
Processed UO2 to produce UCl4 at Tuwaitha Chemical Engineering Research laboratories


http://www.iaea.org/OurWork/SV/Invo/factsheet.html


10 posted on 11/12/2005 12:34:09 AM PST by FairOpinion (CA Props: We may have lost the battle, but the war is not over. Support reform in CA.)
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To: FairOpinion

I would never dare tell President Bush what he should or shouldn't do nor what he should or shouldn't say, but, between me, you and the brickwall, today he should have said.......


11 posted on 11/12/2005 12:34:17 AM PST by hole_n_one
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To: MJY1288

That's really almost what she's been going around saying. Just give her a few more days and it IS what she will be claiming.


12 posted on 11/12/2005 12:35:22 AM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

I think they also found a ton of Barry Manilow 8-track tapes. ;-)


13 posted on 11/12/2005 12:35:26 AM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy

ROTFLMSO..........that's just too funny !


14 posted on 11/12/2005 12:36:09 AM PST by nopardons
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To: FreedomCalls

Yes, all that uranium at Tuwaitha is being ignored too.

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Progress Made on Iraqi Uranium
Experts from the UN atomic agency have accounted for tons of uranium feared looted from Iraq's largest nuclear research facility, diplomats said Friday.

Experts from the UN atomic agency have accounted for tons of uranium feared looted from Iraq's largest nuclear research facility, diplomats said Friday.

The natural and low-enriched uranium was secured at the Tuwaitha facility, 12 miles south of Baghdad, the diplomats said on condition of anonymity. Tuwaitha was left unguarded after Iraqi troops fled the area on the eve of the war.

U.S. troops didn't secure the area until April 7. In the meantime, looters from the surrounding villages stripped it of uranium storage barrels they later used to hold drinking water.


http://english.people.com.cn/200306/22/eng20030622_118668.shtml


15 posted on 11/12/2005 12:37:12 AM PST by FairOpinion (CA Props: We may have lost the battle, but the war is not over. Support reform in CA.)
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To: A CA Guy

Was the book of matches still stuck under one side of the 8 track tape so it would play correctly?


16 posted on 11/12/2005 12:38:19 AM PST by MJY1288 (The main stream media has the wisdom of a new born and the vision of a still born)
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To: FairOpinion
RandallFlagg: WMDs = Cheese ^
04/12/2004

17 posted on 11/12/2005 12:39:05 AM PST by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: martin_fierro

I went to college with Rich Miniter - good guy.


18 posted on 11/12/2005 12:39:19 AM PST by HitmanLV (Listen to my demos for Savage Nation contest: http://www.geocities.com/mr_vinnie_vegas/index.html)
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To: FairOpinion

Greenpeace Says "Frightening" Radioactivity in Iraqi Villages


TUWAITHA, Iraq - Environmental group Greenpeace called on the US-led coalition governing Iraq to clean up villages surrounding a nuclear site outside Baghdad that have been contaminated by "frightening levels" of radioactive material.

Carrying Arabic and English banners that read "Al-Tuwaitha - nuclear disaster. Act now!", Greenpeace activists returned a large uranium "yellowcake" mixing canister to US troops stationed inside the nuclear plant, 20 kilometres (12 miles) east of the capital.

The canister -- the size of a small car -- contained significant quantities of radioactive yellowcake and had been left open and unattended for more than 20 days on a busy section of open ground near the Tuwaitha plant, Greenpeace said Tuesday.

"No one cares about us. We are dying slowly. Our whole neighborhood is contaminated. Although Greenpeace came, it is too late," said Tareq al-Obeidi, a 41-year-old Tuwaitha city council member.


Greenpeace activist William Peden of Scotland tries to convince a US soldier of the 1st Armored Division to accept back a canister (behind) containing 'yellow cake' or Uranium Oxide which was looted during the war from the nuclear facility in Tuwaitha, 50 kilometers south of Baghdad, Tuesday, June 24, 2003. The canister was found by the environmentalist group Greenpeace in the village near the facility and allegedly is contaminated. Following the fall of Saddam Hussein, residents living near the complex reportedly took barrels of nuclear materials known as 'yellow cake' and other containers for use to store food and water and unaware that the barrels were radioactive and toxic. The canister was eventually brought into the facility.



http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Greenpeace_says_062403.htm


19 posted on 11/12/2005 12:39:27 AM PST by FairOpinion (CA Props: We may have lost the battle, but the war is not over. Support reform in CA.)
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To: FairOpinion

Well since we did in fact find some of the WMD post war... and since in fact Sadaam was gaming the UN with the Oil For Food debacle and had full intentions of obtaining and using WMD on the U.S. and Israel and since in fact weapons inspectors were not being granted full access and since in fact Al-Qeada was operating out of northern Iraq pre and post war.. The conclusions about whether or not the intelligence was correct or partially correct at the time is moot. The U.S. is much more safe today then before March 03 and every Demorat senator should be made to comment on those facts now. Like Rush Limbaugh says if they believe the rhetoric that they are spouting then they should be called as defense character witnesses in the Sadaam trial. These honest noble Democratic Senators may well just get Sadaam re-instated to power in Iraq.


20 posted on 11/12/2005 12:41:59 AM PST by tomnbeverly ("Our Military are fighting terrorists in Iraq, so we do not have to face them here at home")
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