Posted on 06/23/2006 9:22:04 PM PDT by april15Bendovr
Man Says He Has Proof Of Possible WMD's In Iraq
Jack Fink Reporting
(CBS 11 News) DENTON A Denton man says the United States was premature in calling off the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
He was one of a handful of people who helped the U.S. military in its search, and says he's concerned about four sites in Iraq that he knows were not searched.
Dave Gaubatz, who is a retired military counter-terrorism agent, believes biological and chemical weapons could be buried at the four sites in Iraq.
The now chief investigator for the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office disputes the U.S.'s previous findings that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before the war.
When the Iraq war began in March, 2003, Gaubatz was one of a half dozen Americans assigned by the Pentagon to look for weapons of mass destruction.
On his website, Gaubatz claims there are four sites in Iraq, that were never inspected, that he believes may have biological and chemical weapons.
"It should have been out three years ago. I've been pushing for three years to get the sites inspected,” Gaubatz said.
At the end of 2004, when President Bush announced the search for weapons of mass destruction was over, Gaubatz said it wasn't over for him.
“I just raised my hand and I said too many people risked their lives to go in at the beginning of the war to identify sites."
Gaubatz claims when he left Iraq in July of 2003, he told his commanders to inspect those four sites in southern Iraq.
“The four I identified were the ones multiple people, Iraqis, told me had fresh chemical and biological weapons,” Gaubatz said.
In February and March, Gaubatz says he met with two republican congressmen, Curt Weldon, of Pennsylvania, and Peter Hoekstra, of Michigan, who put him in touch with intelligence agencies.
On Wednesday and Thursday of last week, Gaubatz says he met with two officers of the CIA, and another two officers of the Defense Intelligence Agency, at the Dallas FBI building. He says he presented his report, and pinpointed the four unsearched locations.
Gaubatz says he will keep his website open until the government searches the sites. While he can't guarantee weapons are at the sites, he says if they are there, he wouldn't want them to end up in the wrong hands.
So what you are saying - or implying - is that if it isn't in "binary form" we could have it released into the air in the quantities found and it wouldn't kill people?
Hmm...sounds like an offer that's too good to be true. What's on the coffee mug?
What does YES (GREEN) AND NO (RED) represent on the map?
"I didn't see anything in there that says the sarin was in binary form."
Here you go:
Washington officials say the significance of the find is that some chemical shells do still exist in Iraq, and it's thought that fighters there may be upping their attacks on U.S. forces by using such weapons.
The round was an old "binary-type" shell in which two chemicals held in separate sections are mixed after firing to produce sarin, Kimmitt said.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,120137,00.html
Another one here:
16 May 2004: 152mm Binary Chemical Improvised Explosive Device
A military unit near Baghdad Airport reported a suspect IED along the main road between the airport and the Green Zone (see figure 2). The munitions were remotely detonated and the remaining liquid tested positive in ISG field labs for the nerve agent Sarin and a key Sarin degradation product.
The partially detonated IED was an old prototype binary nerve agent munitions of the type Iraq declared it had field tested in the late 1980s. The munitions bear no markings, much like the sulfur mustard round reported on 2 May (see Figure 3). Insurgents may have looted or purchased the rounds believing they were conventional high explosive 155mm rounds. The use of this type of round as an IED does not allow sufficient time for mixing of the binary compounds and release in an effective manner, thus limiting the dispersal area of the chemicals.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/iraq_wmd_2004/chap5_annxF.html
I will give it to you but sorry I dont have the Coffee mug
Foreign Military Studies Office
Joint Reserve Intelligence Center
Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents
http://70.168.46.200/allFiles.aspx
Thanks.
There were also precursors found in Mosul.
US troops raiding a warehouse in the northern city of Mosul uncovered a suspected chemical weapons factory containing 1,500 gallons of chemicals believed destined for attacks on US and Iraqi forces and civilians, military officials said yesterday.
The early morning raid last Monday found 11 precursor agents, ''some of them quite dangerous by themselves," a military spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Steven Boylan, said in Baghdad.
Combined, the chemicals would yield an agent capable of ''lingering hazards" for those exposed to it, Boylan said. The likely targets would have been ''coalition and Iraqi security forces, and Iraqi civilians," partly because the chemicals would be difficult to keep from spreading over a wide area, he said.
Boylan said the suspected lab was new, dating from sometime after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2005/08/14/alleged_chemical_weapons_factory_uncovered_in_iraq/
IMO, the big legs will come out in late September or October. I'm sure there is a lot of interesting stuff to make the Democrats look foolish that have been previously classified.. stuff the NYT's were even to scared to report!
cBS? No thanks.
How hard would it be for the U.S. to prove or disprove this man's claims? Why would the U.S. just dismiss his claims after all this country has done in Iraq? Is the administration afraid of embarrassing the liberals if WMDs were found in these sites? I certainly don't put it past them considering their past of keeping quiet instead of firing back at the liberals when they make outragious claims.
The MSM and Dems are trying their darndest to cut off those legs.
They are, but they keep regenerating...
bttt
"proof of possible" makes my head hurt...
Thanks for the ping!!
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