Second Iraq 'Mystery Weapon' More 'Nefarious' Than the First

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,253713,00.html ^ | 02/22/07 | Sara Bonisteel

[Blogger]

A mysterious green cantaloupe-sized metal ball with an unknown firing device, found in 2005 by GIs and a freelance journalist in Mosul, Iraq, is confounding weapons experts trying to pinpoint its origin.

Dubbed "Mystery Weapon 2" by Iraq-based journalist Michael Yon, the orb was found under a barn among a weapons stockpile that was later destroyed by the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment.

"If there's anything that, honest to God, could have nefarious overtones, it's that, because nobody was able to tell what it was," Yon said.

[Blogger]

Thoughts?

[null and void]

The Apple of Discord?

[Paco]

A camel apple?

[null and void]

IBM?

[Uncle Ike]

"Ask again later"......

[null and void]

LOL! And the thread hijack is complete...

[redgolum]

Looks like a bomblet from a cluster bomb.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I think it was one of Saddam's party favors.

[Lexington Green]

It's a Holy Handgrenade

[fish hawk]

Ask it a question and shake it, then wait and see what answer comes up in the little window.

[sinanju]

'Cept for the green paint and presumably modern fuze assembly, it looks like an eighteenth-century grenado.

[bnelson44]

ping

[beltfed308]

A camouflaged magic 8 ball?

[sinanju]

Say, maybe it is. I remember a fascinating article about the contact mines that the Iranians were using in the Straits of Hormuz twenty years ago during the tanker reflagging operation.

They were apparently manufactured for the tsarist military during the Russo-Japanese war of 1904. They then spent eight or so decades being sold from one east-bloc tyranny to another until the Iranians bought them in a job lot of old stuff from the North Koreans. They should have been in a museum but they still worked all too well.

So maybe our heroes discovered a piece of reconditioned Napoleonic war surplus, hey?

[The Great RJ]

Perhaps it's a single sub-munition of the type packaged in cluster bombs.

[woofie]

Its off a 46 Pontiac

[Jonah Hex]

It's a baby Death Star...

[LiberalBassTurds]

It's one of Pelosi's testicular implants mysteriously lost during her Iraq trip.

LBT
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[Squidpup]

Green Goblin Pumpkin bomb

[arthurus]

The green paint makes it Islamic.