U.S.: Iraq chlorine bomb factory was al-Qaida’s

Reuters ^ | February 24 2007

[jmc1969]

Al-Qaida militants in Iraq were preparing to make crude chemical weapons using chlorine at a car bomb factory discovered west of Baghdad this week, the U.S. military said on Saturday.

The military said the facility in Karma, east of Fallujah, had ties to recent attacks in which chlorine was used to transform explosives into makeshift chemical weapons that released suffocating gas and sickened dozens of people.

Lieutenant Colonel Valery Keaveny told reporters by video conference from the western province of Anbar that U.S. forces had found al-Qaida propaganda leaflets and “interactive DVDs” at the factory, which was raided on Tuesday.

“This is absolutely a display that al-Qaida is trying to adjust its barbaric tactics. Is this a threat? Yes. Are we prepared to deal with it? Yes,” Keaveny said.

Two bombs this week using chlorine killed at least eight people in Baghdad and Taji, just north of the capital. The bombs sickened dozens more people who complained of suffocation after inhaling gas released in the blasts.

At the Karma factory, U.S. troops found five vehicles, mortar and artillery rounds, homemade bombs, propane tanks and three 55-gallon barrels of chlorine.

[xcamel]

A little more background - ignore the UN bit.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789443/posts

[SandRat]

hmmmm,... could it be? Are the Presstitutes begining to get the message???? NAH!! It's only a temporary blip! Or is it.????

[pipecorp]

no wmd's allowed!

[MikeA]

But...but...but...Nancy Whorelosi says there are no Al Qaeda in Iraq.

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1790414/posts
US says Iraq chlorine bomb factory was al Qaeda's

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789530/posts
General Discusses Chlorine Bombs, Helicopter Shoot-downs

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789032/posts
Iraq Insurgents Use Chlorine in Bomb Attacks

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1787764/posts
Baghdad wakes up with an explosion (Clorine Gas Truck)

[rawcatslyentist]

Those weren't AQs, they were the Tooth Fairies. Same as all that VX that almost wiped out Aman Jordan a couple of years ago.

[TBP]

But chemical weapons are WMDs and everybody knows that there were no WMDs in Iraq.

[TBP]

But...but...but...Nancy Whorelosi says there are no Al Qaeda in Iraq.

And no chemical weapons either. Never have been.

[JoeFromSidney]

Use of chlorine cylinders was ingenious. Those guys aren't stupid. Phogene is an important industrial chemical, as well as a war gas. It's time to start protecting supplies of that. Beyond that, mustard gas isn't all that hard to make. Better start keeping track of the precursor chemicals.