“The last remaining WMD, the contents of Saddam’s nuclear weapons labs, were still inside Iraq on the day when the coalition forces arrived in 2003. His nuclear weapons equipment was hidden in enormous underwater warehouses beneath the Euphrates River. Saddam’s entire nuclear inventory was later stolen from these warehouses right out from under the Americans’ noses.”
Has anyone seen these enormous underwater warehouses? Where along the Euphrates were they located? If they exist, why haven’t there been pictures or film of them?
I'm wondering the same...
But wouldn't it be easier to have some Iraqi tell us where the entrances were/are? That is, if there actually were underwater "warehouses".
Otherwise;
Off-the-shelf marine depth sounders, sonar, and plotters, (or a PC runnning a plotting program --- there are quite few to choose from) could be rigged up, and searches made for anomalies, which could then be investigated in greater detail.
I don't know how far North the Euphrates is navigatable, though a very shallow draft boat would suffice, as long as it could carry some limited equipment, including a genset. Which leads me to think that one could go quite a ways. Besides, if access was not from the bank of the river, but instead, simply straight down somewhwere near the middle of the river, then the depth would need to float a fairly good sized barge, I'd guess.
We wouldn't have to send Clive Cussler's boys to do it, either. I'd do it for pretty cheap, as long as it was all contracted "cost plus"!
“Has anyone seen these enormous underwater warehouses? Where along the Euphrates were they located? If they exist, why haven’t there been pictures or film of them?”
Count me a skeptic too, if this were true why is this the first time these underwater warehouses have ever been mentioned?
Surely someone here would have heard of this before now.