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Sunni Extremists in Iraq Occupy Saddam's Chemical Weapons Facility
WSJ ^
| June 19, 2014
| Julian E. Barnes
Posted on 06/19/2014 8:36:40 AM PDT by don-o
Washington—Sunni extremists in Iraq have occupied what was once Saddam Hussein's premier chemical-weapons production facility, a complex that still contains a stockpile of old weapons, State Department and other U.S. government officials said.
U.S. officials don't believe the Sunni militants will be able to create a functional chemical weapon from the material. The weapons stockpiled at the Al Muthanna complex are old, contaminated...
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chemicalweapons; iraq; iraqcrisis; isis; wmds
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Don't believe... Right.
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:36:40 AM PDT
by
don-o
To: don-o
I thought there was no WMD in Iraq.
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:38:27 AM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: don-o
Wait . . . wait, I thought there were no WMDs in Iraq.
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:38:41 AM PDT
by
ricmc2175
To: don-o
Who knew Saddam had a chemical weapons factory???? major sarc
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:39:32 AM PDT
by
ColdOne
(I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11))
To: ricmc2175
Hard to keep up, ain’t it?
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:39:41 AM PDT
by
don-o
(He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
To: don-o
Wait, everyone was screaming at me for a decade that there were no WMDs.
What happened?
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:40:45 AM PDT
by
wideawake
To: don-o
"a complex that still contains a stockpile of old weapons, State Department and other U.S. government officials said" 0bama Administration admits Saddam had WMD!
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:41:41 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Radicalized via the Internet)
To: wideawake
So far, only finding the WSJ report.
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:43:04 AM PDT
by
don-o
(He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
To: don-o
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:45:24 AM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Uninstall Fascist Firefox. Get Pale Moon.)
To: wideawake
Oh! I get it now!
Bush was too stoopid to find them. It took the genius and brilliance of Obama to get er done!
Okay. I’m gonna go puke now.
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:47:11 AM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Uninstall Fascist Firefox. Get Pale Moon.)
To: don-o
Did Obama give them the maps while training them in Jordan,
OR did he give them the maps with the MANPADs in Libya,
OR with the SAMs in Egypt, or with the sarin in Syria?
To: ColdOne
Why were these facilities not destroyed during the Bush years?
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:49:40 AM PDT
by
353FMG
To: Diogenesis
Has anyone had the cajones to arrest Clown Prince nobama as yet?
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:49:44 AM PDT
by
ogen hal
(First amendment or reeducation camp)
To: 353FMG
I thought he couldn’t find them?
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:50:59 AM PDT
by
ColdOne
(I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11))
To: don-o
To: Nachum
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:52:48 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: don-o
Weapons of mass destruction? Call Hans Blix, dubya, the UN.
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:53:38 AM PDT
by
PGalt
To: don-o
Does anyone believe liberals would learn anything if a WMD was set off by a terrorist in a major liberal city?
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:55:04 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: headstamp 2
Funny how that worked out.Journalists will be the first people to the wall if a second revolution comes.
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:55:19 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: Farmer Dean
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posted on
06/19/2014 8:56:53 AM PDT
by
don-o
(He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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