Here is a typical example of one of the type of bunkers they had to seal with cement.
Posted on 06/19/2014 6:02:11 PM PDT by Nachum
With all eyes firmly focused on what really matters (the oil refineries), The Telegraph reports that ISIS has over-run a Saddam Hussein-era chemical weapons (CW) complex. The al-Muhanna 'mega-facility', about 60 miles south of Baghdad, gives the jihadists access to disused stores of hundreds of tonnes of potentially deadly poisons including mustard gas and sarin. The US state department is 'concerned' but "do not believe that the complex contains CW materials of military value." However, as a former commander of Britain's chemical weapons regiment warned, "we have seen that ISIS has used chemicals in explosions in Iraq before and has carried out experiments in Syria." This is likely great for ISIS 2014 Annual Report; but, of course, the other awkward question is: does this mean Saddam did have WMDs (and ISIS found them) after all?
As The Telegraph reports, the jihadist group bringing terror to Iraq overran a Saddam Hussein chemical weapons complex on Thursday...
Isis invaded the al-Muthanna mega-facility 60 miles north of Baghdad in a rapid takeover that the US government said was a matter of concern.
The facility was notorious in the 1980s and 1990s as the locus of Saddam’s industrial scale efforts to develop a chemical weapons development programme.
During its peak in the late 1980s to early 1990s, Iraq produced bunkers full of chemical munitions.
A CIA report on the facility said that 150 tons of mustard were produced each year at the peak from 1983 and pilot-scale production of Sarin began in 1984.
Its most recent description of al-Muthanna in 2007 paints a disturbing picture of chemicals strewn throughout the area.
“Two wars, sanctions and UN oversight reduced Iraqi’s premier production facility to a stockpile of old damaged and contaminated chemical munitions (sealed in bunkers), a wasteland full
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Here is a typical example of one of the type of bunkers they had to seal with cement.
There is no way S. Hussein, not to be confused with B. Hussein, had weapons of mass destruction. Bush lied about that. My “I’m smarter than you” daughter said so. /s
Many of us know there were WMDs because they were found in Iraq by our troops.
Others refuse to admit it and continue to spout that garbage.....a D Congressman did this morning on CSPAN.
They just won”t admit the truth.
If I was a terrorist, I’d want a couple of those
They cannot admit the truth, or had not been able to admit the truth, and we now know exactly why. The WMD that was there was bombed during Desert Storm and during Gulf War II. The bunkers holding these munitions were too dangerous to enter due to the bombing. So they could not say there were WMD in Iraq that could not be removed because of their own bombing campaign. They needed plausible deniability and they found none.
Aside from back gassed the Kurds, google ‘Clinton WMD.’
Well DUH! Of course he had WMD. One only needed to visit the mass graves of Kurds that he gassed to death. But that narrative never fit with the media’s agenda...........
Those are called binary weapons. For the safety of friendly forces during the storage, handling and loading phases, IIRC, ALL US and NATO chemical weapons are binary. The two components are mixed when the containing weapon is fired/dropped.
It has been 36 years since I was the Nuclear, Biological & Chemical (NBC) Warfare Officer for my squadron, so my memory may be fuzzy. If any Freepers have more accurate info, please correct me.
at the time, I heard and EOD warrant officer interviewed who said something to the effect that, “we found a can of Folgers, a pack of filters, fresh water, and a Mr. Coffee machine, but all the media reports is that there is no steaming hot cup of fresh brewed coffee.”
Really? That’s your answer? Suddenly they know all about this place and it’s history? And what is there? Evidently this place was known to western journalists for a long time. ‘
There is no way they could have developed the story on this place overnight.
Go away you partisan troll.
If George Bush would speak up! He knows!
We all know.
What ARE you talking about?
Now why did she want to do that? I suspect the meeting between Murdock and obamas friend Valerie Jarrett had something to do with it.
Short answer “yes” - Did Bush lie? - short answer “no”....
Indeed! She should have asked questions such as "what's your favorite color?" or "which comic book character do you prefer--Mickey Mouse or Porkie Pig?"
Megyn Kelly has gone over to the other side!
Yeah, funny how that always comes up...
The article says it has potentially usable chemical. It must have been far more usable 12 years ago.
good question for cheney and powell
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