Aw, "Goddangit!" (as our President is wont to say), I thought that our guys were going to hit something like the Baby Milk Factory!! 
A "Goodonya Lads!" to the SF or SAS boyos who pulled this off!
Galvanized aluminum indeed!
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Posted on 06/05/2002 4:26:34 PM PDT by knighthawk
Sulaimaniya – A huge explosion has been reported in al-Nasser Enterprise, one of Iraq’s major weapons factories specialized in the manufacture of missile parts.
The authorities blamed the blast, last Saturday, on an electrical short-circuit which allegedly caused a huge fire in the galvanized aluminum section of the sprawling factory north of Baghdad.
Eyewitnesses said it was so horrific that it took fire fighters more than 24 hours to put out the blaze.
A site engineer estimated the losses at more than three million dollars. There were no reports of casualties. He spoke to Iraq Press on condition of anonymity.
Iraq’s government-controlled media ignored the incident though many in Baghdad heard the explosion and saw the plumes of smoke rising from the blaze.
Al-Nasser was target of heavy allied bombing during the 1991 Gulf War. It was also attacked in the four-day air and missile bombing the United States and Britain mounted late in 1998.
But Iraqi engineers managed to reconstruct the factory after each bombing.
The damage from the latest blaze could have been catastrophic if the engineers had not removed all explosive material for fear of yet another U.S. military strike, the engineer said.
U.N. weapons inspectors had installed scores of remote-control cameras to inspect activities at al-Nasser.
What kind of a moron would galvanize aluminum?
Aw, "Goddangit!" (as our President is wont to say), I thought that our guys were going to hit something like the Baby Milk Factory!!
A "Goodonya Lads!" to the SF or SAS boyos who pulled this off!
Galvanized aluminum indeed!
Be Seeing You,
Chris
That galvanized aluminum in the desert must become a long burning material.
Children, the spelling word today is:
PREEMPTIVE!
This word was used by President Bush in his address at West Point!
Methinks I detect a whiff of the Mossad at work.
LOL!! Sounds like one of our industrial salesmen got to the Iraqis and sold them the "deluxe" model. :^)
Is that a roller rink? If they let the women skate, that would be one helluva trip hazard.
I am not a metallurgist, but I know that some Freepers here are, as well as others being talented metalsmiths and machinists.
For those people, the question I have is 'Isn't a vast quantity of powdered aluminum a pretty dangerous thing to have laying around near flames and sparks?'.
Sounds like Iraq put their first man into orbit.
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