Reuters: Iraq Shows Baby Milk Store at Reported Weapons Site

Reuters ^ | Aug 20, 2002 | Huda Majeed Saleh

[mikegi]

TAJI, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq showed reporters a warehouse stuffed with baby milk and sugar on Tuesday to repudiate a U.S. newspaper report that the building was being used to produce biological weapons.

Iraqi Trade Minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh met international media at a warehouse in the Taji area northwest of Baghdad, which U.S. intelligence officials quoted in the Washington Times newspaper last week said was a biological weapons facility.

But instead of weapons and sophisticated labs, reporters on Tuesday found baby milk and sugar which had been bought under Iraq's oil-for-food deal with the United Nations.

"They (Americans) are checking every movement in Iraq, but a satellite cannot tell real information," Saleh told reporters at the site. "This is rubbish information, actually rubbish information to convert baby milk and baby food and sugar to weapons of mass destruction."

[mikegi]

Here we go again with the "Baby Milk" crap. Come on, Saddam, be original!

[Spruce]

Indeed! The only products stored in Iraqi warehouses are baby-milk and aspirin.

[ex-Texan]

However this baby milk is fatal if the bag is opened.

[Moby Grape]

These dumb-asses use the SAME trick for years....what a bunch of baboons....yet, some in the liberal media will accept the "evidence".

[debg]

note: "The warehouse, which was used to store meat before the 1991 Gulf War, was completely destroyed during the war. It was recently rebuilt by a French company. "

Arabia.com (Iraq) called it a "Single Cell Protein Plant."

Reuters photo showed bags of sugar.

just your corner store, i betcha

[Eric in the Ozarks]

A fella can store damn near anything he wants in his gun safe.

[mhking]

Didn't we do this again years ago in the department of redundancy department?

[bonfire]

They sure make alot of "formula" in Iraq. How many milk factories does this make?

[dighton]

But Bullwinkle, that trick never works!

[bandleader]

This sounds like an old"Get Smart!"episode!!Max says:"Ahhh,It's The Old Baby Milk Trick"!!!

[general_re]

But Bullwinkle, that trick never works!

You think I'm scary - you're scary. I was thinking that exact same thing when I saw the headline.

Stay the heck out of my head - where's my foil? ;)

[Spruce]

Maybe we should hang some "Prayer rug factory" signs at the Pentagon. Or some "Camel training school" signs on the White house. That would keep them safe. How about a "Bridge to mosque" signs on the Golden gate.

[DrDavid]

I'm not a biochemist, but it seems to me that baby milk could provide a good nutrient base for biological weapons that target humans..