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Saddam plans chemical attack, says British official
Hindustan Times ^
| March 22 2003
| AFP
Posted on 03/22/2003 10:36:00 AM PST by knighthawk
Iraqi soldiers in the country's south were found carrying new gas masks, a sign that Saddam Hussein might be planning chemical attacks, a British officer said on Saturday.
The discovery was reported by Lieutenant Colonel Buster Howes of the 42 Commando Royal Marines who are currently securing the Fao peninsula on the third day of their drive to oust Saddam.
Among the rundown weapons, ammunition and machinery found with the dead or captured Iraqis were some new respirators, with an expiry date of 2007, Howes said.
"This is a dark discovery and a stark warning to my men," the officer said. "But we are all very well drilled against the threat and cannot let it stop us in our mission."
US and British military officials have said their biggest fear is a possible chemical or biological attack despite warnings to Iraqi commanders to refuse any such orders or face war crimes charges.
Dozens of gas masks were taken off the Iraqis, but none owned any chemical protection suits, British officers said.
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: britishoficial; chemicalweapons; gasmasks; illegalweapons; iraq; warlist
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To: knighthawk
** new respirators, with an expiry date of 2007, Howes said.**
Expiration dates of 2007 -- Hmmmm. From Russia, China, France or Turkey?
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posted on
03/22/2003 1:52:48 PM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Sofa King
How stupid will Bush look if saddam doesn't have these weapons?
To: jsraggmann
How stupid will Hillary look if aliens come in during the night and tattoo "Snot Cannon" on her nose? How stupid will Ben Stein look if a bat gets tangled up in his hair and he leaves it there? How stupid will Jay Leno look if he accidentally stabs himself with a spoon on national televison?
We can play 'what if' all day, but it's more productive to stick to relatively probable stuff.
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posted on
03/22/2003 2:02:58 PM PST
by
Sofa King
(-I am Sofa King- tired of liberal BS!)
To: Terry Mross
Why can't we do another drop of leaflets with a picture of a dead Saddam?
To: BamaFan69
Hoping you are very much wrong.
To: Sofa King
LOL
I'd kinda like to see that first one happen, if you could arrange it.
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posted on
03/22/2003 2:26:40 PM PST
by
watchin
To: knighthawk
Bob Arnot on MSNBC reported earlier of our troops finding an envelope in a truck with instructions on how to distribute anthrax. They were testing the contents.
WAIT! That can't be so! Saddam told Dan Rather he didn't have any WMD.
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03/22/2003 3:13:01 PM PST
by
Catspaw
To: Maeve
Thanks. bttt . . .
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03/23/2003 2:45:26 AM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
To: knighthawk
This doesn't worry me too much. While Chemical weapons are a highly effective means of terrorizing and mass-murdering a civilian population, they are largely ineffective on the battlefield. Chemical weapons have been around since WW1, and they haven't changed much since then. There's a reason they've seen almost no combat use for the 90+ years they've existed.
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