[Almondjoy]

Fox was reporting at first that it was a chemical site... about an hour and a half or two hours later they changed it to say "suspected chemical weapons site". Huge difference.

[kcvl]

ABC News cited one unidentified official as saying of the captured Iraqi general: "He is a potential gold mine of evidence about the weapons Saddam Hussein said he does not have."

Asked to comment on the reports, a Central Command official said in an e-mail: "While media reports are premature, we are looking into sites of interest."

U.S. defense officials urged caution about the reports.

"Confirmation of any (chemical weapons) site would require a thorough investigation and take some time," said one defense official, who asked not to be named. "It may turn out to be a chemical weapons site, or it may be a site that was producing something else."

Earlier on Sunday, U.S. Lt. Gen. John Abizaid told reporters at Central Command headquarters in Qatar that there had been reports that some Iraqi units in the vicinity of Al Kut "may have some type of chemical weapons."

[so_real]

Along the same "back-pedaling" thread ... I keep hearing the term SCUD used in the news. Last I heard, the jury was still out as to whether the missiles taken out by that patriots were indeed SCUDs or not. Has the pentagon confirmed that some of these missiles were indeed SCUDs?

[Sofa King]

Well, it IS a chemical site. Whether or not it is a chemical WEAPONS site they were never saying for sure in the first place.