[fire and forget]

The site apparently appears to be a chemical weapons facility. They're slow in taking the steps to confirm this because who knows what kind of trap they'll find inside. They'll take their time to minimize risks.

Give 'em a few more hours. If they're right and this is what it's believed to be, this is a huge event.

On the political end, we're covering ourselves should there not be enough evidence (no real or convincing product, for example) that this truly is the first "smoking gun" confirming that Bush's policy is correct. In any event, everything so far points to this being the real deal. It's a military facility, evidently commanded by a general officer. What else might it be unless it's an elaborate ruse?

[BurbankKarl]

maybe they are awaiting the opening of markets in Europe...nothing like a rising dollar/lowering euro to shake those eu'ers

[so_real]

an elaborate ruse

That's what I was fearing ... at least until I heard this was a known target that intelligence had wanted checked out for some time. Happening across such a find in a dessert the size of California just seemed to good to be true. I figured it was a plant designed to gain sympathies for Hussein (ie. a fertilizer factory or something else similar to the same deal as the baby food factory).