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MSNBC - Cyanide & Mustard Agents Found in Euphrates River
MSNBC
| 4/04/03
Posted on 04/04/2003 6:45:05 AM PST by kattracks
Edited on 04/04/2003 7:19:19 AM PST by Admin Moderator.
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While testing for water to be processed for US Marines, these agents were found in the Euphrates River- Bob Arnot reporting.
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: battleforbaghdd; illegalweapons; iraqifreedom; marines; poison; viceisclosing; water
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To: WillVoteForFood
Said Hans Blix, "I am confident that is not mustard agent or any other proscribed agent, but is instead French's Mustard, which Iraq long ago declared to have in mass quantities." ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That blix guy sure has turned out to be a crock of %hit hasn't he???
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posted on
04/04/2003 6:50:38 AM PST
by
GUIDO
(.)
To: kattracks
OOOOHhhh, this is going to make the environmentalist antiwar protestors mad. Saddam could blow away all his people, kill all our guys, but for heavens sake, he contaminated a river? Its going to get ugly quick :)
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posted on
04/04/2003 6:51:13 AM PST
by
Cate
((LET FREEDOM RING!!!!))
To: kattracks
I remember seeing a report where Saddam would go "fishing" by throwing grenades into the river, and having his lackeys scoop up the fish (now why haven't we ever seen that on the American Sportsman?). It is obvious to anyone with half a brain (Blix, perhaps), that these chemicals in the river are just another fishing technique.
To: kattracks
I wonder whether, in attempts to get rid of excess stocks by soldiers in the field that want to give up, these idjits are dumping it in the river.
The other reason could be Saddam wants to poison the populous AND the coalition; however, I don't know about how the 'dilution-factor' would affect the effectiveness of theses substances.
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posted on
04/04/2003 6:51:36 AM PST
by
DoctorMichael
(Liberalism = Evil)
To: Aggie Mama
If we find Saddamn and his psycho offspring still alive we ought to make them official water testers for the people of Iraq.
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posted on
04/04/2003 6:51:56 AM PST
by
mewzilla
To: kattracks
Could this have any connection to the underground tunnels from the Airport to the Rivers?
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posted on
04/04/2003 6:52:18 AM PST
by
Solson
(Terrorists of the world: IGNITE!)
To: WillVoteForFood
Said Hans Blix, "I am confident that is not mustard agent or any other proscribed agent, but is instead French's Mustard, which Iraq long ago declared to have in mass quantities." Pardon me, Hans. Do you have any Grey Poupon?
To: kattracks
Not good!
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posted on
04/04/2003 6:54:46 AM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Cate
OOOOHhhh, this is going to make the environmentalist antiwar protestors mad. Saddam could blow away all his people, kill all our guys, but for heavens sake, he contaminated a river? Its going to get ugly quick :) More likely, they will balme us for starting the war. If we hadn't gone in, there would have been no need to contaminate Mother earth.
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posted on
04/04/2003 6:54:49 AM PST
by
trebb
To: All
Arnot going through the whole thing on MSNBC right now.
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posted on
04/04/2003 6:56:15 AM PST
by
bart99
To: kattracks
Maybe they need to be dredging the rivers?
No telling WHAT the Bad Guys have thrown in there!
Tia
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posted on
04/04/2003 6:58:08 AM PST
by
tiamat
("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno World!")
To: kattracks
1. ] Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
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posted on
04/04/2003 6:58:14 AM PST
by
per loin
To: Sender
Prollie Ted Koppel's pee
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posted on
04/04/2003 6:58:14 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(without the brave, there would be no land of the free)
To: kattracks
Bob Arnott reporting "Division level briefing explained that high concentrations of mustard and cyanide agents found in water before going through purification."
"Water from Euphrates"
"intended to kill Marines because it was found near purification unit used by Marines"
To: kattracks
Wow! This may be the real deal!
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posted on
04/04/2003 6:58:55 AM PST
by
ArcLight
To: All
just before 10:00 AM another phone report from Arnot. Cyanide and Mustard agents in high concentrations in the Eurphrates.
Reverse Osmosis unit with the Marines was filtering the water out to purify it. In the process, tested the water before putting it into the filters. Found large concentrations of cyanide and mustard agents. Arnot is getting this from the regimental commander and intelligence officer. Belief is that it was done deliberately to poison the Marines, rather than an attempt to get rid of it. Apparently the agents are so small that they would not be stopped by the reverse osmosis filters, so this is why they've been testing.
[If this is the case, then downsteam water supplies for the civilians will now be endangered]
To: All
Arnot says typically the agents would be really diluted in a river like that, but becasue it's a large concentration, then it appears intentional and done to poison US troops.
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posted on
04/04/2003 6:59:11 AM PST
by
bart99
To: kattracks
Now they have done it. They have pi$$ed of Greenpeace! Here comes the hippies in the rubber rafts!
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posted on
04/04/2003 7:00:43 AM PST
by
j_k_l
To: Herodotus
Was this what they were up to with the fifty gallon drums..?
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posted on
04/04/2003 7:01:12 AM PST
by
mewzilla
To: Herodotus
He's going to bring in the divisional NBC [nuclear/biological/chemical] officer to answer questions. The Marines are pushing Arnot to get this story out...it could be a big deal...esp. if they are minutes away from finding the guys who put this into the water upstream!
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