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MSNBC: Huge weapons cache found -- possible chemical cannisters

Posted on 04/05/2003 5:24:29 AM PST by rhombus

On MSNBC now -- videos of "mysterious cannisters" that appear to be Russian in origin.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 200304; 200305; cannisters; illegalweapons; iraq; russia; russian; wmd; wmds
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1 posted on 04/05/2003 5:24:29 AM PST by rhombus
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that appear to be Russian in origin.

I'm shocked, SHOCKED!

2 posted on 04/05/2003 5:25:16 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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that appear to be Russian in origin.

I'm shocked, SHOCKED! Don't forget deeply saddened. :-)

3 posted on 04/05/2003 5:26:01 AM PST by rhombus
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Perhaps our troops have been ordered to "blitzkrieg" Baghdad so that we could seize these weapons before they could be used against us.
4 posted on 04/05/2003 5:26:05 AM PST by SamAdams76 (California wine beats French wine in blind taste tests. Boycott French wine.)
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Is it caviar?
5 posted on 04/05/2003 5:26:54 AM PST by woofie
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2nd Battalion 8th Marines. Cache inludes Russian binary agent transfer containers, and chem/bio artillery shells.

No word if the containers or shells have agents in them.
6 posted on 04/05/2003 5:27:12 AM PST by antaresequity
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Actually it seems like these weapons had been identified by passing marines but they kept moving and didn't have the time to examinine them -- 120 bunkers loaded with weapons.
7 posted on 04/05/2003 5:27:19 AM PST by rhombus
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Yep, large stacks of what appears to be Chemical Artillery Shells, and Chemical dispensers.

Russian finger prints all over this.

Binary dispenser with Russian Cyrillic Writting on it.

8 posted on 04/05/2003 5:28:15 AM PST by agincourt1415 (Old Europe can take a Hike off a Cliff)
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Don't forget deeply saddened.

I'm too tall to do the deeply saddened thing. (at 5'9")

9 posted on 04/05/2003 5:29:05 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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Thanksf for the info - MSNBC also reported word has been received that 6 members of the Baath party were hanged by other Iraqi's in town South of Baghdad......unconfirmed. Point is that word is passing to all of the Iraq cities and towns that the Allies ARE conquering every city - and ARE turning against the Saddamites themselves! THAT MUST CONTINUE!
10 posted on 04/05/2003 5:29:49 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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Why is MSNBC breaking all these chem stories? Why is FOX apparently behind on this? Is it just "the luck of the draw" and who happens to be with which unit when it comes across something like this?
11 posted on 04/05/2003 5:30:21 AM PST by LS
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Where is this weapons cache?
12 posted on 04/05/2003 5:31:27 AM PST by Genesis defender ("Free Republic, a hotbed of Christian Zionist opinionating.")
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I can't excited about this. Too many similar reports have fizzled.
13 posted on 04/05/2003 5:31:34 AM PST by Yardstick
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Why is MSNBC breaking all these chem stories? Why is FOX apparently behind on this? Is it just "the luck of the draw" and who happens to be with which unit when it comes across something like this?

I think it is the luck of the draw and where the embedded reporters are. Didn't Fox and Ollie North break the entry into Baghdad last night? Or did MSNBC do that to?

14 posted on 04/05/2003 5:31:50 AM PST by rhombus
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Yohoo! Hans! Over here.

No, look right here.

HERE!

For heaven's sake, are you blind, it's right under your nose.

You're not even trying.

15 posted on 04/05/2003 5:32:56 AM PST by The_Victor
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I think that's exactly the case. It's why FNC had the great vids of that 3rd ID battalion cruising through Baghdad this AM.
16 posted on 04/05/2003 5:32:56 AM PST by FreedomPoster
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It's the luck of the draw. For instance, FOX was the first net into Baghdad as far as I could tell. Wonder if Blix's phone is ringing off the hook yet?
17 posted on 04/05/2003 5:33:15 AM PST by mewzilla
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To: Yardstick
I can't excited about this. Too many similar reports have fizzled.

I don't expect they will find the nasties there either -- if they are in liquid form to be inserted into artillary shells, I would think that they will probably be in some sort of portable, transportable truck somewhere.

19 posted on 04/05/2003 5:33:29 AM PST by rhombus
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Fox is touting their video of the march into Baghdad. I think it's the luck of the draw, but I do enjoy channel surfing for embed reports
20 posted on 04/05/2003 5:37:23 AM PST by dawn53
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