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MSNBC - Marines Find 120 Bunkers Filled With Weapons
MSNBC | 4/05/03

Posted on 04/05/2003 10:24:37 AM PST by kattracks

97 miles south of Baghdad. May have found a chemical weapons dispenser. Iraqi fighter came forward to tell Marines chemical wepons hidden in the area.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bunker; illegalweapons; iraqifreedom; marines; warlist
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To: RobRoy; crz; Steven W.; All
"Although I believe we will find weapons, I will not gloat until we actually HAVE FOUND THEM AND IT IS AKNOWLEDGED IN THE PRESS."

I agree, we need links to "official news sources", please!! These stories are completely believable, but confirmed facts are needed, or else we'll be misled by the "one-time news report, OOPS, we made a mistake, never mind" type of report that the media is so famous for...

Besides the story above, please post any links you have on...

"One pint of the stuff they found the other day is enough to kill THOUSANDS of people. Then they found the factory in the north, which has been confirmed to have had Bot' and other nasties in it, proof that the terrorist cells have the stuff throughout the world by now since it was found in a terrorist controlled place."

and...

"Nonetheless, it is shown on NBC video that there are definitely some of these cannisters there, apparently Russian made chemical weapons disbursement devices, actually fairly new, it seemed."

Freegards, all...with all the news we get, isn't it amazing how little it actually is sometimes?!

/ aargh...!

61 posted on 04/05/2003 2:42:31 PM PST by 88keys ("I will lift my eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help"...may God help and bless us all.)
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To: crz
"JHC! They've already found WMD! How many times? One pint of the stuff they found the other day is enough to kill THOUSANDS of people."

I think this is more than a slight exaggeration. The bottle that was found was marked TABUN. Even CENTCOM aren't unduly worried about this as they recognise that this was an NBC training school. You require large amount of TABUN to inflict thousands of casualties not just a pint bottle. Tabun was originally developed as a pesticide way back in the 1930's. The Iraqi's probably use it to demonstrate the effects of nerve agent. Tether a goat and expose it to the TABUN to demonstrate to the troops the effects/symptoms of nerve agent. What is required to provide a smoking gun is the discovery of filled shells or large quantities of agents in Iraqi forces hands. The other smoking gun would be the discovery of a cache of SCUD and their associated transport erector launchers.
62 posted on 04/05/2003 2:45:29 PM PST by Tommyjo
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To: kattracks
Please confirm with a link. I can find no evidence of such a find. Tks.
63 posted on 04/05/2003 2:49:54 PM PST by KansasConservative1
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To: tillacum
he doesn't seem to have much of a clue either
64 posted on 04/05/2003 3:24:33 PM PST by vigilante2
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To: Norman Arbuthnot
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?.......paging Scott Ritter."

My guess is he is at either Burger King (children's section) or at an internet cafe surfing for 14 year old "chicks"...
65 posted on 04/05/2003 3:33:37 PM PST by Teetop (democrats....... socialist.........whats the difference?)
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To: Jinjelsnaps
French Mustard Gas

Grey Poupon?

66 posted on 04/05/2003 3:44:47 PM PST by 69ConvertibleFirebird (Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
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To: kattracks
LOOK IN THE MOSQUES...THEY'RE IN THE MOSQUES..."
67 posted on 04/05/2003 3:58:25 PM PST by CommandoFrank (Peer into the depths of hell and there is the face of Islam!)
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To: Norman Arbuthnot
Did you see the photograph of one of the weapons they found, it was painted gray. Gray is the color that is normally used to indicate bio/chem agents.

I found it amazing that they did not paint it green to camoflage it.

Anyone got a photo of it? I bet freepers with our store of knowledge could sort out some of the details on it.

68 posted on 04/05/2003 4:04:00 PM PST by mware
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To: cgk
Regarding your post...was there a thread that talked about this? I would like to read it. I'm not able to catch every piece of news posted. TIA.
69 posted on 04/05/2003 4:16:19 PM PST by SpookBrat
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To: kattracks
I noticed nothing much has been reported on this School that was suspected to have hidden WMD since this morning. Been watching FOX all day (couch potato sydrome arrives) and haven't seen or heard any updates?

Anyone know if any other info has been released?

70 posted on 04/05/2003 4:18:53 PM PST by sirchtruth
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To: Jinjelsnaps
French's Mustard Gas

ROFL!

71 posted on 04/05/2003 5:49:21 PM PST by putupon (The Frog Pond needs soap.)
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To: oyez
The mediots are trying!
72 posted on 04/05/2003 5:57:33 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Anti America Americans are outing themselves as their side loses in Iraq!)
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To: kattracks
I know the following is not going to make any difference to the folks on this forum that refuse to believe anything unless it comes from Fox, but here is the picture proof for your thread from MSNBC. Now they can say that MSNBC doctored the picture since Fox didn't report the find of these large amount of weapons. (sarcasm)

Seriously, they had an extensive report on this continually during the day including an interview with the Marine Commander. They showed military putting on chemical suits to check out these weapons as they begin to catalog them. There are more than 120 bunkers filled with more weapons that those combined at Camp Lejune and Camp Pendleton. They found a lot of warheads with the valves on the bottom to make them able to fill with chemical weapons!

Weapons uncovered A U.S. officer with the 2nd Battalion, 8th Regiment Marines examines tank rounds kept in a case marked "GHQ Jordan Armed Forces" at an abandoned Iraqi military complex south of the city of Diwaniya in central Iraq. The complex has more than 120 buildings, most of them housing different types of weapons, from bullets to missiles and mines.

73 posted on 04/05/2003 6:20:26 PM PST by PhiKapMom (Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US)
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To: mware
I saw that report throughout the day. David Kay said that chemical weapons are suposed to be painted grey but when he was in Iraq as the head of Nuclear Inspectors, they found all colors in the Iraqi arsenal.

The anchor asked Kay if this was this was the smoking gun and he said it was probably the amory espeically by the time they found all the weapons.

The Marines were going through starting to catalogue those 120+ bunkers. It was amazing to see the large amount of weapons and see the Russian warhead all set for chemical weapons load. Kay had never seen a warhead like that one with the valves. Warhead looked very new!
74 posted on 04/05/2003 6:26:25 PM PST by PhiKapMom (Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US)
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To: 88keys
Check out post #73 with the pictures that came from the MSNBC site. This story has been running all day on MSNBC complete with an interview with the Marine Commander of those troops not cataloging all they have found in these bunkers.
75 posted on 04/05/2003 6:28:28 PM PST by PhiKapMom (Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US)
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To: SpookBrat; OldFriend
"Regarding your post...was there a thread that talked about this? I would like to read it..."

Hi, I found it here, though I read about it on yahoo news, first. :)

3 CIA Assets Killed in Baghdad

I'd agree it is propaganda, as OldFriend said, but it worried me that this comes from "former & serving US Officials".

From the linked article: Sources told UPI that Iraqi counterintelligence killed the three, shooting two and cutting out the tongue of a third, who bled to death. They said U.S. intelligence had learned this from their forces on the ground in Iraq

76 posted on 04/05/2003 7:54:08 PM PST by cgk (the Mrs half)
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To: SpookBrat; OldFriend
"Regarding your post...was there a thread that talked about this? I would like to read it..."

Hi, I found it here, though I read about it on yahoo news, first. :)

3 CIA Assets Killed in Baghdad

I'd agree it is propaganda, as OldFriend said, but it worried me that this comes from "former & serving US Officials".

From the linked article: Sources told UPI that Iraqi counterintelligence killed the three, shooting two and cutting out the tongue of a third, who bled to death. They said U.S. intelligence had learned this from their forces on the ground in Iraq

77 posted on 04/05/2003 7:54:36 PM PST by cgk (the Mrs half)
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To: kattracks; *war_list; W.O.T.; 11th_VA; Libertarianize the GOP; Free the USA; knak; sakka; ...
OFFICIAL BUMP(TOPIC)LIST
78 posted on 04/05/2003 8:12:55 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Where is Saddam?)
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To: Osage Orange
I've heard, although it's never been confirmed,...that Blix contemplated his navel once.

Does that count?

No, that report is incorrect. He was actually wondering how that lint got there. Anonymous sources indicate he is still uncertain as to it's origin, and whether or not it has long-term implications for a satisfactory UN-sponsored outcome.

CA....

79 posted on 04/05/2003 10:18:37 PM PST by Chances Are (Whew! Seems I've once again found that silly grin!)
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To: cgk
>>Hopefully this guy has been removed from the area so he is not killed like those who tipped off our CIA to the whereabout of Saddam. <<

Really? The informers were killed?

regards,
risa
80 posted on 04/06/2003 12:16:34 AM PST by Risa
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