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US finds missiles with chemical weapons-NPR radio
Reuters
| Monday, April 7, 2003
Posted on 04/07/2003 7:28:30 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
US finds missiles with chemical weapons-NPR radio
WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) - U.S. forces near Baghdad found a weapons cache of around 20 medium-range missiles equipped with potent chemical weapons, the U.S. news station National Public Radio reported on Monday.
NPR, which attributed the report to a top official with the 1st Marine Division, said the rockets, BM-21 missiles, were equipped with sarin and mustard gas and were "ready to fire." It quoted the source as saying new U.S. intelligence data showed the chemicals were "not just trace elements."
It said the cache was discovered by Marines with the 101st Airborne Division, which was following up behind the Army after it seized Baghdad's international airport.
U.S. Central Command headquarters in Qatar had no immediate comment.
The United States and Britain launched the war against Iraq to rid the country of weapons of mass destruction. Iraq denies having such weapons.
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chemicalweapons; illegalweapons; iraqifreedom; missiles; nerveagents; viceisclosing; wmd
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To: JohnHuang2
Oh my! What will the left say -- NPR is gospel to them.
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posted on
04/07/2003 7:30:00 AM PDT
by
rhombus
To: rhombus
Exactly. Their whole world comes crumbling down now.
To: JohnHuang2
Didn't you know, that as a freeper you weren't allowed to listen to NPR?
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posted on
04/07/2003 7:31:09 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
To: JohnHuang2
But, but..Hans Blitzed told us there weren't any!!
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posted on
04/07/2003 7:31:09 AM PDT
by
ewing
To: JohnHuang2
It said the cache was discovered by Marines with the 101st Airborne Division, BS Alert.
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posted on
04/07/2003 7:31:47 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(Standing tough under Stars and Stripes)
To: JohnHuang2
WOW..a prayer they will not use them anywhere.
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posted on
04/07/2003 7:32:09 AM PDT
by
MEG33
To: JohnHuang2
Bob Arnot with MSNBC just reported within the hour that 2 SA missiles were launched southeast from inside Baghdad... hope it wasn't some of those poison gas warheads on them.
To: ewing
YEAH! We did it. Even NPR has to admit we were right.
To: Prince Charles
SA is surface to air (anti-aircraft)
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posted on
04/07/2003 7:33:04 AM PDT
by
BillM
To: stuartcr
Operational Pause Reuters is listening for me ;)
To: JohnHuang2
Finally. Just the beginning. Thanks be to GOD these missiles were not fired.
To: republicanwizard
We need a better source than NPR.
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posted on
04/07/2003 7:33:36 AM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: ewing
But, but..Hans Blitzed told us there weren't any!! Ignorance is Blix !!
To: Freedom'sWorthIt
Amen, my friend
To: JohnHuang2
It said the cache was discovered by Marines with the 101st Airborne Division....I'm afraid you have your facts a little garbled. The people in the 101st Airborne are soldiers in the U. S. Army -- they are not U. S. Marines.
To: stuartcr
Didn't you know, that as a freeper you weren't allowed to listen to NPR?Doctor's orders ... says my blood pressure is too low. I must listen to NPR to increase blood pressure.
To: CholeraJoe
It said the cache was discovered by Marines with the 101st Airborne Division, BS Alert.
You beat me to it.
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posted on
04/07/2003 7:34:34 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Bumperootus!)
To: One_who_hopes_to_know
LOL!
To: BillM
Correction noted.
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