Marines hold nuclear site

Pittsburgh Tribune Review ^ | Wednesday, April 9, 2003 | Carl Prine

[Ditto]

SOUTH OF BAGHDAD

[Ymani Cricket]

Bump

[WarSlut]

Is this the complex that the former weapons inspector was describing on the Coast to Coast show about three or four weeks ago? Bill Tierney, right?

It sounds like it. If it is, we'll be hearing Bill on Hannity's show tomorrow, no doubt.

[ISawIt]

I'd like to point out something that you've missed.

Which is more dangerous, from a practical standpoint?

A pound of C4, surrounded by a buffer, hence surrounded by 1kg of Anthrax spores?

A pound of C4, surrounded by a buffer, hence surrounded by 1kg of VX with a dispersal agent?

A pound of C4, NOT surrounded by a buffer (don't need it, eh?), and hence surrounded by ANY of the contents of ANY of those barrels.

Detonate each of these in A. New York, B. Los Angeles, and C. San Francisco.

Now, I riddle you this. Which city will you NOT want to live in, 1 year after the attack?

If you've followed me to this point -- you will realize that your premise about "weapons-grade" is faulty, because ANY material emitting enough REM IS WEAPONS GRADE, perhaps not fissionable, but weapons grade nonetheless.

I find that Iraq possessing several billion (trillion?)REM worth of Nuclear Waste is very notable; in fact, it's more notable than their possessing all or more than what they declared in their chemical and biologics stockpile and capability in 1991.

For someone who seems (at first appearance at least) to have some knowledge of physics, I am rather surprised that you didn't think of it this way.

On the record, I will say that I agree with the basic tenets of your skepticism, but that you're missing the forest for the log on a swinging rope crushing your skull.

[whadizit]

"..certain rights...."

Good question. I guess if a network does not have an embedded reporter with that battalion, or whatever, they cannot report it. But we see other stories spread around.

[Torie]

Maybe. I find the failure to pick up this story well, mysterious. Something is missing from the picture.

[concerned about politics]

The inspectors came away with nothing.

I'm sure that's what they were "suppose to do". Anyone think Blix was really looking?

[Bronzewound]

Bump!

[Bronzewound]

BUMP!

[Humidston]

Wowzer bump!

[FairOpinion]

"ANY material emitting enough REM IS WEAPONS GRADE, perhaps not fissionable, but weapons grade nonetheless."

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I think that is why there was/is all the concern about dirty bombs.

[Lady In Blue]

Another story,the media isn't covering,is the story about the 150 children released from prison yesterday by our Marines! It's an outrage!

[lonevoice]

Bump for both of these reports. I don't get it.

[Spirited]

Good grief.

[Future Useless Eater]

nice find with the photos of post 31.

My guess is that someone is doing a serious job of covering
their tracks.

The UN photos show EXACTLY where the inspectors were at the
time. With those photos, we might now be able to PROVE the
Islamic inspectors were on Saddam's payroll. It could very well
be that the evidence was there and unmistakeable when the UN
visited in February.

By the way, Google searches no longer turn up ANY search hits
for the terms you mentioned, and the pages were erased
at yahoo.

[FairOpinion]

Here is an article from FoxNews: "they looked and looked, and found nothing, absolutely nothing"

Dec. 9, 2002:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,72504,00.html

Inspectors Visit Chlorine Plant, Nuke Site

Inspection teams scoured the three nuclear sites near the town of al-Tuwaitha, 15 miles southeast of Baghdad, picking up from where U.N. nuclear agency inspectors left off in 1998, when they left Iraq amid disputes between Baghdad and the United Nations.

Many buildings at the three sites — including the giant al-Tuwaitha nuclear complex — were destroyed in heavy U.S. bombing in the 1991 Gulf War. Through the 1990s, al-Tuwaitha was scrutinized by U.N. nuclear agency inspectors under a postwar U.N. monitoring regime to ensure Iraq did not develop weapons of mass destruction.

Faiz al-Bayrakdar, adviser at the al-Tuwaitha complex, told reporters 16 inspectors visited his site Monday.

U.N. teams want to ensure that Iraqi specialists at al-Tuwaitha and other sites did not resume nuclear weapons research during the four years when no inspectors were in the country. Recent satellite photos show new construction at the plant.

A spokesman for the U.N. inspectors, Hiro Ueki, said inspections also took place Monday at two other nuclear sites — al-Shakyli and al-Qa'qaa — located near al-Tuwaitha.

The al-Shakyli complex had been a storage area where crucial equipment for a nuclear bomb program was discovered during the 1990s. Al-Qa'qaa was involved in working on the final design for a nuclear bomb.

"A detailed inspection was made of al-Shakyli. All buildings were inspected and sampled for the detection of radiological materials," Ueki said.

At al-Qa'qaa, Ueki said inspectors began inventorying known explosive materials from the past nuclear program, which had fallen under control of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

They also inspected several key buildings and outdoor sites within the huge complex. No further details were available.

On Sunday, a presidential science adviser said the three massive reports — totaling more than 12,000 pages — that Baghdad submitted to the United Nations outlined Iraqi efforts to build a nuclear bomb until the Gulf War in 1991.

The adviser, Lt. Gen. Amer al-Saadi, said Iraq no longer has such a program.

Last Wednesday, in their first visit to al-Tuwaitha, specialists of the IAEA — the U.N. nuclear watchdog — spent five hours going "room to room," team leader Jacques Baute reported afterward. But they needed more time to complete their inspection of the complex of more than 100 buildings, he said.

[FairOpinion]

Some imagery of Tuwaitha -- shows new construction in 2002.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iraq/tuwaitha-imagery.htm

[bdeaner]

BUMP

[Dolphy]

By the way, Google searches no longer turn up ANY search hits for the terms you mentioned, and the pages were erased at yahoo.

Not to be stupid, or to be stupid, what is the cause of this disappearing information?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Nothing.

Zero.

Nada in those stories about UNDERGROUND facilities of ANY kind. if the inspectors knew about the underground areas (CIA or Iraqi or other sources), they (deliberately) ignored the message. If the inspectors had gone underground, it would have been mentioned.

[epow]

It could be reported that every evil, twisted, murderous, torturing, mass destructing, germ weaponized, nerve gas spraying device is discovered in Iraq and liberals won't care. None of those things can match the evil that is George Bush.

Absolutely right. All anyone has to do to verify your statement for themselves is to go over to DU and read a few topics. A bitter, implacable hatred for Bush drips from every post. Many of the posts contain fervent wishes for Bush and his family to an spend an eternity burning in hell. I read one very long thread devoted exclusively to expressing the most virulent hatred for Dubya and the entire Bush family imaginable. Those people are some really sick puppies.