Terrorist devices, chemical weapons found in Iraq

News 8 Austin ^ | April 22,2003 | News 8 Austin wire and staff

[FairOpinion]

U.S. Central Command says terrorist devices have been found in Iraq. At a briefing Tuesday morning, Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks offered up examples of coffee tables laden with explosives and "suicide vests." Brooks also described the progress in the search for weapons of mass destruction.

"The most important part of it frankly, is that with every day that goes by, we get more and more information, we have more pieces of the puzzle being revealed to us and given some of the players we are currently taking into our custody and those we continue to seek. We remain confident that we'll find the evidence of the program that's been in place in Iraq for sometime,” Brooks said.

Brooks also said coalition forces are under a ceasefire in Iraq with a group it identified as People's Mujahadeen, a group he said is viewed as a terrorist organization.

In the meantime, other military officials say weapons experts in Iraq have found ingredients and equipment that could be used to make a chemical weapon. The New York Times reported the discovery was made south of Baghdad several days ago with the help of an Iraqi scientist. Officials in Washington haven't confirmed the information.

[Grampa Dave]

That is a definite change and a sign that they have been reached out and touched.

Maybe that phone call that ChIraq made to GW had some embarrassing things pointed out to ChIraq by GW.

[FairOpinion]

"There is a desperate need to find some WMD's"
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Actually I think that the intelligence services of ALL major countries already have incontrovertible evidence, which they had for years, it just not being released for various reasons.

[GailA]

Maybe it's not a very intelligent question but I'll ask it any way. Some of these Chem we are finding in and of themselves are not chem weapons. BUT IF mixed together at the last minute might they not make a "chem weapon"?

After all dynamite with out all the ingredients in the right amounts, isn't dynamite.

[Grampa Dave]

Absolutely with the proper additives!

[GailA]

I thought so. So we store them in seperate sites, when we need them we bring them together and mix.......neat way to hide the crap in the open under hanzy blix's nose. Heck just changing the pesticide levels a tiny degree would make it into one of those chem toxins I'd think.

[js1138]

It's been pretty quiet on the "are we there yet" front. The anti-Bush crowd has noticed the constant stream of horrrors coming out of Iraq and decided the lack of WMDs isn't at the front of most people's minds. So they have switched to "losing the peace" as the dominant theme.