CIA confirms WMD - Fox news alert (reported at DU)

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[epluribus_2]

can anyone confirm this? Their heads are exploding.

[epluribus_2]

second hand but could be hugh.

[Constitution Day]

BTTT for confirmation

[putupon]

could be hugh

maybe even series

[Billthedrill]

It doesn't take an awful lot to send that crowd into a snot-slinging hissy fit. Me, I'll just wait for the "they planted it" stories to start popping up - that will constitute better confirmation than any CIA report. BTT.

[Sir Gawain]

The DUmpster divers watch Fox? Who knew?

[Dead Corpse]

Sorry, I was in the shower. Is there and update?

[netmilsmom]

What are they saying at DU?
I can't go there it makes my hair fall out.

[MJY1288]

If this is true, most of the left wing media will need to be put on suicide watch and the 9 dwarfs who want to replace Bush might need to go into hiding

[fooman]

I always figured that if there were WMD it would be reported right before the meeting with pooty poot and the G8.

pooty gave blair a hard time with the "Where is YOUR WMD?" line.

[bigfootbob]

I just heard one of the Fox News Babes read at the top of the hour news the mobile labs that were found are indeed WMD. Probably parts of a BIGGER WMD program.

[50sDad]

Sooooooo tired of this...hope it is finally true.

[MJY1288]

"snot-slinging hissy fit"

ROFLMAO, That's one hell of a visual

[Constitution Day]

The DUmpster divers watch Fox? Who knew?

Well, I have switched to MSNBC and CNN a few times lately since Fox is on a "24-hour Scott Peterson news" kick.

[Connservative]

What are they saying at DU? I can't go there it makes my hair fall out.

Thanks! I haven't had my sinuses flushed with an efervescent beverage in a long time :p

pretty funny.

[Dead Corpse]

I thought those mobile labs had been "scrubbed" of any traces, then buried.

Anything a tad more concrete? I was really looking forward to watching a couple of the liberal squacking heads around here where I work, explode.

[michigander]

CIA confident Iraq trailer used for bio-weapons

No traces of biological warfare (BW) agents have been detected in a specially equipped tractor-trailer found in Iraq but US intelligence has concluded that production of biological warfare agents was its "only consistent logical purpose," the CIA has said.

Analysis of samples taken from the trailer, which was seized in April in northern Iraq, was "negative for five standard BW agents, including Bacillus anthracis, and for growth media for those agents," the Central Intelligence Agency report said.

"We suspect that the Iraqis thoroughly decontaminated the vehicle to remove evidence of BW agent production," the report said.

"Despite the lack of confirmatory samples, we nevertheless are confident that this trailer is a mobile BW production plant because of the source's description, equipment, and design," it said.

The report noted that an Iraqi source had alerted US intelligence before this year's war that led to the downfall of Saddam Hussein to the existence of similar mobile facilities for making biological warfare agents.

Experts who examined the trailer were unable to identify any legitimate industrial use that would justify the expense of a mobile production capacity, the report said.

"We have investigated what other industrial processes may require such equipment - a fermentor, refrigeration, and a gas capture system - and agree with the experts that BW agent production is the only consistent, logical purpose for these vehicles," it said.

[Mears]

I've switched from Fox many times in the past few weeks because of the Peterson insanity also.

I hope the news about WMD's is true and we don't have to listen to the lib nonsense anymore.

[finnman69]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=3&u=/ap/20030528/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_weapons_hunt

By JOHN J. LUMPKIN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Two trucks found in northern Iraq (news - web sites) filled with laboratory equipment are the strongest evidence yet that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) had a biological weapons program, the CIA (news - web sites) and Defense Intelligence Agency said in a report Wednesday.

No actual prohibited weapons were found in the trucks, but intelligence officials say the vehicles fit the description of a mobile biological weapons laboratory received from an Iraqi source. That source, a chemical engineer who claims to have managed one of the mobile labs, identified photographs of the captured trailers, the new intelligence report says.

The report comes as U.S. military forces in Iraq search for proof of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs that the Bush administration said was justification for the war that overthrew Saddam's regime last month.

Earlier this month, Pentagon (news - web sites) officials said the discovery of the first trailer — seized at a checkpoint near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on April 19 — could prove Iraq had active programs to produce weapons of mass destruction.

It and a second lab found in May have already been inspected by U.S. and British technical experts and a group of scientists from coalition countries. Another team of international experts arrived in Iraq Saturday to inspect the evidence and will likely need a few more days, U.S. officials in Iraq said Monday.

While the new report describes the trailers "as the strongest evidence to date that Iraq was hiding a biological warfare program," U.S. officials have not reported finding any proof that Iraq had such weapons ready for use.

The report says the first truck was captured by Kurdish allies in late April and turned over to U.S. forces. The second, though already looted, was found by U.S. forces in early May at the al-Kindi Research, Testing, Development and Engineering facility in Mosul.

Both contained equipment, such as fermenters, that could be used to make biological weapons, the report says.

"Examination of the trailers reveals that all of the equipment is permanently installed and interconnected, creating an ingeniously simple, self-contained bioprocessing system," the report says. "The trailers probably are part of a two- or possibly three-trailer unit. Both trailers we have found probably are designed to produce BW agent in unconcentrated liquid slurry."

A third trailer, found in Baghdad, is a mobile toxicology laboratory from the 1980s, the report says. It could have legitimate uses or be part of a weapons program.

The report dismisses alternate explanations for the trailers.

Captured Iraqi scientists have claimed the vehicles were for producing hydrogen for weather balloons that would support conventional artillery. The report acknowledges the trailers could be used to make hydrogen but says it would be inefficient compared to widely available commercial hydrogen generation systems.

"BW (Biological weapon) agent production is the only consistent, logical purpose for these vehicles," the report says.

The reports about the trailers, based largely on the Iraqi engineer's description, were a key component of Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites)'s February 2003 presentation to the United Nations (news - web sites) regarding Iraq's alleged weapons programs.

On the Net:

CIA/DIA report: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/iraqi_mobile_plants/index.html

[cricket]

Maybe a on joke on 'DU'?

[In God I trust]

My God, enough already!!! As soon as I was reading your post, FNC started in on a LP murder trial update with Geraldo.

Aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuugggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!

I can't take it any more!!!!