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Two US Soldiers injured in Sarin laced IED explosion (per Gen Kimmitt)
CENTCOM | 5/17/04

Posted on 05/17/2004 7:20:20 AM PDT by Nexus

Just now, looking for copy...


TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: iraq; sarin; wmd
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To: hobson

no krap - it was ALL LEFT OVER and was supposed to be destroyed, Traitor Kaye!


101 posted on 05/17/2004 7:51:15 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: George Smiley

At least with Sarin you know right away. It is the undetected anthrax that worries me.


102 posted on 05/17/2004 7:51:15 AM PDT by TBall
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To: finnman69
>A roadside bomb containing sarin nerve agent exploded near a U.S. military convoy, the U.S. military said Monday

Well, what happens now?!
The theory has always been
that if anyone

uses biochems
against us, then our response
would be big time fierce . . .

103 posted on 05/17/2004 7:51:38 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: George Smiley

NBC.. also once called CBN.. Chem,Bio,Nuke.. all 54E military MOS.. I did it for about 6 months, end of my last 3 yr. stint..


104 posted on 05/17/2004 7:51:45 AM PDT by Drammach (The Wolves are at the Door... Hey, Kids! Your lunch is here!)
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To: Nexus

The two soldiers have "minor health problems", per CNN.


105 posted on 05/17/2004 7:51:49 AM PDT by Nexus
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To: Nexus
Hard copy is finally hitting the web. From Scotsman.com

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2938462

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Sarin Nerve Gas Bomb Explodes in Iraq

"PA"

A roadside bomb containing sarin nerve agent has exploded in Iraq near a US military convoy, said a US military spokesman today. There were no casualties.

“The Iraqi Survey Group confirmed today that a 155 millimetre artillery round containing sarin nerve agent had been found,” said Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, the chief military spokesman in Iraq.

“The round had been rigged as an IED (improvised explosive device) which was discovered by a US force convoy.

“A detonation occurred before the IED could be rendered inoperable. This produced a very small dispersal of agent,” he said.

Iraq began producing sarin in 1984 and admitted to possessing 790 tons of it in 1995.

Saddam Hussein used the gas against Kurds in northern Iraq in 1988.
/PA

106 posted on 05/17/2004 7:51:51 AM PDT by TomGuy (Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
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To: Right_in_Virginia
Why do you say "unknowingly"?

I said may have unknowingly used it. They may have thought it was a conventional warhead. The chemical rounds are probably marked differently but the terrorists may not have understood the markings. Or maybe they are stupid enough to hand us a propaganda victory. Let's send the remnants to Hans Blix.

107 posted on 05/17/2004 7:52:18 AM PDT by Dilbert56
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To: Drammach

I'm loath to admit this, but I was watching MSNBC. (Yes let teh floggings begin) Anyway, they had David Kay on and he was spinning this as:
"This is a leftover munition from the early ninties. We went to war because Iraq was supposed to be actively producing rounds. This is just one shell, probably mixed up with others and over looked when Saddam destoryed the others."

And there we have the new lib talking points of the day.


108 posted on 05/17/2004 7:53:02 AM PDT by brothers4thID (Saying Dr. Rice hadn't heard of Al Queda is like saying Dr. Ruth hadn't heard about sex)
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To: epluribus_2

The true Times motto is "All the news that fits our slant"


109 posted on 05/17/2004 7:53:19 AM PDT by Keith (IT'S ABOUT THE JUDGES)
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To: jerod

Thanks.


110 posted on 05/17/2004 7:53:43 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: Carolinamom; StriperSniper; Mo1
Next Liberal spin="It's ONLY ONE WMD."

LOL!!!

111 posted on 05/17/2004 7:54:07 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: Keith

The exposed soldiers have been released.


112 posted on 05/17/2004 7:54:16 AM PDT by bonfire
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FROM SKY NEWS:

NERVE GAS SHELL EXPLODES IN IRAQ

A shell loaded with the deadly sarin nerve gas has exploded in Iraq.

The artillery round, which was set up as a roadside bomb, went off as Coalition soldiers were inspecting it.

Two soldiers were treated for minor injures.

Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt told a news conference that only a small amount of the gas was released.

"Two explosive ordnance team members were treated for minor exposure to nerve agent as a result of the partial detonation of the round," Kimmitt told a press conference in Baghdad.

He said that the deadly agent was produced after two chemicals in separate sections of the shell mixed after it was fired.

"Mixing and dispersal of the agent from such a projectile as an IED (improvised explosive device) is very limited," he said.

"The former regime had declared all such rounds destroyed before the 1991 Gulf war."

A sarin gas attack on Tokyo's subway, carried out by the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult in 1995, killed 12 people.

A single drop of the gas can cause an agonising, choking death.

113 posted on 05/17/2004 7:55:04 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
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To: Nexus
Those soldiers just THINK they were injured By a Sarin containing bomb.

That thought was probably put in their heads by Karl Rove, or Dick Cheney or a Halliburton contractor.

Everyone – but Fox news watchers – knows that their were never any WMD’s in Iraq. And Saddam Hussein used profits from oil sales to buy medicine and fluffy bunny toys for Iraqi kids. Until Cheney and Halliburton took those fluffy bunny toys and filled them with sand to protect Halliburton profit-mongering employees.

That is why, everywhere you go in Iraq nowadays, there are local peasants protesting at the gates of the fluffy-bunny sandbag protected encampments of the Imperialist American military-industrial-Halliburton invaders.

114 posted on 05/17/2004 7:55:06 AM PDT by keithtoo (Please remove all Kerry-on luggage from your forehead compartments.)
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To: OneTimeLurker

I'll give it a shot.Some tank and artillery shell do not activate untill the thrust of being sent downrange. In this instance, TAWAG, is since it was blown up in place by conventional explosive it didn't get a chance to mix completly, hence a small amount was released.


115 posted on 05/17/2004 7:55:12 AM PDT by eastforker (The color of justice is green,just ask Johny Cochran!)
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To: OneTimeLurker
Why would an exploded artillery shell have a "small release?

Kimmitt said that it was a two chamber setup, where two chemicals have to mix to get the desired full result. Since it exploded on the ground and not launched from an artillery piece, I guess the process didn't have time to complete. Can anyone be more specific?

116 posted on 05/17/2004 7:55:12 AM PDT by Nexus
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To: brothers4thID; bonfire

See my post #92. It didn't take a crystal ball either!


117 posted on 05/17/2004 7:55:22 AM PDT by Carolinamom
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To: bonfire
How do these people even hold jobs???

By doing exactly what they are told to do.

118 posted on 05/17/2004 7:55:27 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Missing Iraqi botulinum toxin? Look at John Kerry's face)
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To: OneTimeLurker
From reply #82:

"The round was an old binary-type requiring the mixing of two chemical components in separate sections of the cell before the deadly agent is produced," Kimmitt said. "The cell is designed to work after being fired from an artillery piece."

He said the dispersal of the nerve agent from a device such as the homemade bomb is "limited."

119 posted on 05/17/2004 7:55:46 AM PDT by michigander (The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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To: bonfire
"or that we "planted" it

Oh yeah...

sw

120 posted on 05/17/2004 7:55:46 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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