Posted on 07/20/2004 11:14:11 PM PDT by propertius
Edited on 07/21/2004 11:16:05 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Update from Wash Times: A U.S. military spokesman in Tikrit told United Press International that the report was untrue. "Nothing's been found. The report is not factual," said Master Sgt. Robert Cowens, a spokesman for the 1st Infantry Division... A spokesman with Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's office told UPI that the report concerning the alleged missiles and warheads emerged "while gathering information for Saddam Hussein's tribunal" during the interrogation of a captured former official of Saddam's regime.
Al Sabah, the Iraqi newspaper funded by the Coalition Provisional Authority, reports on its front page this morning that a former senior Ba'ath party activist has led coalition troops to three nuclear warheads hidden in a bunker.
Will post translation when we have it.
To: All
Here is story in full:
Headline: Khidhur (or Khidhir) al-Douri, back from the dead, reveals three nuclear missiles
Sources in the Interior ministry and the National Security Advisor's Office refused to comment on news reports that three missiles with nuclear warheads had been seized during the arrest of Khidhur al-Douri, the former Ba'ath party member.
Iraqi political sources, who requested anonimity, inisisted that Iraqi security authorities arrested al-Douri and seized the missiles.
The same sources told al-Sabah that al-Douri, who held meany Ba'ath party positions during the former regime, was falsely pronounced dead on its demise. Forged death certificates had been circulated.
He was arrested in an area between Oja and al-Dour, in Salahidine province.
The same sources said three missiles were found with nuclear heads attached in a tunnel six metres underground.
A cement layer six metres thick had been built over the tunnel to hide it from scientific ray detection that could detect the radiation emitted by the nuclear heads.
The tunnel leading to the three missiles is connected to a small hole that opens out on the main road between Ouja and Dour.
The sources said al-Douri was arrested after sending an email, specifying the location and a meeting place in Tikrit.
Authorities analysed the message. Iraqi forces then moved into the area, laying a trap that snared al-Douri and his son.
Al-Douri then revealed the location of the missiles. Various light weapons and money was also seized during the operation.
ENDS
171 posted on 07/21/2004 12:00:20 AM PDT by propertius
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Thanks!
I make my share of typos too, some of them funny.
bush put them there, using cheney and haliburton you moron...
what else?
cheney was there with a large pickup truck last week, wasn't he now?
The news would be bad news because there would be no way of knowing if this was ALL there was. If these had escaped detection, what else did?
Good news because it would shut up the peanut gallery yelling, "No WMDs!". Bad news because it would show how dangerous the region has become (not just tried to become).
bttt
Hi there, Korea? You poor thing. I'm about half an hour from Surfers Paradise in the Hinterland. Sure hope this story is true. Stay safe and come to see us soon
No need being sorry for me Fred. I work here, but get to travel often(like Thailand, probably even more fun than Surfers if you know what I mean). Appreciate your support for the cause. I, too, will be waiting with baited breath for this to be confirmed. It would be a Godsend.
you won't have to.
I give it 12 hours max, before they have sworn testimony of witnesses, anonymous mind you, who SAW cheney hiding them in a bunker using a forklift he got from his big buddies at halliburton...
After reading more of this thread,I want to rescind my previous post to you and go back to my original position.
This is all just a photo op designed to steal the Democrats thunder as they hold their convention. < /sarcasm >
If this is true...expect to see the President on TV tomorrow afternoon, or evening. With a HUGE grin on his face. "My fellow Americans, I've got something to tell you..."
That would be cause for a giant FReepers party.
I know you are attempting humor, but the moron part doesn't really work for me.
it was funny.
you shoulda laughed.
But I do expect something very like it will be on a bumper sticker before the week is out...
(and NO I don't think YOU are a moron...)
Well, I, for one, find the timing of this leak "interesting".
</sarcasm>
Nuclear?
Someone left a yellowcake out in the rain...
...and they'll never have that recipe again...oh noooooo
"Bush knew about these all along, and leaked this information, just now, to gain political advanatage... he is politicizing our national security!!!! GASP, and howls of protest!!!!"
honestly we can't win with these folks...
we could have video tapes of JFK crucifying puppies and offering three week old kittens in a satanic ritual and the lefties would still fall over and lick his dirty toes...
after all, it's anybody but Bush with these pukes.
Bush could part the pacific, democratize China, and raise the dead at arlington cemetary... and all they would want to do is find a way to get rid of him quicker.
Bush is NOT a perfect conservative.
I kick about LOTS of things I KNOW he is too liberal on... but the true lefties kick him, especially when he IS right... because they simply HATE good people and a righteous agenda.
It matters NOT what we find.
NOTHING will turn off the vitriolic, inbred hatred of the lefties. They have no honor.
and I honestly believe, they are for the most part, drug adelpated fools.
yuup there you have it...
rofl
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