'Huge' Chemical Weapons Plant Found in Iraq

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[SolitaryMan]

A senior pentagon official has confirmed to Fox News on Sunday that coalition forces have discovered a "huge" chemical weapons factory near the Iraqi city of An Najaf, which is situated some 225 miles south of Baghdad.

Coalition troops are also said to be holding the general in charge of the facility.

[GeorgiaYankee]

Found by our heavily-armed US Weapons Inspectors -- the 1st Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division!!!!

[Torie]

Ya, I heard those. But I don't think anyone really knows. It is just a possibility, which I think is what the general said. The general also said he was a long student of, and loved, Arab culture. I wonder if TBL knows that the military's chief spokesperson in Qatar holds these views. Yet more "proof" that team Bush is full of symps, wouldn't you agree?

[Corin Stormhands]

They're just saying this to upstage the Oscars...

[Oldeconomybuyer]

U.S. troops find suspected chemical plant near An Najaf, officials say -AP Breaking News
MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer
(03-23) 17:55 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. troops have found a suspected chemical factory in Iraq and officials were trying to determine late Sunday whether it was involved in making chemical weapons, U.S. officials said. The plan...[snip]...

[Victoria Delsoul]

Excellent! No matter what they find in Iraq, it won't change the war protesters' mind. They have a political agenda and their minds are made up, so don't confuse them with the facts.

[Torie]

Where is the "weapon" word?

[Kozak]

Inspections Work

When carried out by these guys

[Salvation]

The Real Inspectors!

[Howlin]

Torie, if it weren't weapons, why would they BURY a chemical plant and boobytrap it?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Good point. The good guys need to make sure this story is 100% accurate, then broadcast it throughout the world.

Operation Decapitate.

[rs79bm]

Yes, and also have 30 soldiers and a general guarding it.

[Torie]

I haven't read the buried and boobytrapped words. What I read is that it was camoflauged to look like sand to aerial serveliance.

[jcmfreedom]

My father-in-law fought in WWII. His comment about the French is that they are worthless. He said when he was there that they wanted the Australians in front and the French way behind them. He said the Australians really knew how to fight!

[_Jim]

This is Hugh

Who is this 'Hugh' you mention?

Or do you by chance mean 'huge'?

[Howlin]

I have heard it reported on TWO different cable programs from the Pentagon that it was buried under some kind of "sand" thing so it could not be seen from above, and it also was boobytrapped.

Our WMD guys are there now, per the Pentagon.

[Salvation]

[arkady_renko]

Brett seems to be using the word "suspected" alot in his later reports.

[The PeteMan]

I wonder what little Tommy DasHOLE thinks about this?

[Semper911]

I hope one of the embedded journalists is getting footage of all this. If it is documented later it will be claimed to all be faked.

The bad thing is that the embedded reporter who broke this story is from the Jeruselem Post. (I read it here on FR earlier this afternooon.) Nothing against the JPost reporter, but we really need some other reporters in there, so the Arab world (and democrats) will believe it.

[Air Force Born]

OK, Greta's on. Had my doubts at first but Greta for Paula has been a good trade. Fox got a good middle reliever for a weak hitting left fielder.