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  • Suspected Weapons Lab Is Found in Northern Iraq

    05/10/2003 8:51:11 PM PDT · by inconspicuous · 24 replies · 463+ views
    New York Times ^ | May 9 | SABRINA TAVERNISE
    MOSUL, Iraq, May 9 — An American military unit found an abandoned trailer outside a missile testing site in northern Iraq today that they suspect was a mobile biological weapons laboratory. It was the second such find in recent weeks, and could potentially bolster the United States' claim that Saddam Hussein's government was producing biological and chemical weapons. Not long after the division arrived in Mosul in April, Major Handelman said, an engineer from the plant handed over what the major called "a treasure map" of clues to what was buried inside the complex. Mounds of earth, some that looked...
  • 2 CACHES OF SUSPICIOUS WEAPONS FOUND; CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL TESTS UNDER WAY

    04/06/2003 11:44:12 AM PDT · by inconspicuous · 84 replies · 351+ views
    Charlotte Observer ^ | Posted on Sun, Apr. 06, 2003 | ANDREA GERLIN, PETER SMOLOWITZ STEVEN THOMMA
    (snip) Marines discovered at least two caches of Iraq military warheads in the Iraqi countryside that were being tested as possible chemical or biological weapons. Military sources said that warheads were found in Aziziyah, about 55 miles southeast of Baghdad. They were being run through a battery of sophisticated analyses by the military. Another stash of rockets was found in the central Iraqi town of Sayyid Abid, military sources said, each was equipped with clear vials containing an unknown substance. Military biological hazard teams are investigating. Finally, Army chemical weapons detection teams have been called to a field outside of...