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By Tim Ripley NEW satellite images of an Iraqi nerve gas plant show that the site has been rebuilt after being bombed by the United States, but there seems to be little sign that production of chemical weapons is under way. The site, named Fallujah I, some 38 miles north-west of Baghdad, is one of three similar facilities built in the late 1980s around the town of Habbaniyah to mass-produce elements, known as precursors, of the nerve gases used in the Iran-Iraq war and against the Kurds in 1988 and 1991. Images taken by an American company, DigitalGlobe, and published...

<p>Satellite pix show that three chemical facilities in Iraq - Fullujah I, II and III - wrecked in the 1991 Gulf War are back in business.</p> <p>August 19, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - These mysterious chemical factories northwest of Baghdad are a major reason the Bush administration thinks war with Iraq is inevitable.</p>

Fallujah, Iraq (Nov. 18, 2004) -- FALLUJAH, Iraq--Marines of Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, assaulted a mosque recently, in Fallujah during Operation Al Fajr; by a tactical assault with air strikes and artillery fire. The Mosque was one storage facility for weapons used by insurgents to assault United States forces. “Our primary mission as a company was to take over the Mosque,” said Staff Sgt. Barto Gueta, 2nd squad, 2nd Platoon K/3/1. “It was suspected of being a large weapons cache. So we had to take it out.” A combination of air strikes and artillery, followed by a...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 April 16, 2004Release Number: 04-04-15 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MARINES UNCOVER SIGNIFICANT WEAPONS CACHE CAMP FULLUJAH, Iraq -- Marines in Fallujah April 16 discovered a significant weapons cache and engaged enemy forces after coming under fire. Marines discovered a large weapons cache in a two-story home in Fallujah and another on the edge of a wheat field. Marines recovered the following from the house:One AK-47 with two full magazinesOne surface-to-air missile launcher with one missile From the wheat field, Marines found:One...

I need this board/you more now than I ever will and I hope you can offer me some advice on how to find a calm or maybe even my faith again after the murders in Fullujah. I have never posted before so please understand if this is formatted incorrectly or otherwise. What can "WE" do? Where do I/ we go from here? The HATE I feel in my heart since the murders in Fullujah is so strong that for the first time in my life I am afraid of even speaking to my family and children about what happened. I...

I will keep this brief... It seems to me that the war in Iraq has its share of problems in the chaotic aftermath of Saddam's fall. Not that I never supported it. I did from the start and I still do today. I believe it was and is a neccessary war, and the terrorism that is going on there today proves it so. I am not going to bother getting into the details as to why this war was just and neccessary, and how it has produced more good than bad, because I think it all has been said...