No information on where it's come from yet - sounds "home made"
Breaking news: Nerve gas found in Iraq
by Simon 23 Replies latest social current
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franklin J
...are we surprised?
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ignored_one
However, a senior coalition source has told the BBC the round does not signal the discovery of weapons of mass destruction or the escalation of insurgent activity.
He said the round dated back to the Iran-Iraq war and coalition officials were not sure whether the fighters even knew what it contained.
So they could have been there for years?
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Ignored One.
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ThiChi
The fact is we have not even secured half of the 200 + munitions sites in Iraq..... time will tell
"...Sounds Homemade.."
You mean like making salsa? Or homemade apple pie? Give me a break!
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Yerusalyim
Simon,
It was "Jerry Rigged" to explode as an IED, the round itself was actually quite complicated. It's a bianary device which needed to mix two chemicals together to produce the explosion. Did anyone mention the Mustard Gas shell found two weeks ago?
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Simon
I think the important bit is:
However, a senior coalition source has told the BBC the round does not signal the discovery of weapons of mass destruction or the escalation of insurgent activity.
He said the round dated back to the Iran-Iraq war and coalition officials were not sure whether the fighters even knew what it contained.
Sounds like an old shell that someone hid or came across.
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Yerusalyim
It's gotta be anything except that Iraq really did have WMD, right Simon? I mean, after all, we've secured some 50 or so of the known 200+ ammunition storage sites, and investigated exactly ZERO locations similar to those in which Libya hid it's WMD...such a thorough search surely means that there are no WMD.
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Simon
We know we had some. The fact is they didn't still have them. There is bound to be the odd shell but there is nothing like the stockpiles you tried to make out.
Remember Powell's presentation and "proof" about WoMD ? Well, they now admit it was bogus:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was wrong about Iraq's purported pre-war mobile biological weapons laboratories, a key part of the case about suspected weapons of mass destruction, Secretary of State Colin Powell has said.
"I'm very concerned," he said in reply to a question on the NBC program "Meet the Press" about having used claims in a U.N. Security Council speech now known to have been "inaccurate and discredited."
"When I made that presentation in February 2003, it was based on the best information that the Central Intelligence Agency made available to me," he said on Sunday.
Last month, Powell described the assertions he made about the purported labs as "the most dramatic" element of his February 5, 2003, speech. He acknowledged on April 2 the information was suspect but stopped short of drawing any public conclusions.
In his comments on NBC, Powell went further.
"It turned out that the sourcing was inaccurate and wrong and, in some cases, deliberately misleading. And for that, I am disappointed, and I regret it," he said.
As recently as January, Vice President Dick Cheney cited the discovery of two trucks as "conclusive" evidence of the mobile labs described by Powell. But CIA Director George Tenet later told Congress he had warned Cheney not to be so categorical about the discovery.
A CIA spokesman declined comment.
Sorry Yeru. Keep cluthing at your straws though - it's good comedy value.
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dolphman
The fact of the matter is, it is a WMD probably taken from a hidden stockpile of some kind. Whether or not it's from the Iran Iraq war, what does that matter? It's a weapon Saddam was NOT allowed to have, not even one. And one little shell alone is enough to violate the UN ban. So therefore, the discovery of this little shell has justified the reason to go to war.
It's a sad day for Bush haters everywhere.
--dolphmn
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RevMalk
Bush Haters are just like JWs, they believe what they want to believe no matter what evidence they're faced with. It's never enough and always followed by a better explaination.
Rev