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Smoking gun, Exhibit C...

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Quote: Weapons experts were called Saturday to an occupied northern Iraqi air base in Kirkuk to determine if a warhead discovered there is laden with a chemical agent.

On Friday, a former Iraqi air force colonel claiming to be the former base commander told U.S. military officials he knew of 120 missiles within about an 18-mile radius of the city -- 24 of them carrying chemical munitions, according to an Army intelligence posting at the airfield's military headquarters.

The man said he had been freed recently from an Iraqi prison, military intelligence said.

The warhead was found in a box Friday during routine operations to secure the airfield by the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade. It is about the width of a coffee can and marked with a green band that military sources said is the universal symbol for chemical weaponry.

Two initial "improved chemical agent monitor" (ICAM) tests showed trace amounts of a nerve agent on the baseball bat-length warhead -- at the rear and in the middle where there is a screwed-down circular area about the size of a quarter.


<a href='http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/12/sprj.irq.chemical/index.html' target='_blank'>http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/12/...ical/index.html</a>
04-12-2003 03:38 PM
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big shock there

Funny, we find it in 3 weeks, yet UN inspectors couldn't find anything in 2 months.

hmmmmmmmmmm

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04-12-2003 09:41 PM
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calling_the_hogs Wrote:big shock there

Funny, we find it in 3 weeks, yet UN inspectors couldn't find anything in 2 months.

hmmmmmmmmmm

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"But the inspections were working"

Yeah right. :rolleyes:
04-12-2003 11:43 PM
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Funny, CNN is saying:

"Tests on a captured warhead found at an airfield near Kirkuk were inconclusive. One set showed trace amounts of a nerve agent consistent with leakage from a chemically armed weapon, military sources said. Another set of tests showed nothing. More tests were expected."

WMD may be found, or they may not, that remains to be seen. Maybe I should get my "news" from talk radio so that we can all be on the same page. :goldie:
04-13-2003 08:48 AM
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<a href='http://www.abc.net.au/news/justin/nat/newsnat-14apr2003-1.htm' target='_blank'>Here is one from that Bastion of Truth,........ABC.......and I guess you get all your info from Time, Newsweek and the Post.....</a> :rolleyes:
04-13-2003 02:18 PM
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Well? :rolleyes:
04-14-2003 08:26 PM
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Well, indeed!

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04-15-2003 04:32 AM
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<a href='http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s831423.htm' target='_blank'>He you go mr mensa</a>
04-15-2003 05:42 AM
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Mr. Mensa? Hmmm, I'm not the one too stupid to post the correct link.

Does the word "possible" mean that they haven't positively identified these missles as chemical weapons? Or, is it possible that, like every other instance so far, this is not quite the "smoking gun" we need to prove our case?

Let me know when you've got something, okay? :goldie:
04-15-2003 07:34 AM
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The entire point is the article was on the ABC web site. If I am going a bit fast for you, let me know.... :laugh: :wave: I can even enter things so they look like they are written with a large red crayon if you would like.
04-15-2003 10:20 AM
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