potential chemical factory found...as the world turns

welcome to 12 hours ago.

Stop NAPing...lol

already posted 18 threads on this...

amp i'm honored, this is my first thread that you have ever responded to. granted it was a slam but fuck it, your amp.

What??? Iraq with a chemical weapons facility??? How could something like that be???

i posted the topic not to inform people of the factories, but to get a response from the question(didnt use a ? in the run on). thanks for the sarcasm though, had this been real life it might have been witty.

.... oh get over it

Chemical weapon find report 'premature': US
March 24 2003, 1:32 PM




Reports that US troops have found a suspected chemical factory in Iraq were "premature", the Pentagon said today.

Officials were trying to determine whether the plant, near the city of An Najaf, which US troops reached today on a push to Baghdad, was involved in making chemical weapons, officials said.

Asked at a news conference in Qatar today about reports of the chemical plant, Lieutenant General John Abizaid of US Central Command declined comment, AP reported.

He said top Iraqi officers had been questioned about chemical weapons.

"We have an Iraqi general officer, two Iraqi general officers that we have taken prisoner, and they are providing us with information," he said said.

"Media reports are premature," the US Central Command said, in a brief statement read by Pentagon spokesman Major James Cassella. But he added: "We are looking into sites of interest."

Meanwhile, Ewen Buchanan, spokesman for UN weapons inspectors, said the weapons inspectors are not aware of any large-scale chemical sites which could be used to make chemical weapons in An Najaf. However, there are many such dual-use sites in other parts of the country because of Iraq's petrochemical industry.

UN inspectors visited a cement plant in An Najaf earlier this year but did not report finding anything.

The US military's discovery was first reported in the Jerusalem Post, which has a reporter travelling with the unit from the Army's 3rd Infantry Division that reached the chemical plant. The newspaper reported that about 30 Iraqi troops, including a general, surrendered at the plant.

Reuters quoted Fox News and the Jerusalem Post, which had a reporter travelling with the US forces, which cited unidentified Pentagon officials as saying the facility was seized by the First Brigade of the US Army's 3rd Infantry Division as they advanced north toward Baghdad.

About 30 Iraqi troops, including their commanding general, surrendered to US forces as they overtook the installation, apparently used to produce chemical weapons, the Jerusalem Post reported.

One soldier was lightly wounded when a booby-trap exploded as he was clearing the sheetmetal-lined facility, the report said.

The 40-hectare complex is adjacent to military barracks and surrounded by an electric fence, the report said.

It was not immediately clear what chemicals were being produced at the facility, but both reports said the Iraqis had tried to camouflage the facility so it looked like the surrounding desert and would not be spotted from the air.

ABC News cited one unidentified official as saying of the captured Iraqi general: "He is a potential gold mine of evidence about the weapons Saddam Hussein said he does not have."

your right, no more cheap bumps for ma long over due thread.

Yeah he's got WMD. but let's not be willingly mislead by the sensationalist media. they've already been caught out a few times over the past couple of days.

It happens. Like I said in another thread, everyone wants to be the first to get on the air/in print with the news, so mistakes happen. I usually give any controversial reports a 24-hour cooling off period. By then, the stories have usually been worked out.

SpaceAce

First of all: They said they found a factory but cannot say that it is or was a chemical weapons factory.

I was waiting for that news since the beginning of that war because it had to come. Either he had those factories or the US would have to invent one for him to don't look like fools.

I don't trust any party in this war to report the truth. It's as simple as that. I don't trust the US nor the Iraq to tell anything near the truth.

I believe the newest reports say 2 chem plants *may* have been discovered so far. They are not saying they are or are not definately yet.

I believe Saddam's been to the moon.

I had dinner with him there!

maybe they will say 'oops'

In french obviously.

Yeah! I heard it on CNN. I believe that too!

arent you new?

its tradition to post that your new in a new thread.
follow the rules

I still haven't.. Think it's too late?

VETO

gofuckyourself!

also, whaleomelette - gofuckyourself

:-D

awww, thanks!

I didn't join up to engage in petty word slinging matches with witless morons like you!!!

Well, originally i didnt.

Nap, this is exactly what the people who were against going in are going to say. Don't worry what the germans, russians or french think, it is irrelevant at this point. They should be more concerned about what will be coming out about their relationships with saddam. That is why they are trying to deflect the issues... Luckily for them they have 'sheep' in the US who hate Bush with a passion...

Whats the icon for surrender. If its a battle of wits I wanna know what to look out for?

This is the icon for surrender. If you see your enemy waving this, you know you are victorious.

It's a *very* fine line between a fertalizer chemical plant and a chemical weapons producing plant. The same raw ingredients can be used to produce both.

Look for the media to neglect to mention this point.

Get used to it... it could become ugy here ....

It's the pitts and ... shit flyes everywhere....

They will find HUGE CARROTS....

LOL! That cracked me up

that's bs and was expected to appear. It adds up to the past news: Saddam is dead, his son is dead, the war is close to an end, the majority of iraqish soldiers are surrending, iraqish citizens see the us and uk troops as heroes.... yeah ok.

NEXT

On the subject of media speculation, I find it more believable that the SAS trained french poodles to sniff out land mines.

Why would that be hard to believe?

moreover.. why wouldn't you want it to be true? damn I hate poodles

HAHA. Nasty bastards poodles.