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Two US Soldiers injured in Sarin laced IED explosion (per Gen Kimmitt)
CENTCOM | 5/17/04

Posted on 05/17/2004 7:20:20 AM PDT by Nexus

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To: TomGuy
Military detonated it.They were attempting to disable it, and it detonated on its own. At least that's what I thought I heard.
41 posted on 05/17/2004 7:35:08 AM PDT by Nexus
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To: Nexus
Just on Fox News.. IED made from artillery shell containing SARIN ..

Discussion ensuing.. LIVE

42 posted on 05/17/2004 7:35:11 AM PDT by Drammach (The Wolves are at the Door... Hey, Kids! Your lunch is here!)
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To: Nexus
It's Bush's fault. He should have had the maid pick up Iraq before the war.

Hope this isn't true, but it wouldn't surprise me.

43 posted on 05/17/2004 7:35:18 AM PDT by TheLurkerX ("Please tell me that this time around JFK stands for Just F'ing Kidding.")
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To: Crazieman
ROADSIDE SARIN BOMB addendum - Actual article
44 posted on 05/17/2004 7:35:20 AM PDT by Crazieman
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To: TomGuy

WMD artillery and rocket rounds are found every month in Iraq but the media never reports it. Somebody F-d up BIGTIME. There will be parking spaces and barstools lost over this.


45 posted on 05/17/2004 7:36:01 AM PDT by Justa (Politically Correct is morally wrong.)
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To: sarasota
I don't think there is a distinction:

WMD =

Chemical - Sarin

Biological - Smallpox

Nuclear - Obvious

All WMD's. Of course this won't stop the MSM from avoiding it...

46 posted on 05/17/2004 7:36:28 AM PDT by Damocles (sword of...)
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To: Right_in_Virginia

It has also been widely reported that, in Iraq, chemical weapons munitions were stored side-by-side with conventional ones. Some scum terrorist may have unknowingly included a chemical warhead in an IED.


47 posted on 05/17/2004 7:36:47 AM PDT by Dilbert56
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To: Nexus

But the Democrats have assured us that Bush and company just made the WMD story up so that we could go to war for oil!.


48 posted on 05/17/2004 7:37:00 AM PDT by claudiustg (Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
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To: Nexus

we never did hear anything more about that alleged attack in Jordan that was allegedly going to use gas and was allegedly thwarted.


49 posted on 05/17/2004 7:37:14 AM PDT by oceanview
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To: Tamsey
A briefing on sarin used against our troops and the reporter asked to switch the topic to Abu Ghraib...

Just when you think the press can't sink any lower...

50 posted on 05/17/2004 7:37:22 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
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To: Crazieman; Nexus
From that article:
"The Iraqi Survey Group confirmed today that a 155-millimeter artillery round containing sarin nerve agent had been found," said Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the chief military spokesman in Iraq. "The round had been rigged as an IED (improvised explosive device) which was discovered by a U.S. force convoy.

"A detonation occurred before the IED could be rendered inoperable. This produced a very small dispersal of agent," he said.


51 posted on 05/17/2004 7:37:28 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Dilbert56

Why do you say "unknowingly"?


52 posted on 05/17/2004 7:37:49 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Nexus
CNN is showing rambling-rose Kerry rambling about something



[Notice the looks of enthusiasm on the faces of those in the background.]


Update on Sarin, per FoxNews:
Roadside bomb explosed near convey--no one hurt, but Sarin was detected
53 posted on 05/17/2004 7:38:02 AM PDT by TomGuy (Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
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To: Mo1

-The liberals have told us all there are no WMD in Iraq

Iraq has been the destination of a wide range of thugs with all sorts of "gadgets" since the borders became porous after the war... so now anything could be in eyeraq.


54 posted on 05/17/2004 7:38:12 AM PDT by birg
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To: Tamsey

"A briefing on sarin used against our troops and the reporter asked to switch the topic to Abu Ghraib..."

this is why the press is america's greatest enemy.


55 posted on 05/17/2004 7:39:01 AM PDT by Stellar Dendrite
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To: Nexus
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/05/17/international1027EDT0555.DTL
56 posted on 05/17/2004 7:39:14 AM PDT by jdege
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To: Drammach

Looks like the left is going to have a fire sale on "Bush Lied" and "No WMD" signs, stickers, and other crap like it.


57 posted on 05/17/2004 7:39:19 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Proud member of the right wing extremist Neanderthals.)
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To: birg

I think the liberal press will say "this is just one warhead" .... well how many will it take to convince people?


58 posted on 05/17/2004 7:39:56 AM PDT by cohokie
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To: TomGuy
[Notice the looks of enthusiasm on the faces of those in the background.]

They match the enthusiam on the candidate's face.

59 posted on 05/17/2004 7:40:02 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Drammach

where is the depot? I read some other threads here, supposedly the Marines wiped out a depot (buried) near Fallujah where alot of the insurgents and terrorists got the shells used to maek these IEDs. NEver saw much else about that. Maybe they found a new source?


60 posted on 05/17/2004 7:40:07 AM PDT by oceanview
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