Posted on 07/21/2004 10:23:54 AM PDT by ambrose
Thursday 22nd July, 2004
Nuclear arms reportedly found in Iraq --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Big News Network.com Thursday 22nd July, 2004
Iraqi security reportedly discovered three missiles carrying nuclear heads concealed in a concrete trench northwest of Baghdad, official sources said Wednesday.
The official daily al-Sabah quoted the sources as saying the missiles were discovered in trenches near the city of Tikrit, the hometown of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
The three missiles were discovered by chance when the Iraqi security forces captured former Baath party official Khoder al-Douri who revealed during interrogation the location of the missiles saying they carried nuclear heads, the sources said.
They pointed out that the missiles were actually discovered in the trenches lying under six meters of concrete and designed in a way to unable sophisticated sensors from discovering nuclear radiation.
The sources said al-Douri, who is related to former Vice Chairman of the Iraq Revolution Council and Saddam's right-hand man Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, was captured after Iraqi police intercepted an e-mail message in which he set a meeting with another former Baath official.
The report could not be authenticated by the interior ministry or the national security department, but the paper noted Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiar Zibari made a surprise request recently to Mohammed el-Baradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, to resume inspections for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
The giant sucking sound we are hearing is the collective yawn of ABCNBCCBSAPNYTWPLATUPI, Reuters, et al.
This time I can't fault them as too many of these reports have simply disappeared. Perhaps some day we will find out why.
Yea, but it was only 3 old nuclear weapons!
Show me pictures and a geiger counter reading, then I'm on board.
Come, come, this is not possible. I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you, because everyone knows that there are NO WMD in Iraq and there never were! That's for sure. I know because Hans Blix, David Kay, John Kerry, Bill and Hillary, etc., etc. said so. They wouldn't lie would they?
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1175358/posts?q=1&&page=1
Alas this report is already being debunked. As much as I would like to believe it I think we'd better not start celebrating until confirmed by better sources.
A bunch of secondary media outlets citing the same Iraqi newspaper doesn't make the claim any more true. I'd like to see another PRIMARY source on this one before I make a judgement. Right now, I'm pretty skeptical.
Iraq Interior Ministry Says Report on Nukes 'Stupid'
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Interior Ministry dismissed as "stupid" a report in a local newspaper on Wednesday that said three nuclear missiles had been found near the town of Tikrit.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5731553
With each passing hour with no cooroboration, this becomes less likely to be real.
For some reason, I believe the Bush Whitehouse would be SCREAMING this from the rooftops if it was valid.
Just a guess.......
It will take days or weeks to confirm or disprove this. Sounds like some captured guy puffing his portfolio.
This could be interesting.
Where has this story been debunked? As far as I can tell, it simply hasn't been verified.
Enemy disinformation designed to return the media spotlight to the No WMDs found mantra once disproven.
Time will tell, or not. hopeful.
"It will take days or weeks to confirm or disprove this. Sounds like some captured guy puffing his portfolio."
Hmmmmm. Nope, I still think if it was valid, the President would be shouting it from the rooftops, as would Tony Blair.
Not to mention the RNC.
I really doubt the nuclear weapons story, but if the ~18 feet of concrete is true, something is going on.
This was discovered by Iraqis. Everyone has been burned a number of times. No announcement will be made until they know what it is, as well as what it isn't.
they probably had "made in france" on them so now everyone knows they were duds
Or not.
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