Posted on 10/26/2004 12:31:01 PM PDT by Prince Charles
Copyright 2003 Valley Daily Bulletin
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA)
April 4, 2003 Friday
LENGTH: 813 words
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Troops encounter unknown chemical items
As the military advances closer to Baghdad, signs of Iraqichemical preparedness are multiplying, although there is still no conclusive evidence Saddam Hussein's regime possesses weapons of mass destruction.
On Friday, troops at a training facility in the westernIraqi desert came across a bottle labeled "tabun" a nerve gas and chemical weapon Iraq is banned from possessing.
Closer to Baghdad, troops at Iraq's largest militaryindustrial complex found nerve agent antidotes, documents describing chemical warfare and a white powder that appeared to be used for explosives.
Col. John Peabody, engineer brigade commander of the 3rdInfantry Division, said troops found thousands of 2-by-5-inch boxes, each containing three vials of white powder, together with documents written in Arabic that dealt with how to engage in chemical warfare.
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Multiple other reports state that the seals on the bunkers containing the high explosives were still in place at the time of this inspection. In other words, this article doesn't establish that the explosives weren't there in March 2003, and various others say they were.
Send this to Hannity.
Fox just reported a Reuters reporter was embedded with the 101st also.
Don't know, I got it by searching the Nexis database. Their web site is here:
http://www.dailybulletin.com/
It appears they have a fee-based archive search.
SEND IT TO DRUDGE.. SEND IT TO SEAN.. SEND IT TO THE RNC.. SEND IT TO FOX..
Send this to everybody people.
EXCELLENT research- just emailed this link to the RNC, GOP etc...
Just emailed NRO's corner.
http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/corner.asp
Bingo!!!!
For those interested, here's the entire article; it includes summaries of other stories (which I redacted) in the excerpt for this post.
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Copyright 2003 Valley Daily Bulletin
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA)
April 4, 2003 Friday
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HEADLINE: First American journalist killed 2-deck hed two lines
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KUWAIT CITY An American journalist was killed Thursday night when the Humvee he was traveling in rolled into a canal just south of the Baghdad airport.
The soldier driving the Humvee was also killed.
The journalist, Michael Kelly, 46, was the editor at largeof The Atlantic Monthly and a columnist for The Washington Post.
He was the first American journalist killed in the war.
Kelly had also worked at The New Republic and NationalJournal, and he covered the 1992 presidential campaign for The New York Times.
While Kelly was the first American journalist to die in theconflict, he is the fifth journalist to die since the war started 17 days ago. . Two others are missing.
Kelly, one of 600 reporters traveling with coalition forces,was with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division when the Humvee came under fire from Iraqi infantry armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades, said Col. William F. Grimsley. The driver of the Humvee, who has not been identified, was trying to evade fire when the vehicle rolled into the canal, Grimsley said.
@hUB:
Soldier charged with murder in grenadeattack
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. A soldier suspected in agrenade attack at a U.S. camp in Kuwait that killed two officers has been charged with murder, the military announced Friday.
The charges against Sgt. Hasan K. Akbar, 32, were filed twodays after the March 23 incident at a 101st Airborne Division camp in Kuwait. They were disclosed in a statement from Fort Campbell, home of the 101st.
Akbar, who once lived in Moreno Valley, is the only personcharged in the attack at the command center of the 101st Division's 1st Brigade at Camp Pennsylvania. Fourteen soldiers were wounded. Days later, the 1st Brigade began moving into Iraq.
Akbar is being held at an undisclosed U.S. militaryfacility. Military lawyers assigned to represent Akbar had no comment, the military's statement said.
Dennis Olgin, a retired judge advocate general's corpsofficer, said the charges carry the death penalty.
@hUB:
Troops encounterunknown chemical items
As the military advances closer to Baghdad, signs of Iraqichemical preparedness are multiplying, although there is still no conclusive evidence Saddam Hussein's regime possesses weapons of mass destruction.
On Friday, troops at a training facility in the westernIraqi desert came across a bottle labeled "tabun" a nerve gas and chemical weapon Iraq is banned from possessing.
Closer to Baghdad, troops at Iraq's largest militaryindustrial complex found nerve agent antidotes, documents describing chemical warfare and a white powder that appeared to be used for explosives.
U.N. weapons inspectors went repeatedly to the vast al QaQaa complex most recently on March 8 but found nothing during spot visits to some of the 1,100 buildings at the site 25 miles south of Baghdad.
Col. John Peabody, engineer brigade commander of the 3rdInfantry Division, said troops found thousands of 2-by-5-inch boxes, each containing three vials of white powder, together with documents written in Arabic that dealt with how to engage in chemical warfare.
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Iraqi TV report on suicideattack to U.S forces CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar Iraqi television on Friday broadcast statements by two Iraqi women it said blew themselves up in an attack on U.S. forces, apparently in a blast that killed three American soldiers in western Iraq.
U.S. military officials said Friday that one of the womenwas pregnant; they said it was impossible to know if she voluntarily took part in the attack.
The attack happened Thursday night about 10 miles southwestof the Haditha Dam when a car exploded at a U.S. checkpoint. The site is northwest of Baghdad and about 80 miles east of the Syrian border.
The Pentagon said the three soldiers killed were members ofthe 3rd Battalion of the 75th Ranger Regiment, based at Fort Benning, Ga.
"A pregnant female stepped out of the vehicle and beganscreaming in fear," a U.S. Central Command statement said. "At this point the civilian vehicle exploded, killing three coalition force members who were approaching the vehicle and wounding two others." The statement said the woman and the driver also were killed.
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Bush, Blair to meet inNorthern Ireland
WASHINGTON President Bush and wartime ally TonyBlair will meet next week in Northern Ireland to review final-stage battle plans as well as Bush's hotly debated blueprint for postwar reconstruction.
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern will join the leaders inBelfast for meetings Tuesday that also will address efforts to bring peace to Northern Ireland and the Middle East.
Iraq will dominate their session. The leaders will get jointupdates on battle plans and achievements, and will discuss thorny issues such as the pace of deliveries of humanitarian aid to Iraqi civilians and plans for the country's postwar reconstruction.
LOAD-DATE: October 29, 2003
U.N. weapons inspectors went repeatedly to the vast al QaQaa complex most recently on March 8 but found nothing during spot visits to some of the 1,100 buildings at the site 25 miles south of Baghdad.
From the context, it appears this is referencing just chem weapons and WMDs.
Was the HMD stuff not there or was it? Did it not even merit a mention? Seems no media people gave a crap about this stuff til they decided it could get Kerry elected.
well, 380 tons can do quite a bit of mass destructioning
Along with how many other sites at which Saddam stored weapons -- perhaps even weapons of mass destruction?
Our intelligence wasn't flawed. Kerry and his ilk worked very hard to give saddam plenty of time to empty his warehouses before we invaded.
You're right. THE NYT TIMES IS A WHORE FOR THE UN!!!!!!!!
Let's hear it for Lexus-Nexus!!! Woo! HOO! I am laughing my head off!!!
LET FREEDOM RING!!!
JENNY HATCH
www.NaturalFamilyCo.com
Well, to me, the article implies that the inspectors were looking for chemicals that could be used for explosives, ergo you would think that they would have noted the stockpiles which sKerry says were there.
Got through to the Slimes. Asked the following question verbatim: “Are you going to retract the bogus missing ammunition story?” They read a statement saying they’re standing by their story because the letter says what it says, and it doesn’t matter if the substance of the story is true. I stated repeatedly that the substance wasn’t true, and she just kept reading until the end of the statement then hung up.
Allies Find Signs of Iraq's Chemical Preparedness [but UN found "NOTHING" at Al Qa Qaa in April 2003
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