U.S. Forces Raid Iraq Chemical Facility

AP/Yahoo ^ | 8/13/05 | Unknown

[Coop]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces raided an insurgent facility that may have been producing an unspecified type of chemicals, the U.S. military said Saturday. It was unclear what was being produced or whether the materials were intended for weapons, the statement added.

U.S. troops, acting on a tip from detainees under interrogation, raided a "suspected insurgent chemical production facility" in northern Iraq last Tuesday, the statement said, without specifying the location.

However, the military cautioned that ongoing testing at the facility was "insufficient to determine what the insurgents had been producing."

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[Coop]

Zarqawi's old hangout?

[Peach]

This might be interesting....

[Coop]

Flag

[Gunrunner2]

No WMD here. . .move along now. . .move along. . .nothing to see. . .

[nuconvert]

thanx for the flag

[darkwing104]

Interesting. Waiting to see the media's spin on this.

[oceanview]

MSNBC ran a report on this just now, with photos.

Remember that story from a year+ back about that plot in Jordan to set off a chemical weapon in Annan? That story went nowhere of course, quickly buried. The reporter on MSNBC said his sources believed this facility, and/or the people running it, is linked to that Annan attack that was thwarted.

[MizSterious]

Well, well, well...

[Coop]

Good info, thanks.

[Youngman442002]

Come on... the MSM said there are not any WMD's in Iraq...so just quit it please..

[livius]

Interesting! Good connection!

[SunTzuWu]

Posted here.

[Coop]

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Coalition forces have found more than 1,500 gallons of various chemicals in what officials believe is an insurgent chemical production facility and storage sites, the U.S. military said Saturday.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/13/iraq.chemicals/

[Txsleuth]

Wouldn't that just be awesome to find out on the very day that Cindy Sheehan's new commercial calling Bush a LIAR about WMDs starts running?

[Coop]

[Brimack34]

The Left would say: There were no wmd's until we invaded Iraq.

[oceanview]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/13/iraq.chemicals/

[livius]

That is one ominous looking set-up. Any idea what it was designed to produce?

I sure hope this gets a lot of press coverage (doubt that it will, of course).

[Coop]

Any idea what it was designed to produce?

No. I'll wait for the experts to weigh in.

[Txsleuth]

Why was this pulled from the Breaking News site?

[Txsleuth]

Never mind...NOW it is back...sorry

[SunTzuWu]

Where is that pic from? Does it go with the article?

[ChadGore]

It will be interesting to see if this gets any play in the press.

[Coop]

I should have been more specific. It's a U.S. Navy photo, as credited. It's from the CNN site in post directly above the photo.

[livius]

Whatever, it was obviously not good. I wonder if Iran is involved in this, or if it's your basic Sunni Saddam-adherents?

[MizSterious]

Brian Wilson just said there's going to be a story on this on his show, starting now on Fox.

[SunTzuWu]

From my post on the other thread.

American troops invaded Iraq in March 2003 to destroy what President Bush said were Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.

Thats just not true. Nuclear weapons were the only thing NOT found. The MSM seems to have forgotten about the Bio and the Chem in the NucBioChem triad of WMD.

[Kath]

Don't hold your breath waiting for the press to cover it. You could turn so blue you will mistaken for a smurf.

[MizSterious]

You are absolutely correct. I used to have a fairly long listing of stories about the finds we did make--up to and including materials that were intended to be put together for nuclear WMDS. I'm not sure where it is right now, that was a couple years ago, but if anyone is interested, I can dig it up. Some of the links might be dead by now, however.

[Coop]

Thats just not true.

You're right. Some chemical weapons were found, but just in small amounts.

[Deetes]

BUMP BUMP

[MizSterious]

Fox is covering this very well right now. Said if mixed "as shown" that they would have left a "lingering effect" on the area!!

[CyberAnt]

BUT .... BUT .... BUT .... There's no WMD in Iraq !!!

ROTFLOL!!!!

Mark 4:22 - There is nothing covered which will not be seen openly and nothing has been made secret which will not come to light!!

Amen!

[Coop]

Interesting. Keep us posted!

[MizSterious]

At some point Fox will probably publish this information as a news story on their website--it's just now breaking, so it may take awhile. This looks significant.

[Stellar Dendrite]

"The Left would say: There were no wmd's until we invaded Iraq."

Yup. The lying socialist scum of the earth will do anything but display intellectual honesty

[Dr. Frank fan]

I'm pretty sure the factory was producing baby-milk.

[Coop]

I'm pretty sure the factory was producing baby-milk.

Naaaahh. If it were, we'd have sent in cruise missiles.

Oh wait, wrong administration.

[World'sGoneInsane]

Once we got into Iraq, all the liberals/anti-warists were asking "Where are the WMDs?" I posted something back then that the fact that they aren't there should be a greater concern. Sadaam used them, he produced, they are somewhere. I hope this is it. IMHO, as always, if they weren't/aren't there--they are somewhere.

If Yahoo news is posting this, you can bet that it's more than rumor.

[Coop]

No, it's definitely not a rumor. There's no question they raided a facility based on intelligence, and there are apparently a good amount of chemicals. We'll have to wait and see about who was using it, since when, etc.

[tiredoflaundry]

There's no stinking chemicals or WMD in Iraq! Cindy Sheehan told me so!!!!!! /sarc

[ChadGore]

bttt

[fhayek]

U.S. troops, acting on a tip from detainees under interrogation, raided a "suspected insurgent chemical production facility" in northern Iraq

I sure hope they didn't make the detainees put women's underwear on their heads to extract this information. That would be wrong.

[Rockitz]

As I recall they found an inordinate amount of insecticide which just happens to be a precursor used in the production of nerve agents. Of course, the MSM has selectively forgotten how to infer anything related to WMD.

[Stellar Dendrite]

This is Hugh!!!!!

[MEG33]

Having poisoned myself spraying insecticide under roof eves..I never hesitatated to thing about the insecticide chemicals as being very suspicious.

[adam_az]

It looks a LOT like a fermenter!


left:what was found in iraq, right: fermenter

[adam_az]

If it is a fermenter... either they're growing bacteria, or they're making moonshine.

[Seeking the truth]

Doesn't look like they adhere to GMP or GLP.

[adam_az]

Iraq A History of Biological Weapons Research - University of Texas - http://dpalm.uth.tmc.edu/faculty/bios/norris/BT2002_files/Iraq.htm


Seed Fermenter at al-Hakam, part of Salman Pak. Picture courtesy of the Monterey Institute for International Studies.