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Army Corps Finds New WWI Chemical Site In DC Yard
AP via Yahoo News ^
| 16 April 2010
| Brett Zongker
Posted on 04/16/2010 6:24:04 AM PDT by edpc
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has uncovered what could be a fourth major disposal area for World War I-era munitions and chemical weapons in the nation's capital.
Digging was suspended April 8 as a precaution at the site in the pricey Spring Valley neighborhood near American University after workers pulled smoking glassware from the pit, project manager Dan Noble said Thursday.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: dc; wmd; wwi
What's the big deal? Recovered WMDs in Iraq were pre-1991 Gulf War munitions and were considered too "degraded" to be a threat. These are 100 years old.
Nothing to see, here......
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posted on
04/16/2010 6:24:05 AM PDT
by
edpc
To: edpc
The locals refer to the subdivision as "Death Valley"
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
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posted on
04/16/2010 6:28:48 AM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN '69 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle!)
To: edpc
Finding WMD appears to take longer than expected.
To: edpc
after workers pulled smoking glassware from the pit,
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posted on
04/16/2010 6:30:43 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
To: edpc
One of these days they’re going to find the chrononauts from the early 60s in suspended animation.
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posted on
04/16/2010 6:30:45 AM PDT
by
rbg81
(DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
To: Lazamataz
ROFLMAO!!!!!!..................
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posted on
04/16/2010 6:33:25 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
To: rbg81
One of these days they’re going to find the chrononauts from the early 60s in suspended animation.
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posted on
04/16/2010 6:34:24 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
To: ConorMacNessa
As a former MD resident, I can tell you there are places around the Edgewood Arsenal where you don’t want to live.
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posted on
04/16/2010 6:37:25 AM PDT
by
edpc
(Those Lefties just ain't right)
To: edpc
As a present resident of the People's Republic of Maryland I heartily concur!
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
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posted on
04/16/2010 6:39:04 AM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN '69 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle!)
To: edpc; All
Very interesting- we had a picric acid plant here from WWI, and while the official word was it was strictly for explosives, the rumormill always had it that they produced supposedly forbidden chemical agents, too. FYI, FWIW.
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posted on
04/16/2010 6:50:46 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into America's Twilight...)
To: edpc
Army Corps Finds New WWI Chemical Site In DC Yard If 0kaka reads this headline he'll be we weed up. How can a "corpse" find anything?
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