EXCLUSIVE: US TROOPS CAPTURE CHEMICAL PLANT

The Jerusalem Post ^ | 3/23/2003 | Caroline B. Glick

[FreedomPoster]

(17:35) The Jerusalem Post's Caroline B. Glick, on the road to Baghdad with the US 3rd Infantry, reports it has captured what could be the first chemical weapons plant uncovered since the onset of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

[rintense]

Good news!

[concerned about politics]

I'm sure we'll fnd much more once this is over. Most of it is underground, no doubt.
Iraq kicked the inspectors out in 1998, and no one did anything about it. They've had all that time to bury or build underground bunkers.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the ping!

I got so many messages coming in I can't get to all of them!

The Free Republic servers have got to be smoking with all of this traffic!

[Nita Nuprez]

. . . but Paula Zahn is such a QT . . .

So is Sean Penn. Your point? lol!

[Clive]

"That said, we must wait to find out just what chemicals were being made."

Easily done. Ship a drum to New York and ask M. Blix and M. Chirac to come take a sniff and a taste.

Then make gift packages (perhaps in atomizer bottles) for the Security Council and the Secretary General.

Don't forget to send some to Ottawa.

[Tunehead54]

Or it's a baby milk factory.

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Maybe Hans Blix is available as a "taster" now that his job at the UN is history? ;)

[CedarDave]

"That said, we must wait to find out just what chemicals were being made."
Easily done. Ship a drum to New York and ask M. Blix and M. Chirac to come take a sniff and a taste. Then make gift packages (perhaps in atomizer bottles) for the Security Council and the Secretary General. Don't forget to send some to Ottawa.

LOL.
(Sadly, this is only post I can do this with this morning)

[areafiftyone]

Would you believe the peaceniks actually think the U.S. planted the factory there? Where are these people getting their brain cells from?

[Walkin Man]

PAGING HANS BLIX! (liar!)

[Sabertooth]

Big time good news. Keep your eyes open for reports of stockpiles of colloidal silicon dioxide at this plant.

Check this out...

U.N. allowed Iraqi purchase of agent usable for weapons
			Posted by kattracks On 11/06/2002 12:10 AM PST with 12 comments Washington Times ^ | 11/06/02 | Bill Gertz The United Nations overruled U.S. government objections and allowed Iraq to buy a specialty chemical that U.S. intelligence officials say will boost Baghdad's chemical and biological warfare agents. Top Stories • GOP regains control of Senate• Democrats can't avenge 2000 result• Vote watchers get wish but not results• Sharon dissolves parliament      A large quantity of a chemical known as colloidal silicon dioxide was ordered by the Iraqis in August 2001 and held up by the U.S. government because of concerns about its use.     However, the United Nations approved the sale and it was shipped to Iraq last month, said Hasmik Egin, a U.N. spokeswoman.     Colloidal silicon...
Iraq takes delivery of powder used in chemical arms
			Posted by kattracks On 11/17/2002 10:52 PM PST with 35 comments Washington Times ^ | 11/18/02 | AP ASSOCIATED PRESS     Iraqi scientists know how to make chemical weapons that can penetrate military protective clothing, and Iraq imported up to 25 metric tons last month of a powder that is a crucial ingredient to such "dusty" weapons.     Iraq told the United Nations the powder was destined for a pharmaceutical company. A former weapons inspector says that company was ordered by President Saddam Hussein before the 1991 Persian Gulf war to work on chemical and biological weapons.     The powder, sold under the brand name Aerosil, has particles so small that, when coated with deadly poisons, they can pass through the tiniest gaps in...
Iraq can make chemical weapons that penetrate U.S. protective gear
			Posted by RCW2001 On 11/17/2002 2:48 PM PST with 18 comments Associated Press ^ Published Nov. 17, 2002 ARMR18 WASHINGTON - Iraqi scientists know how to make chemical weapons that can penetrate military protective clothing, and Iraq imported up to 25 metric tons last month of a powder that is a crucial ingredient to such ``dusty'' weapons.Iraq told the United Nations the powder was destined for a pharmaceutical company that a former weapons inspector says was ordered by President Saddam Hussein before the 1991 Persian Gulf War to work on chemical and biological weapons.The powder, sold under the brand name Aerosil, has particles so small that, when coated with deadly poisons, can pass...

Colloidal silicon dioxide is also useful in creating bioweapons. In fact, it was used in the weaponization of the anthrax in the Daschle and Leahy letters. Lots of good articles at the red link above.

[cake_crumb]

Thanks for the text. We can all USE some good news right about now.

[areafiftyone]

This has been a horrible morning! I wish they would show this on the cable news networks!

[ChadGore]

This is serious !

[joesnuffy]

Somebody ought to find Hans Blix and his seeing eye dog and stripped cane and show him this 100 acre facility his UN inspectors overlooked

[thescourged1]

Or for it to be camoflagued(sp?)from aerial observation.

[SierraWasp]

Yes... I wish we could get this further confirmed by at least one other reliable source. Of course, that's wishful thinking when one considers our own lopsided, lazy media types!!!

[Conservative4Ever]

Big bump for the truth.

[MeekOneGOP]

EXCLUSIVE: US TROOPS CAPTURE CHEMICAL PLANT

Excerpt:

About 30 Iraqi troops, including a general, surrendered today to US forces of the 3rd Infantry Division as they overtook huge installation apparently used to produce chemical weapons in An Najaf, some 250 kilometers south of Baghdad.

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