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Missiles find in chemical plant
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| GETHIN CHAMBERLAIN AND PAUL GALLAGHER
Posted on 03/25/2003 8:30:01 AM PST by conservativecorner
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To: conservativecorner
British officers say it is difficult to find an innocent explanation for storing missiles in a chemical plant. They obviously haven't interviewed Scott Ritter yet.
To: conservativecorner
British officers say it is difficult to find an innocent explanation for storing
missiles in a chemical plant.
G-d luv 'em.
These British officers just don't have the capacity for rationalization, duplicity,
and blindness of an Iraqi or UN official.
Well done with the find, good friends and allies.
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03/25/2003 9:39:54 AM PST
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VOA
To: conservativecorner
BTTT
To: Fiddlstix
bump and bookmark.
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03/25/2003 9:45:43 AM PST
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Dec31,1999
(PR is everything.)
To: The_Victor
Two possiblities...found the following in a search:
The warhead bay of the `Scud B' is 2.87 m long forming the nose section of the missile Source
2.87 m = 9.416 Ft., which would make it about the right length of the Scud in the article, if you deduct the warhead length. The following confirms that Iraq's Scud al-Husayn is equivalent to the Scud B and also mentions a shorter version, but no length was provided.
The first upgrade, called the al-Husayn had a range of 600-650 km, allowing strikes on Tehran. This rocket was modified through a reduction of the payload to approximately 300 to 350 kilograms. Some 11.20 meters in length and 0.90 meters in diameter, the Al Hussein corresponds more or less to the SCUD-B (length: 11.50 meters; diameter: 0.88 meters)...A variant of the Al Husayn was also produced, known as the Al Husayn Short. FAS
To: freedomlover
I was thinking the same thing.
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03/25/2003 9:54:13 AM PST
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Duckdog
To: The_Victor
From doing research I found that it could also be an Al-Sumud 2 missile which is described as a miniaturized Scud B. A
recent news story indicated that they were cooperating with the UN by destroying some of these this month, so they do have some still. No dimensions are given however, and a search for the dimensions was futile.
To: conservativecorner
British officers say it is difficult to find an innocent explanation for storing missiles in a chemical plant. To be fair, it is apparent that none of them have looked at the state of my "organization" of my garage shelves - which have all kinds of odd storage configurations.
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03/25/2003 10:56:28 AM PST
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Chancellor Palpatine
(Paleocons, the French and the UN - Excusing corrupt power mad dictators for decades)
To: ravingnutter
I found an unreferenced report that the Al Samoud 2 is 0.76m diameter, a much smaller missile. I was under the impression that the Al Samoud 2 was an artillery style surface-to-surface rather than a ballistic missile, but I don't recall the source of that "impression".
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