US Seals off 36 Suspicious Iraqi Bunkers [Will be Opened w/ Media Present]

Associated Press ^ | March 25, 2003 | wire staff

[paws_and_whiskers]

US forces sealed off 36 bunkers earmarked as potential sites of weapons of mass destruction at an Iraqi air base outside of An Nasiriyah, military police said.

The treasure chest of Saddam goodies we've been looking for....?

[Centurion2000]

Geraldo will probably look inside .....

"What's all this stuff marked Zyklon-B for ??"

[Paleo Conservative]

Finally Geraldo has something up his alley

This really should embarrass the UN if Geraldo can documnet WMD sites Hans Blix couldn't find.

[OperationFreedom]

Guess again. There is no fact to obvious for these creeps to deny it. They could watch Saddam shoot an American with a rifle and they would deny he had a weapon if it fit their agenda.

[Doomonyou]

Think Dan Ratherbiased could score another interview with Saddam?

Saddam sleeps with the fishes.

[Beck_isright]

Geraldo opens dangerous stuff bump!

V

[Bogey78O]

There's a German vacuum called the Zyclon. I believe it took some heat for using the German word for Cyclone.

[Roy Tucker]

Maybe there is a curse, like King Tut's tomb, on anybody who opens them. Geraldo, by my guest.

[Riley]

Think Dan Ratherbiased could score another interview with Saddam?

"Saddam, ole buddy! Hows the abdomen?"

"Gurgle-gurgle-akkghhhr!"

"Oh sorry. Shouldn't have brought that up. How's the wife and kids?"

[Torie]

The news report is being hyped, which is as per usual.

[Oorang]

Some of the bunkers, which were to be opened later with news media present, had been looted.

This makes no sense. If they are to be opened later with the media present, how do they know they were looted? What am I missing here?

[jwalsh07]

I gotta admit, I'm getting nervous as they collapse the bad guys toward Baghdad.

I know it's been a long time but there was always that percentage of otherwise stalwart guys who panicked in the CS chamber.

[Torie]

I am also worried as hell as to how we are going to root the core of the cancer out of Bagdad, almost all of whom will be surrounded by human shields.

[Illbay]

No. But Miss Cleo might.

[Yardstick]

This really should embarrass the UN if Geraldo can documnet WMD sites Hans Blix couldn't find.

No doubt!

I can just see the forlorn look on Blix's face upon learning that Geraldo Rivera found WMD's.

[blam]

Please post the whole article. The link does not work.

[jwalsh07]

Me too.

I just don't have a good enough feel for the Sunni's in Baghdad to offer an informed opinion on what's gonna happen there.

I'm hoping the majority capitulate and cooperate with our guys.

I told my sisters a month when it started, I'm starting to think I may have been pessimistic. You need a calculator to keep up with the bad guy's casualties and word has to be spreading.

[Paradox]

From the netscape.com website, do a search on "bunkers":

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U.S. Forces Seal Off Suspicious Bunkers

AN NASIRIYAH, Iraq (AP) - U.S. forces sealed off 36 bunkers earmarked as potential sites of weapons of mass destructions at an Iraqi air base outside An Nasiriyah, military police said.

A U.S. Army infantry battalion also seized six vehicles loaded with weapons and ammunition at the base, killed two men and captured 11, officials said.

Some of the bunkers, which were to be opened later with news media present, had been looted.

The three trucks, one fuel truck, one taxi and one bus were seized Monday when one of them tried to speed into the air base, which is under the control of U.S. forces, said Capt. Jeff Searl of the 709th Military Police Battalion.

All of the captured and killed were wearing civilian clothes, and it was not clear why the vehicle was headed toward the base. The men appeared to be trying to get hold of weapons from different caches stored earlier.

``There seems to be plenty of weapons around - enough to cause concerns for the security of our troops,'' said Lt. Col. Richard Vanderlinden of Gladstone, Mich., commander of the MP battalion.

The unit is holding almost 250 prisoners of war, and MPs started putting up tents to protect them from sandstorms.

Two wounded POWs have died in the past two days, despite receiving medical care. They were buried and their personal details were recorded so their families will be able to claim the bodies.

A large prisoner camp for 8,000 people is being built closer to the Kuwaiti border.

[weegee]

"Saddam, ole buddy! Hows the abdomen?"

"Gurgle-gurgle-akkghhhr!"

Can we get a translator? I don't understand Farsi. ;^)