Marines hold nuclear site

Pittsburgh Tribune Review ^ | Wednesday, April 9, 2003 | Carl Prine

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SOUTH OF BAGHDAD — In a valley sculpted by man, between the palms and roses, lies a vast marble and steel city known as Al-Tuwaitha.

In the suburbs about 18 miles south of the capital's suburbs, this city comprises nearly 100 buildings — workshops, laboratories, cooling towers, nuclear reactors, libraries and barracks — that belong to the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission.

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Paging Michael Moore --- please pick up the glowing red phone.

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[2timothy3.16]

hello Hans, you missed this, hanssss, hansssssssss, where are you hans?

[Steven W.]

Actually this is Mohammed "Moron" ElBardei's fools that missed this!

[Gefreiter]

First, I hope the Marines were issued the M99A2 Lead-Lined jockstrap before entering this place. Sheesh!

Second, tell me again why Iraq, with #2 oil reserves on the planet, needs a nuclear reactor?

[denydenydeny]

The name we are all looking for is Mohamed ElBaradei.

Nuclear chief: No 'smoking gun' in Iraq

[AD from SpringBay]

I nominate the French to store all Iraqi nuclear waste.

[Grampa Dave]

If this true, we should round up all of those who have backed the regime of Soddomite from DC (Rats in Congress to the West Coast, Michael Moore and the violent protestors).

Then, we can send them to this hell on earth to decontaminate the area. Scott Ritter, Michael Moore, the Follywood maggots, the Da$$hole and Kerry should be the first on this one way trip!

[SirAllen]

BIG BUMP!

Why isn't anyone else reporting this?

[Question_Assumptions]

I hope those guys are properly protected. That sounds like very nasty levels of radiation in there.

The question will be, "How close was Saddam to a nuke?" If the answer is, "A few months," then we should go slap Chirac and the "more inspections" loonies silly.

[KansasConservative1]

"On a mantle, folded under documents, a Christmas card never sent. On the front is a dove, its wings the ellipses of the atom, tinged in orange, yellow and green. Under it, a tiger, facing backward, its body a swirl of Arabic letters. Inside the card: "Rights of Third World Peoples To Alternate Energy Sources For the Future Development of Their Environment and Culture."

The next page: "Let Us Hope This New Year Will Be a Year of Peace and Justice and With All Good Wishes for Christmas and the New Year." Signed, Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission. Baghdad.
"

Can someone explain all the references to Christmas. These people don't celebrate Christmas. Thoughts?

[IncPen]

ping

[Chancellor Palpatine]

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[scoopscandal]

bump for after shower reading...

[CheneyChick]

My word........!

[John H K]

Eh, Christmas as a secular holiday has become pretty omnipresent all over the world. The Japanese are huge on Christmas.

[Poohbah]

Sounds like this site glows in the dark...

[kidd]

They may have purposely let a reactor failure, making the site difficult to impossible to inspect.

Lucy - someone has a lotta 'splainin' to do!

[Poohbah]

The Japanese are huge on Christmas.

I thought they were hugh on Christmas, and VEY SERIES!!!!!! about it.

[ffusco]

a thank you card for chiraq

[Prince Charles]

So far, Marine nuclear and intelligence experts have discovered 14 buildings that betray high levels of radiation. Some of the readings show nuclear residue too deadly for human occupation.

Ignorance is Blix.

[AFreeBird]

Woa... nice catch there guys.

Paging Hans Blix, paging Hans Blix.. the U.S. Marines want to show you something. Bring your glasses... oh, and a great big crow for dinner.

[blackdog]

It could be reported that every evil, twisted, murderous, torturing, mass destructing, germ weaponized, nerve gas spraying device is discovered in Iraq and liberals won't care.

None of those things can match the evil that is George Bush.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

bumping FYI

[k2blader]

Bump!

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

It was for all the French scientists that were working there.

[katana]

This isn't a smoking gun. It's a smoking howitzer.

[WillVoteForFood]

Said Mohammed El Baradei, "Look, we long have been aware of the high levels of radiation emanating from this site, but the Iraqi government assured us this is nothing more than the result of placing an aluminum foil packaged Hungry Man Salisbury Steak dinner into a microwave. The Iraqis showed us the charred remains of the dinner, so we are satisfied this issue is closed."

[EternalVigilance]

This one needs to be BUMPED to high heaven!

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Holy crap!

[LurkedLongEnough]

Yahoo is preventing people from looking at a set of photos from February 2003.

U.N. weapons inspectors, left, and members of the Iraqi National Monitoring Directorate, investigate storage facilities at Al-Tuwaitha, the main site

(Associated Press photographs)

Use the link above or use Google to Web search on "Al-Tuwaitha 2003" and you will see a slew of UN inspector pics with captions like this. When you use Google, you have to look at the "cached" copy because they are supressing the copy normally accessible through the links. I put a direct link to the cached page above.

[ushr435]

SMOKING GUN!!!

Or maybe I should say -
GLOWING GUN!!

[Spruce]

Just as the name Shemp can be used as a term of disappointment, as in "I got Shemped!". I think the name Blix could be used as a synonym for incompetence.

[doug from upland]

Is this the complex that the former weapons inspector was describing on the Coast to Coast show about three or four weeks ago? Bill Tierney, right?

[Centurion2000]

bump

[doug from upland]

BILL TIERNEY TALKED ABOUT THIS ON HANNITY'S RADIO SHOW

[John H K]

So the Marine's discovery makes the former atomic inspector wonder if the Iraqis went to the colossal expense of pumping enough water to build the underground city because no reasonable inspector would think anything might be built underground there.

The one thing the Iraqis are known to be good at is graduating a lot of good civil engineers and building stuff(of course, much of that wasted building palaces and such.) Not implausible they pulled it off themselves.

[Kadric]

Iraq has a sizable Christian population.

[Pete'sWife]

Let's say it loud... all together:

THE U.N. IS A JOKE.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

I believe we'll see a lot of news about this type of stuff now that the regime has fallen. Pray for the Marines exposed to this stuff!!

[Steven W.]

I believe you're right Doug and was just the same recollection I had and mentioned to some folks but couldn't recall his name.

[Tatze]

Why wouldnt this be on the national wires yet? Nothing on an AP search, or Drudge, etc.. This is huge!

[Steven W.]

The press has done and will continue to do all they can to hide the truth as they always have.

[Ditto]

Why wouldnt this be on the national wires yet? Nothing on an AP search, or Drudge, etc...

Got me. Every drum of pesticide makes national news. It could be they haven't spotted this story yet. The writer, Carl Prine, is with the Trib, not a news service. He is embedded with the Marines. Maybe the mainstream doesn't want to pick up a story from the Trib --- ground zero of the VRWC. ;~))

[TigersEye]

BUMPBUMPBUMPBUMP

[dvan]

Let's everyone email this to our TV, Radio and Newspapers. I already contacted Foxnews.com.. The more the merrier. Let them scoop the others!

[hchutch]

BINGO!

[whadizit]

Probably the same reason that the "children's" prison in N. Iraq has not appeared. It would not suit the needs of the anti-Americans.

[techcor]

Never forget that "laser isotope seperation" is a technique using a laser to purify elements including nuclear ones. Iraq was being allowed to develop this right under everyone's (including Blix) nose.

[zeugma]

Bump for later