Marines hold nuclear site

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

[Ditto]

SOUTH OF BAGHDAD

[lonevoice]

From the Yahoo link, buried towards the end of the article is this paragraph:

About 18 miles south of Baghdad, at Al-Tuwaitha, U.S. Marines were guarding a vast nuclear facility that had belonged to the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported Wednesday that Marines had located an underground complex at Al-Tuwaitha that included warehouses and bombproof offices. The newspaper also reported that high levels of radiation were detected in several buildings at Al-Tuwaitha.

The site had been examined numerous times by U.N. weapons inspectors, but they reported no evidence of weapons of mass destruction.

Interesting that AP is merely citing the Pittsburgh Tribune article. Is there no confirmation for this story? What's up with Fox news??

[EternalVigilance]

BUMP!

[overtaxed_canadian]

"ElBaradai didn't miss it, he refused tgo go look at it when Tierney gave him directions to the sight! "

Really? Do you have a link to describe this? If this report is legit, it would totally discredit ElBaradai.

[Magnolia]

BTTT

[XJarhead]

It's possible that the inspectors actually did search this site, examined the stuff the Marines found, and concluded that it did not constitute an illegal weapons program. Just because radiation readings go off the chart does not mean its weapons-grade stuff.

My guess is this will require a lot more investigation before we can conclude that its evidence of an active nuke weapons program.

[texasbluebell]

ElBaradai didn't miss it, he refused tgo go look at it when Tierney gave him directions to the sight!

This must be what Tierney was talking about a few weeks ago on Fox! I saw him, he said SH had 9 nuclear weapons at a facility near Baghdad.

And he did say that he called El Baradai who refused to do anything about it.

[MHGinTN]

The French members of ElBaradai's team assured him that the water table the French engineers ran into would not allow a viable program to be constructed there. The Iraqis did a number on the underground system of drainage and went to work. There is also a test site where an atomic device was detonated in a cave system then concreted closed. When that site is inspected and the radiation levels revealed, ElBaradai will be as employable as month-old noodles.

[FairOpinion]

I just sent FoxNews a copy of the article and asked them why they aren't covering it.

This should be Front Page news. Obviously the author of the article seems to have checked, has quotes from several scientists and so on.

[Ditto]

Just because radiation readings go off the chart does not mean its weapons-grade stuff.

Possibly, if they are very sloppy people. But if they were running a legit program such as making colbalt sources for medical or industrial imaging purposes, the area would be a lot cleaner. If they were reprocessing spent fuel for Pu extraction, they would generate lots of very high level byproducts that would send readings "off the chart".

[texasbluebell]

When that site is inspected and the radiation levels revealed, ElBaradai will be as employable as month-old noodles.

I hope he and Blix, Chirac and Schroder all join Scott Ritter in the Hall of Shame.

Shame on them all.

[dirtboy]

Why the hell aren't the major networks talking about this or sending in reporters?????

What on earth makes you believe that the major networks want this information to see the light of day?

[Magnolia]

just sent FoxNews a copy of the article and asked them why they aren't covering it.

Did you send it to O'Reilly, Hannity & Greta?

[HenryLeeII]

Uhhh, gee, maybe Hussein really wasn't complying with the U.N. But he was forced to develop WMD because of Republican aggression, yeah, that's it...

[steveegg]

BTTT

[FairOpinion]

"Did you send it to O'Reilly, Hannity & Greta?"

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NO. I figured their news section should pick it up, but feel free, maybe someone will pick it up.

[Trident/Delta]

Hey over at Du they are sayng that this is a fraud. Dontchaknow the engineers came in pumped out all the water excavated the tunnels and brought in all the radioactive materials to "trump-up" charges of nuclear development....

Semper Delerious

[norcalvet]

LOL!

[norcalvet]

I think a key point here is that the weapons inspectors don't appear to have even known about the vast underground side of this facility. So they did search the site, but only above ground. Naturally, this was very convenient for the Iraqis.

[MikeD]

bump for later

[Robert A Cook PE]

OH SHIITE!

That much radiation, that much radioactive water, underground in unprotected DRUMS! ......

Can you smell "hot" (radiated, laden with plutonium!) fuel rods for reprocessing, and post-processing wastes...

They've got to be careful.

This is a no-shitter.

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Remember: Only Conservative Republican Presidents harm to the nvironment; murdering dictators are completly innocent.