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Armed missiles found in Baghdad
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| 4/12/03
Posted on 04/12/2003 2:55:26 PM PDT by knak
Baghdad - Around 30 fully armed Iraqi missiles have been found in a vacant lot near a shopping center in northern Iraq, an AFP photographer said on Friday.
The sandy-yellow coloured missiles, 10m long and a metre in diameter, carried inscriptions in a cyrillic alphabet on their fuselages. They were loaded on 15 trailers that carried no licence plates.
Witnesses said the trailers were abandoned at the site several days ago by men in civilian clothes.
Looters who were busy on the edges of the lot, which was surrounded by houses under construction, stayed well away, shouting to journalists: "Boom, boom. Kamikazes!" - Sapa-AFP
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: embeddedreport; illegalweapons; missiles
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posted on
04/12/2003 2:55:26 PM PDT
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knak
To: knak
The sandy-yellow coloured missiles, 10m long and a metre in diameter, carried inscriptions in a cyrillic alphabet on their fuselages. Just to clarify, they mean Russian writing.
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posted on
04/12/2003 3:10:37 PM PDT
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To: knak
Ten meters long, eh?
Ribbit...Ribbit!
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posted on
04/12/2003 3:33:18 PM PDT
by
Redleg Duke
(Stir the pot...don't let anything settle to the bottom where the lawyers can feed off of it!)
To: knak
inscriptions in a cyrillic alphabet
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posted on
04/12/2003 3:48:59 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(Socialism is slavery.)
To: knak
Looters ... stayed well away, shouting to journalists: "Boom, boom. Kamikazes!" Kamikazes??? Doesn't that mean suicde? Like the kind of missle that might come back down in your own marketplace??? Or unstable???
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posted on
04/12/2003 4:24:11 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
(Note left on my door by a pack of neighborhood dogs.)
To: Redleg Duke
Blix says they only have a range of 50 km. The large dia is to support the pilot guidance module, hence the kamikazi reference.
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posted on
04/12/2003 7:31:07 PM PDT
by
snooker
To: knak
They were loaded on 15 trailers that carried no licence plates.Oh my - no proof that the ROAD TAXES hadn't been paid!!??
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posted on
04/12/2003 7:35:46 PM PDT
by
_Jim
( // NASA has a better safety record than NASCAR \\)
To: knak
SAM 2s?
To: knak
Ah! The plates just fell off. Here's one of them:
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posted on
04/12/2003 7:42:41 PM PDT
by
LRS
To: _Jim
They were loaded on 15 trailers that carried no licence plates.Oh my - no proof that the ROAD TAXES hadn't been paid!!??
Scofflaws!
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