Exclusive: U.S. Finds Radioactive Missiles in Iraq

NewsMax ^ | 3/9/04 | Charles R. Smith

[RightWhale]

Not a dirty bomb. More like a nail bomb.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"Dan Rather? Tom Brokaw? Chris Matthews? Aaron Brown? Where are you?"

I don't see anything on FOX either.

[Frank_Discussion]

!!

[Old Sarge]

Not good enough to be the smoking gun.

There was no signed/notarized confession in Saddam's hand-o-write.

There were no CNN war sluts on the scene when the munitions were manufactured.

Besides, THEY say - and you all know what THEY say - that WE put those hot missiles there, from our own stockpiles.

Moreover, it's all GWB's Fault!

[Spunky]

"Dan Rather? Tom Brokaw? Chris Matthews? Aaron Brown? Where are you?"

THERE WITH THEIR

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Russian-made AA-8 Aphid air-to-air missiles

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Thanks for the ping!
Another story the big 5 liberal media won't carry.

[BlueNgold]

Well well well .. the search for the smoking gun has turned up the 'glowing gun'.

Wasn't Sen. Highball .. oops I mean Kennedy ... actually mocking VP Cheney this weekend for suggesting that the weapons search was as yet incomplete? Go get em Dick!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Ummm, its not a WMD...its an air to air missle. How would this be a smoking gun?

What exactly is a WMD? If the missiles that Iraq had that they said they didn't have don't count, and the 2 tons of uranium that Iraq had that they said they didn't have don't count, and the nerve agents that Iraq had that they said they didn't have don't count and now the dirty bombs that Iraq had that they said they didn't have don't count, what could possiibly be evidence of WMD? A nuclear missile in a silo ready to launch?? How far are we going to let the left raise the bar?

I guess my feeling is that with all of this hardware and hazardous material laying around for us to pick up, what must have been in the convoys that left the country before we attacked???

[theDentist]

If they found a 5 lb bag of cyanide hidden in somebody's yard it wouldn't be a smoking gun either....

... of course, they did.

[BlueNgold]

Depleted Uranium Fragmentation warhead.
Gotta be careful with it, but it's not designed as a NBC weapon.

[Use It Or Lose It]

It looks like the "real thing"; it smells like the "real thing"; it KILLS like the "real thing."

[CatoRenasci]

Looks a whole lot like a "Sidewinder"

[pawdoggie]

One must always consider the source when dealing with "NewsMax". US Army magnetic lensatic compasses always had a "radiation" warning on the back (i.e. "don't remove the back cover") since they contained a small amount of radioactive material to illuminate the needle and the compass headings on the dial. If the nuclear material in these missiles was enriched or easily reprocessed, Saddam would have had his bomb ahead of schedule. Doubt that this was the case, however.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

At least we know you can't kill anyone with an airliner. /sarcasm ;)

[Soaring Feather]

bump

[optimistically_conservative]

How far are we going to let the left raise the bar?

LOL, HEU or plutonium tipped SCUD would do it.

The arms in the article were legal for Iraq to possess and they got them before the sanctions.

The bar is set at the unaccounted for BW and CW listed in UNSCOM's 1998 report as well as the mobile labs, aluminum tubes and UAVs that this administration added on.

[Mo1]

The discovery is not, however, considered the long-sought "smoking gun" of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

Maybe .. but I'm going take a guess and say that Saddam wasn't suppose to have them

[Fresh Wind]

The left has been upset for years over our use of depleted uranium ordnance during the first Gulf War, citing all sorts of environmental damage, and health risks to anyone in the area. Now, it seems that Saddam had similar weapons and may have used them in that war. Somehow, I have the feeling that all the blame will forever be pointed directly at the US, and not one word will ever be uttered against Saddam.

[concerned about politics]

Got this in an e-mail today complete with pictures, but I can't move the pictures from the e-mail file --

Maybe you heard about it, now you can see it!

MIG Buried in the Sand

This was send to us from a friend that is over fighting for us.

It makes you wonder what else is buried out there.

Photo courtesy of MSGT T. Collins, USAF

(photos I can't move to FR. Darn!)

The Iraqi jet, an advanced Russian MiG-25 Foxbat, was found buried in the sand after an informant tipped off U.S. troops.

The MiG was dug out of a massive sand dune near the Al Taqqadum airfield by U.S. Air Force recovery teams. The MiG was reportedly one of over two dozen Iraqi jets buried in the sand, like hidden treasure, waiting to be recovered at a later date.

Contrary to what some in the major media have reported, not all the jets found were from the Gulf War era.

The Russian-made MiG-25 Foxbat being recovered by U.S. Air Force troops in the photos is an advanced reconnaissance version never before seen in the West and is equipped with sophisticated electronic warfare devices.

U.S. Air Force recovery teams had to use large earth-moving equipment to uncover the MiG, which is over 70 feet long and weighs nearly 25 tons.

The Foxbat is known to be one of Iraq's top jet fighters. The advanced electronic reconnaissance version found by the U.S. Air Force is currently in service with the Russian air force. The MiG is capable of flying at speeds of over 2,000 miles an hour, or three times the speed of sound, and at altitudes of over 75,000 feet.

The recovery of the advanced MiG fighter is considered to be an intelligence coup by the U.S. Air Force.. The Foxbat may also be equipped with advanced Russian- and French-made electronics that were sold to Iraq during the 1990s in violation of a U..N. ban on arms sales to Baghdad.

The buried aircraft at Al Taqqadum were covered in camouflage netting, sealed and, in many cases, had their wings removed before being buried more than 10 feet beneath the Iraqi desert.

X Marks the Spot

The discovery of the buried Iraqi jet fighters illustrates the problem faced by U.S. inspection teams searching Iraq for weapons of mass destruction. Iraq is larger in size than California, and the massive deserts south and west of Baghdad were used by Saddam Hussein to hide weapons during the first Gulf war.

U.S. intelligence sources have already uncovered several mass grave burial sites in the open deserts with an estimated 10,000 dead hidden there. In addition, Iraq previously hid SCUD missiles, chemical weapons and biological warheads by burying them under the desert sand.

U.N. inspection teams found the weapons in the early 1990s after detailed information of the exact locations was obtained.

Top U.S. weapons inspector Dr. David Kay is known to favor human intelligence as the primary means to find Iraq's hidden treasure trove of weapons and secrets.

While there are rumors of Iraqi chemical and biological weapons being shipped to nearby Syria, the weapons may very well still remain inside Iraq buried under the vast desert wastelands.