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Freeper exclusive: Weapons cache demolition causes many to be sick from exposure in Baghdad
private e-mails | 11/16/2006 | RaceBannon

Posted on 11/16/2006 4:54:12 PM PST by RaceBannon

I just received a private e-mail from someone I know from a Marine website who has family in Iraq. There has been a weapons cache explosion that caused many, hundreds of people to be exposed to some chemical that was present in the weapons.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bushlied; bushtried; chemicalweapons; chems; iraq; nbc; rehirerumsfeld; rumint; weaponscache; wmd
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To: justa-hairyape
Coat of Arms and Motto Link. The Motto is SUIVEZ MOI (Follow Me).

STRYKEHORSE Coat of Arms

301 posted on 11/16/2006 11:09:23 PM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: TexKat
Supposedly the 5th Squadron was going to be renamed the 2nd when it got back from Iraq.
302 posted on 11/16/2006 11:10:53 PM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: cgk

bump


303 posted on 11/16/2006 11:39:51 PM PST by tcrlaf (VOTE DEM! You'll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
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To: Enosh

They move the goalposts. First it was no WMD. Then it was no STOCKPILES of WMD.


304 posted on 11/16/2006 11:42:20 PM PST by PghBaldy (Reporter: Are you surprised? Nancy Pelosi: No. My eyes always look like this.)
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To: VaMarVet

Considering Carl Levin, next chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is not sure if Iran has a nuke program, it is VERY important and relevent to the war. Iraq is just one battle in a larger one. The "Bush Lied" lie has and will damage our efforts in dealing with the biggest threat now: IRAN.


305 posted on 11/16/2006 11:59:15 PM PST by PghBaldy (Reporter: Are you surprised? Nancy Pelosi: No. My eyes always look like this.)
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To: bitt

Thank you bitt.


306 posted on 11/17/2006 12:51:27 AM PST by Cindy
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To: RaceBannon

Has anyone heard of the local of this yet? I have a nephew in the green zone.


307 posted on 11/17/2006 2:06:14 AM PST by Earthdweller (All reality is based on faith in something.)
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To: Earthdweller

More to the point, has anyone established whether or not it's a hoax?

I've yet to see any corroboratory reports anywhere.


308 posted on 11/17/2006 2:25:16 AM PST by Canard
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To: GoLightly; Allegra

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1739974/posts?page=62#62

Here she is. Dang, Allegra, what in the world were you thinking, stepping away from the keyboard like that?! ; )
Glad to hear your voice. Add me to the worrywart pinglist : )


309 posted on 11/17/2006 3:00:17 AM PST by freema (Marine FRiend, 1stCuz2xRemoved, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: TexKat; jmc1969

Thanks. I thought this was a new incident because of the date on the webpage.


310 posted on 11/17/2006 3:04:34 AM PST by freema (Marine FRiend, 1stCuz2xRemoved, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: justa-hairyape

maybe not too early, it can take days to get time off to send a message hone, too!

Soldiers Detain Suspected Terrorists, Seize Weapons

Nov. 13, 2006 – Multinational Division Baghdad and Iraqi army soldiers detained seven suspected terrorists and seized two weapons caches in separate operations in and around Baghdad Nov. 11, military officials in Iraq reported. Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers detained four suspected terrorists and seized a weapons cache in one of the capital's western neighborhoods Nov. 11.

After witnessing suspicious activity, soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, searched four suspects. They found a rocket-propelled-grenade launcher, an RPG round, an AK-47, a heavy machine gun, three grenades, and two assault rifles with two 100-round belts of ammunition.

The suspects were detained for further questioning. An explosive ordnance disposal team later performed a controlled detonation of the weapons cache.

In another operation, Iraqi army and Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers seized a large weapons cache and detained three individuals in the Qa-Qaa apartment complex in Mahmudiyah, 30 kilometers south of Baghdad on Nov. 11.

Iraqi soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, teamed up with a U.S. advisory team from 2nd Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, and conducted a cordon-and-knock operation in the apartment complex.

Three 107 mm rockets, 24 82 mm mortar rounds, 17 60 mm mortar rounds, 19 60 mm mortar fuses, 100 mortar charges, two mortar tripods and aiming devices, a rocket-propelled-grenade launcher, an AK-47 assault rifle, an RPK medium machine gun, false identification cards, and four license plates were seized during the operation.

The most significant find in the cache was the discovery of 25 anti-armor improvised explosive device cover plates.

The operation was delayed briefly with the discovery of a car bomb parked near the apartment complex. An explosive ordinance team was brought in to dispose of the car bomb.

The operation was based on actionable intelligence collected from sources in the area, officials said. The detainees are in the custody of the Iraqi army for questioning.

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311 posted on 11/17/2006 3:11:51 AM PST by RaceBannon (Innocent until proven guilty: The Pendleton 8)
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To: VaMarVet; All
This is an update that I have received concerning time frames:

It happened either this past Monday or Tuesday. I talked to his wife Wednesday morning and she said that his unit was going into the sector of the city where the sickness was rampant in order to weed out the insurgents who were firing mortars and RPGs into their position.

As I said earlier, the insurgents claimed that the Americans "gassed" the Iraqi's, inciting a lot of backlash towards David's unit, resulting in the gunfire and mortars being fired at the 5/14 soldiers. For the insurgents to use the term "gassed" makes me think they knew of the WMDs and their location beneath the weapons cache.

That comment that the Iraqis accused the Americans of gassing people shows they knew something was going on, not just propaganda.

312 posted on 11/17/2006 3:17:29 AM PST by RaceBannon (Innocent until proven guilty: The Pendleton 8)
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To: stylin19a
the sarin subway attack in Japan was ideal conditons for sarin killing a bazillion people, yet I seem to recall hardly anybody died and there were hardly any injuries... i wonder why ?

If I recall the flaw was in the delivery system.

313 posted on 11/17/2006 3:20:17 AM PST by mware (By all that you hold dear... on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: do the dhue
DEMOCRATS FIND WMDs IN IRAQ!!!

The dems won the election on November 7, and they STILL haven't found Bin Laden yet!!

314 posted on 11/17/2006 3:21:34 AM PST by RaceBannon (Innocent until proven guilty: The Pendleton 8)
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To: MindBender26

I know nerve agents are, but I have been out too long to know how the detectors work and on what degree. I would bet the chemical detectors would as well as the nerve agent detectors do.


315 posted on 11/17/2006 3:22:41 AM PST by RaceBannon (Innocent until proven guilty: The Pendleton 8)
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To: RaceBannon

I'm still having a hard time thinking that something happened four days ago which lead to hundreds of people falling sick and the incident has been reported nowhere other than in this thread.

Surely, even if the US was successfully keeping somekind of news blackout, there would be other individuals in the area reporting it on the internet?


316 posted on 11/17/2006 3:40:40 AM PST by Canard
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To: Canard

My thoughts, too, however, it may be a wartime censorship?


317 posted on 11/17/2006 4:05:29 AM PST by RaceBannon (Innocent until proven guilty: The Pendleton 8)
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To: Canard

True that Canard!


318 posted on 11/17/2006 4:09:20 AM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: RaceBannon; justa-hairyape

Your #311 was already posted on this thread. See post #216 by Freeper justa-hairyape.


319 posted on 11/17/2006 4:12:49 AM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: ohioWfan

I'll join you in praying for our troops. Every day is a new challenge that they meet with valor and we owe them our prayers and total support.

Jan


320 posted on 11/17/2006 4:32:47 AM PST by OldFriend (WEAKNESS IS A PROVOCATION, AN INVITATION TO OUR FOES TO CONFRONT US)
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