Saddam's Bodyguard Reveals Secret Arsenal

Gordon homas.ie ^ | 1/28/2003 | Gordon Thomas

[eyespysomething]

That was rheotorical (Whadda mean you can't hear the sarcasm?)

[Eternal_Bear]

those motorized sea mines sound a bit farcical. It sort of makes the rest of the article a bit suspect.

[A Cyrenian]

Quick someone go inform Susan Sarandon of this information. I'm sure if she knew this, she wouldn't go on television and make a complete ass of herself.

Too late.

[Charles Martel]

Yeah, I noticed the "Russian Mirage", too. Considering that Iraq has or had both French and Soviet warplanes, the mistake seems honest enough.

[SpaceBar]

Already posted here.

[College Repub]

This was a debka story about 5 days ago!

[The Wizard]

So dig this......

what if the boys in blue are slowly, quietly taking over installations around the country, (and getting a lot of help internally from people who want to live and didn't get out last time) so that when we attack, his highness won't be able to wreak everything, becasue it will already be under control......you betcha

[Travis McGee]

'Rats never ever admit their mistakes, they just move on to their next lies.

[Charles Martel]

"The actual entrance to the site is through a house in Tikrit. It is the home of one of Saddam's cousins. The entrance is over half a mile from where the weapons are stored".

Don't you just hate relatives who impose their weapons of mass destruction storage needs on you? ;-)

I'd really hate to be ol' Saddam's cousin when one of our thermobaric weapons hits that facility and the pressure wave boils into that house. Ouch.

[Eva]

I hope that the evidence is exposed before Scott Ritter is due to speak at that college. If the evidence comes out first, I would love to be in the audience to ask Scotty about his lies.

[swarthyguy]

Debka bump!

[Redcloak]

There is no camera system that can peer through that much water. Remember that carriers and other large ships do not venture into the shallows. They stay in deeper water; deep enough to prevent much usable light from reaching the bottom. It would be impossible to distinguish a dinghy from a carrier based on its shadow at that depth. A magnetometer would work, but a minesweeper's magnetometer would detect the mine long before the mine detected a carrier. Also, the Navy has improved its "littoral" accoustic systems since the end of the Gulf War. I doubt that a noisy, little tinker-toy scuttling along the bottom would escape their notice.

These robo-mines might have worked well in a lake, but they won't work in the open water.

[CyberAnt]

Well ... now that the sites have been revealed to the public, you can bet all the stuff has been moved - and if we rush to check it out, it would only provide a "gotcha" from Sadaam - SEE - THERE IS NOTHING THERE!!

Hmmm?? I suspect a setup!

[zygoat]

Is that your quote? It is the absoulute truth!

[bray]

I hope our guys remind all the American people who was playing cheap politics with their families' lives! You have to know that Traitor Tommy and Queen Rat already knew of this??

Pray for GW and the Troops

[ppaul]

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[Chemist_Geek]

The weapons include motorised underwater mines capable of creeping along the sea bed and then surfacing beneath a battleship or carrier.

Each mine is filled with chemicals that upon explosion can envelop the ship in a deadly cloud of poison.

Obviously, they've never heard of washdown systems...

Using chemical weapons against ships is at best a waste of time, and at worst will only tick us off even more.

[gundog]

...those motorized sea mines sound a bit farcical.

Yeah...that woulda put the USS Cole at the bottom of the sea; I'm inclined to think that they would have been used already, if they existed.

[concerned about politics]

Well ... now that the sites have been revealed to the public, you can bet all the stuff has been moved

"In the past weeks, they have been moved to Basra - ready to be launched against the naval armada assembling in the Gulf."
I'd assume our government has been keeping tabs on where they're moving these things. Many sound unmovable.

[eyespysomething]

Me too! But from what I was reading about that, it is a very librul college, but maybe a few good people could get in a torment him. I'm sure he would have a snit, and pout and say it's all a complex plan to make him look bad. (NOTE TO MR. RITTER: you did that yourself when your propositioned under-aged girls!)