EXCLUSIVE: US TROOPS CAPTURE CHEMICAL PLANT

The Jerusalem Post ^ | 3/23/2003 | Caroline B. Glick

[FreedomPoster]

(17:35) The Jerusalem Post's Caroline B. Glick, on the road to Baghdad with the US 3rd Infantry, reports it has captured what could be the first chemical weapons plant uncovered since the onset of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

[FreedomPoster]

Will try to register and get the full text now. This is the header on a main page.

[areafiftyone]

About 30 Iraqi troops, including a general, surrendered today to US forces of the 3rd Infantry Division as they overtook huge installation apparently used to produce chemical weapons in An Najaf, some 250 kilometers south of Baghdad.

One soldier was lightly wounded when a booby-trapped explosive went off as he was clearing the sheet metal-lined facility, which resembles the eery images of scientific facilities in World War II concentration camps.

The huge 100-acre complex, which is surrounded by a electrical fence, is perhaps the first illegal chemical plant to be uncovered by US troops in their current mission in Iraq. The surrounding barracks resemble an abandoned slum.

It wasn't immediately clear exactly which chemicals were being produced here, but clearly the Iraqis tried to camouflage the facility so it could not be photographed aerially, by swathing it in sand-cast walls to make it look like the surrounding desert.

Within minutes of our entry into the camp on Sunday afternoon, at least 30 Iraqi soldiers and their commanding officer of the rank of General, obeyed the instructions of US soldiers who called out from our jeep in loudspeakers for them to lie down on the ground, and put their hands above their heads to surrender.

Today's operation is the third engagement with Iraqi forces by the First Brigade of the US army's 3rd Infantry Division, since Saturday afternoon.

So far in the campaign, the brigade has suffered no losses. But two were wounded Saturday night in an ambush on the outskirts of As-Samwah in southern Iraq.

[MizSterious]

FYI

[FreedomPoster]

You beat me; either you type much faster, or already had a login. Thanks!

[areafiftyone]

I cheated. I already had a login! HEH HEH!! ;-)

[vastrightwc]

Chemical weapon plant? How did that get there? I though Blixie had this country covered.

[arkady_renko]

Good.

[EdReform]

BTTT

[Samwise]

BUMP

[Nita Nuprez]

Now maybe Paula Zahn and her cohorts will shutup and I can watch their footage without hitting mute.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

Why, don't you know? The U.S. obviously built this facility and trucked in chemical agents to frame the poor innocent Iraqi government! </ sarcasm, in case that wasn't blaringly obvious>

[litany_of_lies]

Ramsey Clark, call your office.

[areafiftyone]

AhhHa! This has got to be propaganda!! We all know there are NO weapons of Mass Distruction in Iraq! Nope None whatsoever! Nada! Zilch! ;-)

[FreedomPoster]

Pings.

[CatOwner]

Good, film it and send it to FoxNews. The American people need to see the truth.

[agincourt1415]

They should make this the POSTER CHILD of the Ineptness of Blix and his "Inspection Team".

[Peach]

One of hundreds - the news will come out but we can't convince the unconvincable. I've found the appeasers don't want to be confused with facts.

[vastrightwc]

The allies surely planted that chemical plant - what other explanation can there be?

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks for the ping -- MEGA PING coming up

[stands2reason]

I'm sure that plant was a plant! (/DU idiocy)