Iraqi Chemical Weapons Believed Found After Coalition Cluster-bombing

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[mrobison]

Fox News just reported that samples of suspected chemical weapons have been sent to the U. S. for analysis after coalition forces cluster-bombed an Iraqi position, then sent the Special Forces in to mop up.

[blam]

Thanks. Islamist SOBs!

[Maeve]

Hans Blix: "But what is the problem? Chemical weapons don't kill people. People kill people."

[xm177e2]

Of course Blix will say that they weren't intended to kill people, thus weren't weapons, unless he sees a sufficient number of American dead.
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And the Frogs will say that we planted them.

And the peaceniks will say our cluster bombs are the real WMDs...

[TheDon]

I've heard somewhere like 70% of our bombs are guided, precision.

[Calpernia]

Is this the story you heard? http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-12278349,00.html

Or were cluster bombs launched?

[Steve Schulin]

There's a Christian Science Monitor article, titled "New find in 'smoking gun' search, that mentions similar info, based on a joint press conference in Halabja. It's posted here

[Iwentsouth]

We use cluster bombs. Napalm is no longer used.

[TommyDale]

Fox News actually had an interview where the actual soldiers who seized the materials made the statement. That's as "first hand" as you will get. Forget the wire services -- they are too busy trying to second guess Rumsfeld to do any serious reporting!

[Straight Vermonter]

Wrong. The US has used napalm in GWI and in Afghanistan.

[3k9pm]

We're trying as hard as we can to deplete our current supply. I understand that we have been able to "dispose" of quite a large number of them recently.

[HP8753]

Try this site

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/dumb/cluster.htm

[Iwentsouth]

Pentagon denies report on napalm
March 24 2003





The Pentagon has a denied a report in The Age on Saturday that napalm was used in an attack by US Navy planes on an Iraqi position at Safwan Hill in southern Iraq.

A navy official in Washington, Lieutenant-Commander Danny Hernandez, said: "We don't even have that in our arsenal." The US military says it last used napalm in 1993 and destroyed its last batch of the weapon in 2001.

The report was filed by Age correspondent Lindsay Murdoch, who is attached to units of the First US Marine Division.

Murdoch's report was based on information from two marine officers, who said napalm was used in the air strike on the hill. One of the officers repeated that napalm was used when Murdoch was asked by The Age foreign editor to confirm the story on Friday.

[pttttt]

A navy official in Washington, Lieutenant-Commander Danny Hernandez, said: "We don't even have that in our arsenal." The US military says it last used napalm in 1993 and destroyed its last batch of the weapon in 2001.

Any idea why?

[mrobison]

This is correct. An official spokesman for the Armed Services was interviewed on-camera.

[3k9pm]

PC nicey nicey crap.

You want shock and awe.

Nothing induces capitulation faster than cooking a good portion of an op4 with napalm. Takes the fight out of troops pretty quick.

[Iwentsouth]

Bad press...

[Illbay]

Believe me: Geraldo would love nothing better than to find something like this and show it to the world.

In part of course because he is a hot-dog--a characteristic he shares with those like Mike Wallace, Bill O'Reilly and many other news "personalities."

In part, though, it is because the large number of friends he lost on 9/11 changed him forever.

[tricky_k_1972]

They have better more precise weapons to do the same job.

The fuel air bomb for example takes care of an area weapon to burn but causes much less after affects, also the daisy cutter produces the same brush clearing (defoliation) without the continued burn. I might also suggest that napalm makes for real lousy press. Pictures of live burning people don't make good pictures for the home front.

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks for the ping! Looking forward to seeing the results!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I heard it on the radio but I haven't seen anything on the net yet. I'll see if I can find something.