Posted on 02/17/2015 10:14:51 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The CIA worked with the U.S. military to purchase Iraqi rockets containing the deadly nerve agent sarin, as part of a secret effort to keep terrorists and militant groups from acquiring old chemical weapons in Iraq, The New York Times reported Sunday.
The U.S. military considers the purchase plan – Operation Avarice, which took place in 2005 and 2006 – to be a nonproliferation success, the Times said.
It netted at least 400 Borak rockets, one of the chemical weapons that Saddam Hussein's government produced in the 1980s, according to the report. UN inspectors were unable to locate the rockets after the Gulf War in 1991.
That doesn't mean there aren't any weapons caches left in Iraq for extremists to take over, though.
In July, Iraq said in a letter that the Islamic State group, formerly known as ISIS, had taken control of a vast former chemical weapons facility northwest of Baghdad, where remnants of 2,500 degraded chemical rockets filled with sarin are stored along with other chemical warfare agents.
At the time, the U.S. said there were no intact chemical weapons there.
But many of the rockets purchased as part of Operation Avarice were in poor condition, the Times reported, saying that analysis showed the leftover sarin to be more potent than intelligence officials had expected given its age.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
But here weren’t any, or so we were told by the MSM..............over and over and over.......................
Heard about this on Fox BusineesNews....
Wait... I thought there weren’t any WMD’s in Iraq so how could the CIA buy them in Iraq?
Agreed....If there weren’t any in Iraq, how did the CIA buy them from Iraq ? What does this mean to the libs version of events that says Iraq had no WMD’s ?
There were no chemical weapons in Iraq!
The Democrats told us so...as did the MSM.
“That doesn’t mean there aren’t any weapons caches left in Iraq for extremists to take over, though.”
Of course there are more.
From the gitgo, some of us have been asking just what the hell did Sadddam use to murder all those Kurds, AIR FRESHENER??
This begs a really interesting question: WHY THE HELL DIDN’T BUSH MAKE ALL THIS PUBLIC AT THE TIME? Was he part of the plan to trash the GOP’s chances for the next elections to advance the NWO?????
They’ll ignore it.
And yet The Church of Liberal Theology still insists “Bushes War” was illegal because he “LIED” about weapons of mass destruction. Where are the liberals apologies? I’m waiting..... (crickets chirruping)
Bush lied, the country died.
Lied by omission - not refuting the left’s accusations that drove their base and the country absolutely batsht crazy,
which got Obama elected, and the country died.
“What does this mean to the libs version of events that says Iraq had no WMD’s ?”
ISIS now has WMDs and it’s Bush’s fault because he lied about Iraq having no WMDs.
Better for the troops, to overpay a contractor to hopefully dispose of them according to spec.
Supposedly Rove now regrets it now,.
This story has no proof. It is a fictional account by a “never been heard of publication”.Totally unsubstantiated. I assure you this would have leaked.
It may be a cover for hillary’s buy back of stinger missles in Bengahzi ( That didn’t work).
Yet MORE evidence that Rove is something other than what he portrays himself to be.
I wish FOX would keep the asshole off their air.
Why did they have to be “purchased” and now that the rockets are in US’ hands, who will they be used on?
The NY Times?.....
” This begs a really interesting question: WHY THE HELL DIDN’T BUSH MAKE ALL THIS PUBLIC AT THE TIME? Was he part of the plan to trash the GOP’s chances for the next elections to advance the NWO?????”
Probably. He is of the NWO/NAU family, after all.
” Supposedly Rove now regrets it now,. “
Supposedly, hell just froze over....
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