US troops say find second site with vials, powder

Reuters | 4/04/03

[kattracks]

US troops say find second site with vials, powder

NEAR BAGHDAD, April 4 (Reuters) - U.S. troops said on Friday they had found a second site near Baghdad containing vials of unidentified liquid and white powder.

A U.S. officer told Reuters the site was close to another plant, near Latifiya, where soldiers had found boxes of vials and chemical warfare manuals earlier in the day.

04/04/03 08:21 ET

[mware]

Fox and Friends reported this about 5 mnutes ago.

[Semper Paratus]

"Hey Ahmed, before we retreat secure those vials and brign them with you".
Ahmed, "Yes Major" (when camels fly)

[oyez]

By tomorrow the meidia will either squashed the story or forgotten about it.

[laz17]

Wait till they start searching the bunkers and tunnels under Baghdad. We'll be hearing lots of these reports.

[kattracks]

Yoo Hoo, Hans, guess what.

[Nataku X]

My pessimism says that this will be yet another hoax or false alarm. :-(

[Just mythoughts]

No wonder Russia and China (France and Germany) want this to stop now.

[Beck_isright]

VX powder????? Come on guys, get the lab work done asap, we want to humiliate the UN, Germany, France and Russia before the weekend.

V

[kattracks]

We were told time and again tht WMD would be found close to Baghdad. Apparently Hans and his crew never got the message.

[Smile-n-Win]

Yes, but where's the evidence? </sarcasm>

[never4get]

Come on, Iraq has told us they have no WMDs. Why doesn't anyone want to believe them? Just because they use civilians as human shields and blow up pregnant woman in car bomb attacks doesn't meant they have chem weapons and will use them. Shame on all of you for not believing them!!!!

[Neets]

Well your tag line explains your pessimism.

[kattracks]

Maybe we should let Chirac take a sniff?

[BenLurkin]

Its talcum powder . . .to go with the baby milk . . .</weak humor>

[hawkaw]

Further PROOF, whether leftists want to believe it or not...

Quite frankly, powder and viles are NOT proof. This is excellent circumstancial evidence but it does not confirm beyond doubt that they have them yet. You will need to quantify anything you find.

You know, on a side line, the administration used the WMD as but one of many reasons as an excuse for this invasion. Personally I don't care if they find WMD or not. Why? Because, I know we will have taken out a regime that would have disablized this very important region for years to come. This is the important fact that at least Bush and Blair recognized. If this regime was allowed to continue with the wealth it could gain from its oil, it would have threaten world peace again and again (and no doubt with better weapons). This regime will not be a headache for the west and our children will be safer for it. We have the leadership of Bush and Blair to thank for it.

hawk

[Naspino]

People this is just baking soda. Don't get your hopes up. They need to STOP leaking this information until its proven one way or another. I don't know how many wolf cries the country can take.

[GATOR NAVY]

Good thing our troops are smarter than these guys:

3 Fall Ill In Kanagawa From Possible WWII Poison Gas

Friday, April 4, 2003 at 07:00 JST

YOKOHAMA — Three construction workers fell ill Thursday after sniffing bottles found on the site of a former Imperial Japanese Navy facility involved in the research of toxic gas, local authorities said.

Although the workers' condition has improved, they are still hospitalized, police officials said. Kanagawa police have sent a chemical squad to the site to investigate.

The bottles, containing liquid and white crystals, were found at the site of the chemical experiment department of the Sagami naval works in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture.

Three bottles were sphere-shaped about the size of a baseball, the police said.

The scene is about 3.5 kilometers northeast of the site of the Sagami naval works where construction workers at a road construction site last September found about 10 old beer bottles with residues of mustard gas and other types of nerve gas agents.

The Sagami naval works is believed to have been involved in the production of chemical weapons before and during World War II.

Kanagawa Prefecture is building a government building on the site of the naval chemical research facility, about 1.3 km from JR Hiratsuka station. (Kyodo News)

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=255440