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Huge Iraqi arms cache found
The Sunday Times (Australia) ^ | April 4, 2003

Posted on 04/04/2003 4:01:28 PM PST by Ooh-Ah

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To: Grampa Dave; Sawdring; SAMWolf; Travis McGee
Brand-new Russian and Chinese weapons bump.
21 posted on 04/04/2003 4:23:31 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: Ooh-Ah
Brand new Russian and Chinese weapons.....someone has some 'splaining to do..

While I hope this administration has the guts to call them on this, I don't know if we will.
22 posted on 04/04/2003 4:24:56 PM PST by Live free or die
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To: Dog
Brand new Russian and Chinese weapons.....someone has some 'splaining to do..

Yeah. You do.

The article makes no statement about the vintage of the weapons.

23 posted on 04/04/2003 4:25:33 PM PST by Poohbah (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
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To: Poohbah
and his men broke into a freight container holding an arsenal of brand new arms which included grenades, Russian and Chinese machine guns, automatic carbines and almost a tonne of ammunition.
24 posted on 04/04/2003 4:28:13 PM PST by Dog ("I want my freedom. I don't want food or water. I just want freedom." - an Iraqi man to a US soldier)
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To: RoseofTexas
The WMD are there! Give our Troops a chance.
25 posted on 04/04/2003 4:28:57 PM PST by cmsgop ( Arby's says no more Horsey Sauce for Scott Ritter !!!!)
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To: husky ed
I have no problem with these "arms cache"..

I don't believe they were allowed in the "oil for palaces", excuse me, "oil for food" program. And then there are our buddies, the Russians and Chinese...
26 posted on 04/04/2003 4:29:21 PM PST by Ooh-Ah
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To: Dog
Thank you.

F***ing eyeglasses prescription needs updating.

However...

You DO realize that there are people who make a living smuggling small arms, right?

And that they may not particularly give a s**t about UN arms embargoes?

And that they are not necessarily tied to the Russian and/or Chinese governments?

And that one of their favorite methods is to use forged end-user certificates?
27 posted on 04/04/2003 4:30:48 PM PST by Poohbah (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
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To: Poohbah
Yes I do....
28 posted on 04/04/2003 4:32:48 PM PST by Dog ("I want my freedom. I don't want food or water. I just want freedom." - an Iraqi man to a US soldier)
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To: Dog
They obviously got them at an American gun show.

</sarcasm>

29 posted on 04/04/2003 4:33:43 PM PST by Redcloak (All work and no FReep makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no FReep make s Jack a dul boy. Allwork an)
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To: Ooh-Ah
More goodies financed by the UN Oil for Weapons... er, FOOD programme.
30 posted on 04/04/2003 4:38:09 PM PST by Carry_Okie (Because there are people in power who are truly evil.)
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To: Ooh-Ah
This cannot be.

There was a strict UN ban on weapons sales to Iraq!

< /irrelevant filter >
31 posted on 04/04/2003 4:41:32 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (Let's Roll)
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To: Ooh-Ah
I don't believe they were allowed in the "oil for palaces", excuse me, "oil for food" program. And then there are our buddies, the Russians and Chinese...

Not arguing that point just the fact that they found a store house of weapons, that all countries have.

I agree they should have been using the money from oil for food. But we all know (except for U.N. inspectors) that that wasn't happening.

32 posted on 04/04/2003 4:42:53 PM PST by husky ed (FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Great to see that we're giving our "allies" billions in aid. Where are the WMD? Did we receive bogus "intelligence" on this matter? Now I'm hearing that even if we don't find WMD that is was worth the war to get rid of a SOB dictator. How many countries fall into this category?
33 posted on 04/04/2003 4:43:59 PM PST by doc
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To: PhilDragoo
I shocked! Shocked I tell you!
34 posted on 04/04/2003 4:44:28 PM PST by SAMWolf ("We're the Marines. We took Iwo Jima, Baghdad ain't sh*t! - Marine to a Reporter)
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To: Dog
Brand new Russian and Chinese weapons.....someone has some 'splaining to do..

Not sticking up for either party, but this doesn't really prove anything- not until/unless we can check serial numbers, establish dates of manufacture, etc- these things could have been around for years, passed around through several countries.

35 posted on 04/04/2003 4:54:00 PM PST by fourdeuce82d
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To: Ooh-Ah
"We are even seeing some radical militia members queuing for food and water at our distribution points. They appear to have laid down their weapons and gone back into civilian mode.
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In what other period in history would one enemy feed another during the war? I thought I had noticed certain men in the food distribution crowds that acted peculiar and proceeded to take food after they were instructed to stop. My first thought is that they were militia civilian dressed military.
36 posted on 04/04/2003 4:55:05 PM PST by cold_dead_fingers
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To: Ooh-Ah
Paging, Mr. Blix!
37 posted on 04/04/2003 4:58:20 PM PST by TaxRelief
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To: Dog
the Iraqi's were following the "French Military Handbook".....Chirac would be proud
38 posted on 04/04/2003 5:01:18 PM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: SAMWolf

You say there are brand-new Russian and Chinese weapons in my club!?
I am shocked, shocked!

39 posted on 04/04/2003 5:05:40 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: PhilDragoo
Ah, you wore Blue, and the German's wore grey..
40 posted on 04/04/2003 5:08:56 PM PST by Sub-Driver
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