Early Tests Suggest Weapon 'Cocktail' Found in Iraq

KMAN · Apr 7, 2003

I know, I know....This is a lie also!

Mon April 7, 2003 01:19 PM ET
KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - Preliminary tests on substances found at a military training camp in central Iraq suggest they contain a cocktail of banned chemical weapons, including deadly nerve agents, U.S. officers said on Monday.
Maj. Michael Hamlet of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division said the initial tests revealed levels of nerve agents sarin and tabun and the blister agent lewisite, Reuters correspondent Kieran Murray reported from a U.S. military post at Kerbala.

Hamlet said a team of experts would carry out further tests as early as Tuesday on the substances, discovered at the camp in Albu Mahawish, on the Euphrates river between the central Iraqi cities of Kerbala and Hilla, site of ancient Babylon.

"If tests from our experts confirm this, this could be the smoking gun. It would prove (Iraqi President Saddam Hussein) has the weapons we have said he has all along," Hamlet said. "But right now we just don't know."

The United States invaded Iraq on March 20 to overthrow Saddam and prevent him using banned chemical weapons. Many other members of the United Nations opposed the attack, saying U.N. inspectors should be given more time to disarm Iraq.

KMAN

PatPatriot · Apr 7, 2003

Bagdhad Bob will come out and say that they were using these chems. to find a cure for SARS,... and CNN will report it as fact and have guy on questioning the US on why they are destroying medical research and development.

codeworks · Apr 7, 2003

"Smoking gun" WMD site in Iraq turns out to contain pesticide

Still have them however

KMAN · Apr 7, 2003

I think this is a different site. I have also heard that a couple of our troops have been contaminated with Sarin gas.

It will take a couple of days to finalize this finding but it has only been 2 weeks and look at all of the sites with possible weapons. In the coming weeks we are going to find a bunch more.

KMAN

radiofreecostarica · Apr 7, 2003

Sarin gas itself is still not a weapon.

Keep up the wishful thinking.

Jazz · Apr 7, 2003

radio: very clever hair-splitting. Funny, too. But wrong - the chemicals themselves are banned.

Come on, radio, list a peaceful purpose for Sarin nerve gas, Tabun and blistering agents APPARENTLY (and not yet proven) stored in probably 55 gallon drums on a military base by a regime that has already used these agents previously.

Are you going to dance on the head of this particular needle forever?

radiofreecostarica · Apr 7, 2003

you should try the dancing bit...great view from the head of a pin!

still no nukes!!!

The term WMD itself (all are guilty of its use) is a great example of newspeak...taking the spotlight of nuclear capabilities so as to find a country guilty of producing smaller weapons.