codeorama Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 Officer: Troops Find Vials of Powder 38 minutes ago NEAR BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. troops found thousands of boxes of white powder, nerve agent antidote and Arabic documents on how to engage in chemical warfare at an industrial site south of Baghdad, a U.S. officer said Friday. Col. John Peabody, engineer brigade commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, said the materials were found Friday at the Latifiyah industrial complex 25 miles south of Baghdad. "It is clearly a suspicious site," Peabody said. Peabody said troops found thousands of boxes, each of which contained three vials of white powder, together with documents written in Arabic that dealt with how to engage in chemical warfare. He also said they discovered atropine, used to counter the effects of nerve agents. The facility had been identified by the International Atomic Energy Agency as a suspected chemical, biological and nuclear weapons site. U.N. inspectors visited the plant at least a dozen times, including as recently as Feb. 18. The facility is part of a larger complex known as the Latifiyah Explosives and Ammunition Plant al Qa Qaa. During the 1991 Gulf War (news - web sites), U.S. jets bombed the plant. On April 1, Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan, in a statement on Iraqi television, repeated Baghdad's position that it had no weapons on mass destruction. Referring to reports that gas masks and other chemical gear had been found elsewhere in the country, he said the coalition might plant weapons of mass destruction to implicate Iraq (news - web sites). "Let me say one more time that Iraq is free of weapons of mass destruction," he said. "The aggressors may themselves intend to bring those materials to plant them here and say those are weapons of mass destruction," he said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilmer17 Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 It's all about oil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codeorama Posted April 4, 2003 Author Share Posted April 4, 2003 Originally posted by Kilmer17 It's all about oil. I would hold your "I told you so's"... until there is definitive proof.. We are in the third week of the war and at least a dozen sites have been checked to date where Bush said there were chemical weapons, but none have panned out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilmer17 Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 In that same site they found a manual on how to wage a chemical war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ignatius J. Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 Source? -DB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codeorama Posted April 4, 2003 Author Share Posted April 4, 2003 Originally posted by DrunkenBoxer Source? -DB Sorry, it's on yahoo's main page as well as MSNBC.. It's pretty much old news now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyDave Posted April 5, 2003 Share Posted April 5, 2003 One of the Republican guard POWs pointed out the playground of a school and said during the inspections they buried some stuff there and covered it in cement. Marines are digging as we speak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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