U.S. Army: 11 mobile chemical and biological labs, documents found buried near Karbal

[The Wicked Wop]

headline on CNN.

[codeorama]

The story finally came up:

U.S.: Mobile chem-bio labs found

Monday, April 14, 2003 Posted: 1:14 PM EDT (1714 GMT)

TIKRIT, Iraq (CNN) -- As U.S. Marines worked to secure the last major Iraqi city not in coalition control, Pentagon officials announced plans to scale back the American naval presence in the Gulf by bringing home two carrier groups in the coming days.

Meanwhile, U.S. troops believe they have found 11 mobile chemical and biological laboratories buried south of Baghdad, a U.S. general said Monday.

No chemical or biological weapons were found along with the labs, but soldiers recovered "about 1,000 pounds" of documents inside them, said Brig. Gen. Benjamin Freakly of the Army's 101st Airborne Division.

In his presentation to the U.N. Security Council in February, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said U.S. intelligence indicated Iraq had production facilities for biological weapons "on wheels and on rails."

After heavy airstrikes and intense fire fights on the city outskirts Sunday, coalition forces from the south, west and north moved early Monday into downtown Tikrit, the hometown of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

The Marines met "lighter than ... expected" resistance, "isolating" Republic Guard units and taking over one of Saddam's largest and most elaborate palaces, Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks of U.S. Central Command said Monday. (Full story)

U.S. forces rumbled through the north-central Iraqi city's streets, the predominant quiet interrupted by intermittent shelling, bombing and fire fights, New York Times reporter Paul Quinn Judge told CNN.

By day's end, many Marines had switched to "cleanup" mode, setting up checkpoints and preventing large numbers of Arabs from leaving Tikrit, said Time magazine reporter Paul Ware.

Back in Washington, Pentagon officials said the U.S. Navy fleet could drop the number of aircraft carrier battle groups within striking distance of Iraq from five to two in the coming weeks.

The USS Kitty Hawk and USS Constellation could leave the Persian Gulf in the next several days, officials said. That would leave the USS Nimitz, which recently replaced the USS Abraham Lincoln, as the only remaining carrier group in the Gulf.

Officials also said one of the two groups in the Red Sea, the USS Harry S. Truman or the USS Theodore Roosevelt could depart soon.

In addition, 20,000 members of the 1st Cavalry Division are not expected to deploy to Iraq in the immediate future, Pentagon sources said Monday. Similarly, only part of the 20,000-member 1st Armored Division, based in Germany, will deploy to the region under the revised plan.

[rv581]

If anyone finds a link, please post it.

I also heard on the radio that the marines searched Uday's home and found: liquor, Cuban cigars, downloaded porn-- and pictures of George W. Bush's twin daughters (!!)

[The Wicked Wop]

pictures of George W. Bush's twin daughters (!!)

I just heard that they found a mural of Saddam and the Bush twins at one of Saddam's palaces!!

[stratoman]

Code are you sure the report of 11 mobile labs came from CNN??

Uday was probably doing the knuckle shuffle to those pictures of the twins :jerkoff: