Huge Iraqi Chemical Weapons Factory Found -Fox News (unconfirmed)

by hunter Mon Mar 24, 2003 02:40

U.S. Finds Suspected Iraq Chemical Plant
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WASHINGTON - U.S. troops have found a suspected chemical factory in Iraq (news - web sites) and officials were trying to determine late Sunday whether it was involved in making chemical weapons, U.S. officials said.

The plant is near the city of An Najaf, which U.S. troops reached Sunday on a push to Baghdad, the officials said. President Bush (news - web sites) and other U.S. officials say ridding Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s regime of chemical and biological weapons is the main objective of the war.

Saddam's government denies it has any chemical, biological or nuclear weapons or programs to produce them. Asked at a news conference in Qatar Sunday about reports of the chemical plant, Lt. Gen. John Abizaid of U.S. Central Command declined comment. He said top Iraqi officers have been questioned about chemical weapons.

"We have an Iraqi general officer, two Iraqi general officers that we have taken prisoner, and they are providing us with information," Abizaid said. If the plant is confirmed as a chemical weapons factory, it would be the first find by the U.S.-led invasion force validating U.S. allegations that Iraq still has weapons of mass destruction.

by LD Mon Mar 24, 2003 02:49

BBC are saying the site is 160km south of Baghdad
The reporter said this as far as they are concerned is unconfirmed. He also made sure to mention that because of the tough day the U.S have had, ambushes, POW's shooting down of aircraft that this is just the news they would need.

Interestingly enough Sky reported this an hour and a half before BBC, they also had a spokesperson from the Pentagon.

Very ?????

by LD Mon Mar 24, 2003 03:03

According to Sky the UN have come out and said that they are not aware of any chemical weapons sites in the area!

Sky are now referring to this story as a "suspected Chemical factory"

This is according to Sky from a Jurusalem Post Journo saying he was there on Sunday.

by Killian Forde Mon Mar 24, 2003 03:27

According to fox news!!????

According to fox news on the first night of the bombing hundreds of thousands of people had fled baghdad, on the first morning us/uk military have secured Umm Qasr.

My cat would be able to give a more acurrate and informative view of the ongoings that these right wing idiots

by Phuq Hedd Mon Mar 24, 2003 03:51

A 100 acre site would hardly have been missed by the UN inspections teams that were succesfully combing the country until the US embarked upon this illegal war.

It would have been visible from the air let alone by a military satellite and there is thus no chance that it was "suddenly discovered".

by Bealtaine Mon Mar 24, 2003 09:54

It wouldn't be a baby milk factory would it?

by Terry Mon Mar 24, 2003 12:26

Scott Ritter who was chief UN arms inspector for at least 5+ years in Iraq in the mid to late 90s
(and who happens to be republican) said they had destroyed 90-95% of all weapons of mass destruction
including all capability to produce such happens.

He has consistently come out against this war, and said the most recent stuff about WMD is total lies.
The reason he said the figure is 90-95% is because it is like if you produced accounts for a huge corporation,
you can never accurately count every 'penny' as it were. But he was in no doubt, that the Iraqis had any
means to produce such weapons any more.

It must be remembered that it was British and US companies that originally built the chemical weapons factories
and supplied the chemicals.

We can be sure these claims on Fox news are completely bogus and conviently come at a time just as the war
machine is beginning to slow down, and all the predictions of human disaster by peace activists and
retired generals alike are coming true.

by Tim Mon Mar 24, 2003 12:27

The first suspect thing about this story is the source, FOX news.
I've seen too much of Brian Kilfeather and his fellow desk jocks to have any faith in their propoganda.

I've never seen a station to run so enthusiastically with stories full of
"it has been reported that..."
"Sources believe it may be..."
meaning "Ari Fleischer told us to say..."

and a 100 acre site "suddenly" discovered? yeah, that's well dodgy.

What I'm concerned with these sites about is what they'll do to many industrial sites.

Bombing any industrial site (whether it makes plastic or cannon shells) can be a really bad idea.

Most Iraqis are dependent on river water for drinking, due to the destruction of water treatment and distribution networks.

Its bad enough there's more sewage in them from the bombing of sewage works.

bombing a riverside industrial site will lead to major toxic releases into the rivers which will then poison the people downstream.

(see Serbia 1999, NATO bombed the Zastava car factory in Kragujevac causing major toxic releases)

That's not a very smart bomb.

by Fox News Mon Mar 24, 2003 15:28

Saddam Hussein's office has been raided.Allthough the evil tyrant was not there,American Special Services officers have found a hand written Thank You card,written by Osama Bin Laden,thanking Saddam for the VX gas and the flying lessons.

by Lie News Mon Mar 24, 2003 15:35

The pentagon has confirmed that 1 Iraqi civilian has been killed in Iraq since the Allied bombing campaign was launched.The civillian was being used as a human shield by the evil tyrant,Hussein.Other pictures of dead babies filled with shrapnel are the work of the evil regimes soldiers who kill the babies and say it was the work of Allied forces.The pentagon has also released details of it's new super intelligent guided missile.If heading for a building that is not a military target it will turn itself into a loaf of bread and various medical supplies.