Massive nuclear facility found in Iraq
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Hmmmm... preliminary at best but I do hope we find something soon... I found this paragraph interesting:
"The Marines should be particularly careful because of those high readings," he told the paper. "Three hours at levels like that and people begin to vomit. That leads me to wonder, if the readings are accurate, whether radioactive material was deliberately left there to expose people to dangerous levels.
"You couldn't do scientific work in levels like that. You would die."
Time will tell. Iwonder what happened to the 20 armed chemical warheads reported to have been discovered last week? No new news on them.
"The Marines should be particularly careful because of those high readings," he told the paper. "Three hours at levels like that and people begin to vomit. That leads me to wonder, if the readings are accurate, whether radioactive material was deliberately left there to expose people to dangerous levels.
"You couldn't do scientific work in levels like that. You would die."
Time will tell. Iwonder what happened to the 20 armed chemical warheads reported to have been discovered last week? No new news on them.
I can't remember where I read it, but someone made a good point about the "hush-hushness" of these types of discoveries. They said that if we made all those details known, Iraqi fighters might be more compelled to use those weapons because they would no longer have anything to hide. I think once the fighting settles down, we'll make it known exactly what we have found. With all the discoveries we have made, I believe that at least some of this stuff is considered WMD.
If this facility is indeed illegal, it makes me wonder what the UN inspectors would have to say about it, considering they had searched the area several times.
If this facility is indeed illegal, it makes me wonder what the UN inspectors would have to say about it, considering they had searched the area several times.
Heard on the news the nuke facility has been known to UN inspectors for years.
However, various items in it were under "seal" and those may have been broken....
However, various items in it were under "seal" and those may have been broken....
Hmm, coincident?
Three hours at my job and I begin to puke.
Tell your coworkers to close the microwave door when they heat something up.Originally posted by Heidi
Hmm, coincident?
Saddam is big on tunnels and underground facilities... the UN inspectors seal and monitor all known entrances while Saddam makes a few new tunnels and alternate entrances... I'd do it if I was an international despot.
WTF is "missile water" ? Google search came up empty.
If the UN inspectors knew about this for years, why are we saying we have "found" it.
I would guess that is what you tell the unsuspecting locals to make them stay out.
The facility wasn't "found"... the underground comples and what might be weapons grade plutonium was...
BAGHDAD, Iraq U.S. Marines may have found weapons-grade plutonium in a massive underground facility discovered beneath Iraq's Al Tuwaitha nuclear complex, an embedded reporter told Fox News Thursday.
U.S. `discovery' of nuclear materials said to be breach of U.N.-monitored site
April 10, 2003 3:02 PM
The Associated Press
Vienna, Austria-AP -- U-S troops in Iraq may have unknowingly broken U-N seals meant to control radioactive material.
Some Marines have suggested they uncovered evidence of an active nuclear weapons program in Iraq. But today, officials said they may have unwittingly stumbled across known stocks of low-grade uranium.
This week, leaders of a Marine combat engineering unit said they found a network of laboratories beneath a nuclear research center south of Baghdad.
But an expert familiar with U-N nuclear inspections told The Associated Press it was implausible to believe that U-S forces had uncovered anything new at the site. The official says the Marines apparently broke U-N seals designed to ensure the materials aren't diverted for weapons use -- or end up in the wrong hands.
April 10, 2003 3:02 PM
The Associated Press
Vienna, Austria-AP -- U-S troops in Iraq may have unknowingly broken U-N seals meant to control radioactive material.
Some Marines have suggested they uncovered evidence of an active nuclear weapons program in Iraq. But today, officials said they may have unwittingly stumbled across known stocks of low-grade uranium.
This week, leaders of a Marine combat engineering unit said they found a network of laboratories beneath a nuclear research center south of Baghdad.
But an expert familiar with U-N nuclear inspections told The Associated Press it was implausible to believe that U-S forces had uncovered anything new at the site. The official says the Marines apparently broke U-N seals designed to ensure the materials aren't diverted for weapons use -- or end up in the wrong hands.
Know what pisses me off? That folks can't wait till things are verified before they go and report it.
It makes us look like morons.
"We found WMD"
"No we didn't"
"OK... NOW we found WMD"
"Whoops! it was fertalizer"
"This HAS to be WMD!!"
"Ok, its only a rabid squirrel"
It makes us look like morons.
"We found WMD"
"No we didn't"
"OK... NOW we found WMD"
"Whoops! it was fertalizer"
"This HAS to be WMD!!"
"Ok, its only a rabid squirrel"
LOL ....I was watching CNN the other day and the reporter was in some scientific compound and he said that in a laboratory troops had found some un-identified chemicals. Chemicals, in a laboratory, surely you can't be serious, what's next un-identified organic compounds in a restaurant???Originally posted by -BB-
Know what pisses me off? That folks can't wait till things are verified before they go and report it.
It makes us look like morons.
"We found WMD"
"No we didn't"
"OK... NOW we found WMD"
"Whoops! it was fertalizer"
"This HAS to be WMD!!"
"Ok, its only a rabid squirrel"
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