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CHEMICAL WEAPONS?? I was assured by scores of Leftists that there were no CW.
Hahahahahahaha, yea. The Four Horsemen are saddling up peeps. Time to watch the show.
ISIS in Iraq seizes control of Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons facility | BARE NAKED ISLAM
WSJ Sunni extremists in Iraq have occupied what was once Saddam Hussein’s premier chemical-weapons production facility, a complex that still contains a stockpile of old weapons, State Department and other U.S. government officials said. The capture of the chemical-weapon stockpile by the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, known as ISIS or ISIL, the militant group that is seizing territory in the country, has grabbed the attention of the U.S.
"We remain concerned about the seizure of any military site by the ISIL,” Jen Psaki, the State Department spokeswoman, said in a written statement. “We do not believe that the complex contains CW materials of military value and it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to safely move the materials.”
The takeover underscores the chaos gripping Iraq and the possibility that the growing Sunni rebellion could further destabilize the Middle East. Not lost on U.S. government and military officials is the irony that the latest chapter in a war designed to strip Iraq of chemical weapons could see radical Sunni extremists take control of that same stockpile.
During the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, Hussein used the Muthanna complex to make chemical weapons, including sarin, mustard gas, and VX (a nerve agent), according the Iraq Study Group, which conducted the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in the aftermath of the war. The Iraq Study group did find chemical munitions at Muthanna but determined that inspections by United Nations Special Commission, or Unscom, had ensured the facility was dismantled and remaining chemical stocks militarily useless and sealed in bunkers.
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CHEMICAL WEAPONS?? I was assured by scores of Leftists that there were no CW.
I bet they feel pretty silly now that an anonymous blogger says otherwise.CHEMICAL WEAPONS?? I was assured by scores of Leftists that there were no CW.
Anyone have a real source that claims weapons are there? I won't hold my breath.
It's rabble rousing nonsense.
:scared:
Anyone have a real source that claims weapons are there? I won't hold my breath.
It's rabble rousing nonsense.
:scared:
I thought you might ask;;
Isis seize Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons stockpile | Drudge Retort
It was also in the WSJ and the The Telegraph.
Apparently the CIA knows all about it.Well if the leftists were wrong, things just got a little more interesting.
I thought you might ask;;
Isis seize Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons stockpile | Drudge Retort
It was also in the WSJ and the The Telegraph.
POSTED BY PANEOCON AT 01:14 PM | 10 COMMENTS
the articles also point out that the condition of these chemical weapons are deteriorating and are probably useless.
I'm not sure about Drudge.com
We don't know what precursors or other chemical exist at that plant or what the UN sealed up in those bunkers.
https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/iraq_wmd_2004/chap5_annxB.html
I'm not sure about Drudge.com
if the weapons are contaminated then i highly doubt the ISIL would try to use them
Increased Activity Seen at Suspected Syrian Chemical Weapons Site | Global Security Newswire | NTIOut of curiosity, where were the Chemical Weapons being used in Syria manufactured?
if the weapons are contaminated then i highly doubt the ISIL would try to use them
if the weapons are contaminated then i highly doubt the ISIL would try to use them
Can you explain that a little more? Why would ISIL not use contaminated chemical weapons?
Can you explain that a little more? Why would ISIL not use contaminated chemical weapons?
Increased Activity Seen at Suspected Syrian Chemical Weapons Site | Global Security Newswire | NTI
Feb. 19, 2009
Satellite images show an increase in operations at a suspected chemical weapons production facility in Syria...
Syria's chemical weapons program is believed to date back to the early 1970s. The Middle Eastern nation has likely produced mustard blister agent and sarin nerve agent...
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I tried to find the Sat photos of the truck moving from Iraq to Syria back before the war but, apparently they've been scrubbed from the Net.
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