Chemical Weapons Factory APPARENTLY Found in Iraq

[Graham.J]

Just been said on the news, South of Baghdad.

Not for certain but apparently they have, don't know how that works, you've either found one or you haven't.

[TheLemming]

A lot of equipment is dual use.

It may have legitimate uses, or could be used to produce all sorts of chemical and biological nastiness.

That makes it rather difficult to say for sure whether or not anything unsavoury has been produced at some point.

[cnh1990]

The 100 acre facility is surrounded by an electric fence and the building made to blend in to the desert with a sand berm on the sides. Guarded by a troop of 30 with a General and his superior. When questioned the General admittted it was a chemical weapons plant. Only down side was the embedded reporter with that particular military unit was Jewish in which case the people opposed to the war will label it as a Zionist/USA plot.

So the weapons inspectors visited the town but did not find this plant located outside the town of Najaf 90 miles soth of Baghdad.

Colin Powell presented a sample of the chemicals to the UN and radio intercepts of Iraqi's converstations regarding deceptions and to divert the inspectors. That was not enough for some people.

On another note the USA did not want to go public to embarass the Russians and wanted their goverment to put a stop to the Russian companies to halt illegal arm sales to Iran. Currently Russian technicians have been spotted in Iraq giving tech advice to the Iraqi's with their new GPS jammers that is suspected to have been smuggled into Iraq to divert the guided bombs. Also showing up are newer Russian anti tank rockets and night vision equipment banned by the UN . The USA has now gone public since prolonged after repeated attempts to pressure the Russian goverment to halt the transfer of this equipment by Russian companies.

We will also have to see which country supplied the chemical plant's equipment.
Calvin



>> Edited by cnh1990 on Monday 24th March 03:28

[Superflid]

I heard that the Iraqi communications network was optical cable supplied and installed by the Chinese.
Not 100% sure, but it does seem to add up when China's opposition to the war is taken into account.
Nobody is going to come out of this with a spotless record.

[elanturbo]

Calvin,..
The Iraqis have equiptment supplied by Russia, France, Britain, the USA and others.

[atg]

(elan ... question is when was it supplied)

[Podie]

Q: How does Bush know that Saddam has weapons of mass destruction?

A: He found the receipts!

[cnh1990]

atg said: (elan ... question is when was it supplied)

The night vision equipment and the GPS scramblers just showed recently arrived. Russian techs are there now showing them how to use it. Don't know when the new anti tank weapons were delivered. From what is going around that was one of the reasons for not delaying entry to the war.
Calvin