Looks like they located one those bio lab trailers ... I also heard on MSNBC that the UN inspection team may be brought in to verify the find. I am still holding my breath for those Anthrax attack drones General: Forces Find Iraq Arms Evidence May 7, 11:42 AM (ET) By PAULINE JELINEK WASHINGTON (AP) - American forces have collected "plenty of documentary" evidence suggesting Saddam Hussein had an active program for weapons of mass destruction, the commander of U.S. Army troops in Iraq. The reason Saddam didn't use them against invading forces may be that they were buried too well to retrieve before the fast coalition dash to Baghdad, said Lt. Gen. William S. Wallace, commander of the Army's Fifth Corps. "It's taking us a while ... to sort through the documentary evidence," Wallace told Pentagon reporters in video-conference from the Iraqi capital. "A lot of the information that we're getting is coming from lower-tier Iraqis who had some knowledge of the program but not full knowledge of the program, and it's just taking us a while to sort through all of that." He did not elaborate. The Bush administration said destroying Iraq's suspected chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs was the main reason for the war. Despite weeks of searching its top suspected sites, none have been reported found so far. And though Pentagon officials suggested before the war that some Iraqi units were armed with chemical weapons, none were found when those units were overrun. Experts were still studying a trailer suspected to be the first discovered biological-chemical mobile lab, said Wallace, who led the maneuver force and was battle commander for the battle of Baghdad. Acknowledging that it was only one of his theories, Wallace said the reason such weapons never were used was that the Iraqis had to hide them from U.N. weapons inspectors up until the last days before the war. "Inspectors only left Baghdad a few days before the start of the campaign," Wallace said. "Because they were so clever in disguising them and burying them so deep, they themselves had a problem getting to it." Wallace said among work his men are doing now is joint police patrols and helping train Iraqis in police procedures. He said there is still small arms fire in Baghdad and occasional criminal acts that he attributed partly to prisoners Saddam released before the war in an unusual pardon. Looting also has been a problem in the power vacuum left by the fall of Saddam's regime. "I'm not particularly concerned about security in Baghdad at all," other than that, he said, adding that there are no areas in the entire country that he is "overly concerned about." Troops are making progress in Tikrit, Saddam's hometown, and are expanding operates all the way to the Syrian border in the west of Iraq, he said.
I think they ran out of duct tape to hold the drones together, that's why we didn't find any more. Weapons of Mass Distraction? Worked great. Less filling.
I think we'll get false reports until, oh say, about a month before the next Presidential election, then voila, we'll find the real deal. Gotta maximize the effect, baby.
Wheres My Dinner? Wheres My Dog? Who's My Daddy? When's Mothers Day? First we need clarification on the WMD then we can proceed.
Not impressed with this really. Its pretty clear WMD are present in this country. Whether this find can be substantiated or not I'm pretty confident Saddam had such weapons in his possession. Clinton knew it and now Bush. After the bombing in 98' I highly doubt any WMD were destroyed. Given Clinton's other failed campaign(on top of many) to rid of us of the scum that was/is Bin Laden with those cruise missles that were dropped on abandoned terror camps in Afghanistan I have little faith anything was destroyed.
Please contact CIA and lead them to it already and cash in on your reward. Geez... we're all waiting.
Well you're going to have to wait a little bit longer. Geez people it's not like Saddam Hussein is stupid enough to just leave WMD laying around so that we could walk in and say "oh there's a nuclear bomb sitting there, and biological weapons here, hey there's mustard gas!" The U.S. was on his back, the U.N. was on his back, weapons inspectors were watching him and other countries were watching Iraq. It's obvious that the weapons are hidden and hidden well, maybe moved to another country, or buried. Especially when the U.S. said they would bomb Iraq. It's going to take more then a month to find it. There are people who were ticked off we didn't find it days after the attack, geez relax!
How is it obvious that the weapons are hidden? We just had two people say it's clear that they're there and it's obvious that they're hidden. Both of these statements are in reality pure speculation. The war lasted a month and it's been over for three weeks now. We've had the top Iraqi scientist in custody for weeks, have had Aziz in custody for over a week, and we just got Mrs Germ or whatever the heck. We're offering rewards in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, have free reign over the whole country, and allegedly had all kinds of "emphasized" intelligence on Iraq's WMD that's proving so far to be complete nonsense. When WMD was the justification to the world to authorize war then it's not unreasonable to expect to be shown that evidence in a timely manner. What's really happening here is that Bush has lost steam on the WMD trail and has changed the subject the same way he did with his Bin Laden dead or alive jive after he was unable to track him down in Afghanistan. We've seen it before.
Well, the Iraqis were stupid enough to leave the nuclear sites unguarded and they were looted by the time we *secured* them. We're not sure, but we think most of the nuclear stuff is there but since all the computers were stolen and we aren't allowing the UN inspectors that know what was there back in, we may never know what is missing. This is old news. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35498-2003Apr24.html
You'd think we'd offer rewards for WMD since we that's ostensibly *why* this whole mess started: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27545-2003May7.html Works for art, why not WMD? Unless the adminstration really does not care?
