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April 07, 2003
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Yahoo! News - U.S. Says It May Have Found Iraqi WMD Storage Site NEAR BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. biological and chemical weapons experts believe they may have found an Iraqi storage site for chemical weapons, a U.S. officer told Reuters on Monday. Posted By PoliticaObscura at April 7, 2003 01:40 PM | TrackBackComments
This report is the latest. Posted by: politicaobscura at April 7, 2003 01:41 PMPlease, will somebody set up a database to keep track of these reports and counter-reports?!? Posted by: Dr. A at April 7, 2003 01:41 PMIt sounds like there's two reports - one on a group of drums in a warehouse, and one on the 20mm rickets. The rockets are still unconfirmed, the drums are now confirmed to be pesticide. Posted by: BF at April 7, 2003 01:44 PMIt's getting quite difficult to know which report is what; which have been discovered to be agricultural chemicals, which are still in the running as wmd and which are only training products? And the news stories seem to overlap and the reporters are having trouble keeping them straight as well. Posted by: Knitting a Conundrum at April 7, 2003 01:44 PMFrom what I just heard on the TV, the drums are not pesticide, but have been verified to contain sarin, as well as two other agents I can't remember the names of right now. Posted by: mojoski at April 7, 2003 01:47 PMI think the confusion here is because there have been several sites discovered. Nobody has labelled these sites. The CENTCOM should start issuing ID numbers to sites so we can figure out which sites particular reports are referring to. Posted by: Ted at April 7, 2003 01:50 PMMSNBC was just at *a* site. (I can't keep them straight, either). In any case, their embed reported direct on scene confirmation of sarin and mustard. These were found hastily buried and camouflaged, and in other suspicious circumstances. We're not just talking about farm chemicals lying around a farm. Posted by: DontTread at April 7, 2003 01:56 PMI am an EMT and we have recently received some in-depth training. There are something like 100 legal and common agricultural and industrial chemicals that will cause false positives in both symptoms, as well as "field tests," for chemical weapons. Especially Mustard and Sarin. Phosgene is perfectly legal and can be purchased in the U.S. "These were found hastily buried and camouflaged, and in other suspicious circumstances. " If you have ever followed the disposal of industrial chemicals, large amounts have been ilegally dumped. I think one would say finding them you would say they are "hasily buried and camoflaged." Posted by: owl at April 7, 2003 02:00 PMowl: You're thinking U.S., not Iraq. I don't think environmental legislation is particularly strong there. No need to hide pesticides from the feds. Posted by: Dr. A at April 7, 2003 03:33 PMPost a comment
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