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Iraq: 'Terrorists' seize ex-chemical weapons site


UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Islamic State extremist group has taken control of a vast former chemical weapons facility northwest of Baghdad, where remnants of 2,500 degraded chemical rockets filled decades ago with the deadly nerve agent sarin are stored along with other chemical warfare agents, Iraq said in a letter circulated Tuesday at the United Nations.

The U.S. government played down the threat from the takeover, saying there are no intact chemical weapons and it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to use the material for military purposes.

Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim told U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a letter that "armed terrorist groups" entered the Muthanna site on June 11, detained officers and soldiers from the protection force guarding the facilities and seized their weapons. The following morning, the project manager spotted the looting of some equipment via the camera surveillance system before the "terrorists" disabled it, he said.


This is a confirmation of an earlier report and thread.

http://www.debatepolitics.com/break...ddam-hussein-s-chemical-weapons-facility.html
 
PressTV - ISIL funded by US to break up region: Analyst
The US won’t even deliver fighter planes to Iraq that have been paid for. The US disarmed the Iraqi army years ago and never really rearmed it and currently Nouri al-Maliki is going to have to turn to the Russians and to Iran for help, because the US is actually helping this extremist Takfiri, too extreme for al-Qaeda, ISIL establish this bogus caliphate, smear Islam, and smash the countries of the region. That is the real policy here
 
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Why is the word terrorist in quotes? There is no question about what they are just more biased reporting trying to legitimize Islamic extremists
 
All are screaming about a wall to keep out the boogie man. Anyone know how many tunnels are dug under the border? They are coming and there is nothing we can do.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNwURTEPjdE

The proclamation of the caliphate by the jihadists of the Islamic State was rejected by the residents of Aleppo, including some members of the Free Syrian Army, who saw this act as a threat to the popular revolution.....snip~
 
Why is the word terrorist in quotes? There is no question about what they are just more biased reporting trying to legitimize Islamic extremists

Because it's derived from a different quotation "armed terrorist groups" which they quote in the article. The source is Iraq's ambassador to the UN.

AP doesn't write like your fw:fw:fw: shocking! emails. Quotation marks don't mean "we're skeptical that this is true." They mean "these words came from the indicated source."

Everything's gotta be a goddamned conspiracy with some people...
 
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All are screaming about a wall to keep out the boogie man. Anyone know how many tunnels are dug under the border? They are coming and there is nothing we can do.

You think residue from old, decayed, and decontaminated chemical weapons containers is going to get shipped halfway around the planet and through a tunnel into the US?
 
Wouldn't you think before you withdrew all your forces and ran like away that'd you spend some of the billions of dollars put into the effort to destroy a chemical weapons site - that until now the media never even noticed existed?

Iraq: 'Terrorists' seize ex-chemical weapons site


UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Islamic State extremist group has taken control of a vast former chemical weapons facility northwest of Baghdad, where remnants of 2,500 degraded chemical rockets filled decades ago with the deadly nerve agent sarin are stored along with other chemical warfare agents, Iraq said in a letter circulated Tuesday at the United Nations.

The U.S. government played down the threat from the takeover, saying there are no intact chemical weapons and it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to use the material for military purposes.

Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim told U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a letter that "armed terrorist groups" entered the Muthanna site on June 11, detained officers and soldiers from the protection force guarding the facilities and seized their weapons. The following morning, the project manager spotted the looting of some equipment via the camera surveillance system before the "terrorists" disabled it, he said.


This is a confirmation of an earlier report and thread.

http://www.debatepolitics.com/break...ddam-hussein-s-chemical-weapons-facility.html
 
Wouldn't you think before you withdrew all your forces and ran like away that'd you spend some of the billions of dollars put into the effort to destroy a chemical weapons site - that until now the media never even noticed existed?

They did destroy the contents of the site. That's why the article is talking about leftover residue left behind by decontamination protocols.
 
All are screaming about a wall to keep out the boogie man. Anyone know how many tunnels are dug under the border? They are coming and there is nothing we can do.

Nothing a bit of heavier than air, long persistence poison gas pumped into the ground won't fix.

Hell, you could just use pumps, pipelines, and sea water.

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Nothing a bit of heavier than air, long persistence poison gas pumped into the ground won't fix.

Hell, you could just use pumps, pipelines, and sea water.

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Yes let's indiscriminately use chemical weapons against people because some crackpot thinks a terrorist might bring a nonfunctional chemical weapon into America.
 
Iraq: 'Terrorists' seize ex-chemical weapons site


UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Islamic State extremist group has taken control of a vast former chemical weapons facility northwest of Baghdad, where remnants of 2,500 degraded chemical rockets filled decades ago with the deadly nerve agent sarin are stored along with other chemical warfare agents, Iraq said in a letter circulated Tuesday at the United Nations.

The U.S. government played down the threat from the takeover, saying there are no intact chemical weapons and it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to use the material for military purposes.

Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim told U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a letter that "armed terrorist groups" entered the Muthanna site on June 11, detained officers and soldiers from the protection force guarding the facilities and seized their weapons. The following morning, the project manager spotted the looting of some equipment via the camera surveillance system before the "terrorists" disabled it, he said.


This is a confirmation of an earlier report and thread.

http://www.debatepolitics.com/break...ddam-hussein-s-chemical-weapons-facility.html

Good that someone has finally found Saddam's chemical weapons.
 
Good that someone has finally found Saddam's chemical weapons.

These haven't been weapons for decades?
 
If they were being guarded, they cannot have been harmless.

They were at a bunker that was still owned by the Iraqi government. They tend not to just let the public wander around there. And the empty shells are still toxic, you don't want kids playing around in there.

They aren't weapons. They're contaminated leftovers.
 
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Because it's derived from a different quotation "armed terrorist groups" which they quote in the article. The source is Iraq's ambassador to the UN.

AP doesn't write like your fw:fw:fw: shocking! emails. Quotation marks don't mean "we're skeptical that this is true." They mean "these words came from the indicated source."

I have no problem with the phrase "armed terrorist group" in quotes because it was a direct quote but every other time the word terrorist is used in the article is in quotations as if it were the opinion of one man or group, but it pretty much a consensus that they are terrorists


Everything's gotta be a goddamned conspiracy with some people...

strawman alert! no one claimed it was a conspiracy, just that the AP is turning into a partisan hack and probably because the echo chamber is more popular than the truth
 
They were at a bunker that was still owned by the Iraqi government. They tend not to just let the public wander around there. And the empty shells are still toxic, you don't want kids playing around in there.

They aren't weapons. They're contaminated leftovers.

Like much of the wmd the UN inspectors had found before 1995 and couldn't, when they were looking for them later.
 
They were at a bunker that was still owned by the Iraqi government. They tend not to just let the public wander around there. And the empty shells are still toxic, you don't want kids playing around in there.

They aren't weapons. They're contaminated leftovers.

The authorities there nor the UN inspecters on the ground don't know that so we sure don't.
 


I had seen a report 2 or so years ago, where they had found defunct wmd on various sites and couldn't understand why it wasn't made more public.
But to have it mentioned so by the way seems really odd seeing it is one of the things that stand against the USA in so many minds.
 
They were reported...just not by the press.

Yes. I know. I had seen it some yoears or so ago and wondered, why it was kept so quiet.
 
Like much of the wmd the UN inspectors had found before 1995 and couldn't, when they were looking for them later.

Saddam used chemical weapons during the Al-Anfal campaign, chemical weapons* where never disputed by anyone paying attention. The controversial aspect is whether he had (or was attempting to obtain) nuclear weapons and whether he was capable of using them against the west.

*The chemical weapons that we sold him, just for the record
 
The authorities there nor the UN inspecters on the ground don't know that so we sure don't.

Yes, they know that because they looked at the facility.
 
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