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2008-05-29 Iraq

Mass grave, tons of chemicals, 44 rockets found in northern Falluja

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Posted by Fred 2008-05-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State of Iraq

#1 These findings can be linked to informants. Some Katyushas are long range; the less of them in terrorist hands, the better.

Posted by McZoid 2008-05-29 00:37|| 2008-05-29 00:37|| Front Page Top

#2 What CHEMICALS? Salt?

Posted by Skidmark 2008-05-29 06:18|| 2008-05-29 06:18|| Front Page Top

#3 And how old are those Chemicals? Is this a Hussein stash or a new AQ or Sadr stash?

Posted by AlanC 2008-05-29 08:47|| 2008-05-29 08:47|| Front Page Top

#4 ...found two tons of chemicals...

I wonder what kind of chemicals?

Posted by JohnQC 2008-05-29 10:26|| 2008-05-29 10:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Gotta be an AQ or Sadr stash because we all know Bush lied.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2008-05-29 11:16|| 2008-05-29 11:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Holy Sarin Batman, thats a lot of chemicals!!!

Two Tons, let me repeat that TWO TONS of Chemicals...that would kill thousands of people if dispursed in a military weapon.

I bet the MSM buried that little line on page 43 next to the lost dog ads. That is if they didn't edit it out of the story all together.

Very interesting

Posted by Sock Puppet of Texas 2008-05-29 11:28|| 2008-05-29 11:28|| Front Page Top

#7 interesting thing is that AQ wasn't able to use this big cache

maybe all their technos were dead or defected

Posted by mhw 2008-05-29 12:08|| 2008-05-29 12:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Most likely they found two tons of Ammonium nitrate.

Posted by bruce 2008-05-29 12:16|| 2008-05-29 12:16|| Front Page Top

#9 even if it was 'only' Ammonium Nitrate, you can ask the people of Oklahoma City if having out of the hands of AQ was a big deal...

good news to me. good job troopers

Posted by Abu do you love 2008-05-29 14:57|| 2008-05-29 14:57|| Front Page Top

#10 The MSM isn't going to notice most of these stories. Voice of Iraq doesn't make a lot of reference to the Americans, for startsies. They don't paint the Iraqi forces as incompetent or corrupt, either.

The quality of the reporting's not up to that of Pak Daily Times yet, but I'm willing to give them time. I can remember Sammy's Uruk Net when it was Iraq's only English-language web. It was just about as bad as Syria's SANA site or Libya's Grand Enormous Jamahiriyah abomination.

Posted by Fred 2008-05-29 15:04|| 2008-05-29 15:04|| Front Page Top

#11 The chemicals might be chlorine. There was some used in that area several months back.

Posted by darrylq 2008-05-29 15:24|| 2008-05-29 15:24|| Front Page Top

#12 if they felt they needed to hide/bury the chemicals it couldn't have been good.
Will we find out what the chemicals were?

Posted by Jan 2008-05-29 16:09|| 2008-05-29 16:09|| Front Page Top

#13 Yah, what chemicals? C4 is a compound of only 3 chemicals, and is almost twice as powerful as TNT, and much easier to make. Katyushas have to be fired by rocket launcher. Let's call this investigation still open.

Posted by McZoid 2008-05-29 19:09|| 2008-05-29 19:09|| Front Page Top

#14 They're not Katyushas The Russians stopped making 132mm artillery rockets a long, long time ago.

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