Interesting... nuke armed missiles reported found in Iraq

[keith]

On the Washington Times web site today:

Nuclear arms reportedly found in Iraq

"Iraqi security reportedly discovered three missiles carrying nuclear heads concealed in a concrete trench northwest of Baghdad, official sources said Wednesday."

Keith.

 

[Pablo]

Wholly crap - is this real?????

 

[keith]

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Originally posted by Pablo:
Wholly crap - is this real?????

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Hard to say. Obviously it needs to be verified. Could be a rather big story though. It's going to be hard for Dan Rather and the rest to ignore this.

Keith.

 

[Weatherlite]

In a twisted sort of way I hope it is.

 

[Pablo]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5731553

 

[moribundman]

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Interior Ministry dismissed as "stupid" a report in a local newspaper on Wednesday that said three nuclear missiles had been found near the town of Tikrit.

A senior U.S. military official told reporters he had no information on the report in the newspaper al-Sabah. He said officials were checking the report.

Asked by Reuters about the report, a spokesman at the Interior Ministry said: "It's stupid."

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Yup that's certainly good enough for me.

 

[labman]

Let's just relax until there is time to verify this.

 

[Mystic]

Hard to tell right now if there is any truth to this report or not. It seems unlikely to me that Iraq under Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons, but you never know. To me it seems more likely that he had chemical, biological, and perhaps dirty bomb weapons that may be hidden somewhere in Iraq or perhaps were moved to another country, such as Syria.

One thing for sure-if three nuclear weapons were in fact found, then there was certainly justification for the invasion of Iraq.

 

[moribundman]

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Hard to tell right now if there is any truth to this report or not.

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A "report" based on a rumor.