FOXNEWS: April 4, 2003 ... Explosives were IN PLACE at al Qaqaa on March 8

[Trajan]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83252,00.html

Allies Find Signs of Iraq's Chemical Preparedness
Friday, April 04, 2003

As the military advances closer to Baghdad, signs of Iraqi chemical preparedness are multiplying, although there is still no conclusive evidence Saddam Hussein's regime possesses weapons of mass destruction.



On Friday, troops at a training facility in the western Iraqi desert came across a bottle labeled "tabun" -- a nerve gas and chemical weapon Iraq is banned from possessing.

Closer to Baghdad, troops at Iraq's largest military industrial complex found nerve agent antidotes, documents describing chemical warfare and a white powder that appeared to be used for explosives.

U.N. weapons inspectors went repeatedly to the vast al Qa Qaa complex -- most recently on March 8 -- but found nothing during spot visits to some of the 1,100 buildings at the site 25 miles south of Baghdad.

Col. John Peabody, engineer brigade commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, said troops found thousands of 2-by-5-inch boxes, each containing three vials of white powder, together with documents written in Arabic that dealt with how to engage in chemical warfare.

Initial reports suggest the powder is an explosive, but tests are still being done, a senior U.S. official said. If confirmed, it would be consistent with what the Iraqis say is the plant's purpose, producing explosives and propellants.

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So: FauxNews has already explained to the world how the UN was at al Qa Qaa on March 8th, 2003, and how the 3rd Infantry Division had arrived at the site soon after the war started, finding 'thousands' of packages of explosive white powder .....

I guess that since they werent 'WMD's, no one was very concerned about those thousands of boxes of high explosives ....

Certainly not George W. Bush ....

Thanks to LynnTheDem for this link ....

[truthpusher]

1. They obviously found it, then left it because they were looking for...

...only one thing: chemical, biological or nuclear...something to justify the war. That was the mission. They could not protect the site because they did not have enough troops to do anything other than accomplish the mission: Mission Cover Bush's Ass.

[City Lights]

2. So apparently fux news doesn't read it's own stories.

Or they have selective memories. This should be blasted to the media, including the wrong-wing hate crowd.

[TexasProgresive]

3. That was a timely post.

I had just read an anti Kerry post on another site and was able to reply with your info. I just love archives. I remember this story when it first came out about the Tabun and the explosive powder, but the reports I heard did not give the scale of the quantity of the suspected explosives.