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Pentagon rejects claims of 1991 nuclear explosion in Iraq
2008-10-11
(AKI) - The US Department of Defense has rejected idiotic controversial claims that the American military dropped a five-kilotonne nuclear bomb in southern Iraq during the first Gulf War in 1991.

Lt. Col. Patrick Ryder, a media spokesman for the department, told Adnkronos International (AKI) that the US used "only conventional weapons" during the Gulf War. Ryder was responding to claims made by a delusional US veteran, and irresponsibly aired on Italian television, that a small five-kilotonne nuclear bomb was dropped in a deserted area outside the southern city of Basra, on the border of Iran.

"The US maintains a number of munitions that have an explosive capability of 5000 pounds (2300 kilogrammes) and larger," Ryder told AKI in a written statement. "It is not possible for us to confirm the exact incident that you are referring to, but I can tell you that only conventional munitions were used during the Gulf War in 1991."
Posted by:Fred

#2  "in 1989 there were 32 cases of tumours... in the Basra area"
Obviously some under-reporting going on there.
Posted by: Darrell   2008-10-11 16:56  

#1  Kinda reminds me of the wild claims from a couple years ago, by an (italian as well) antiwar ngo that the US had used white phosporous as a terror weapon during the first fallujah battle (proof being pics of bodies with the flesh supposedly "charred" while clothes remained intact, an attribute non-sensically attributed to phosphorus-based incendiary weapons), as well as micro-nukes (proof being night pics of mushrooming explosions). The first claim at least was propagated by french teevee in one popular infoshow.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2008-10-11 15:33  

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