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| Have they finally found a 'weapon of mass destruction' in Iraq? |
| 2010-02-05 |
| Pictures at link-- would like to hear from you who know, what is this thing? Also, the article has a "bias" against Blair -- it is the Daily Mail They have been searching in Iraq for the past nine years, 10 months and 15 days. Today, the hard work finally paid off as soldiers found one of those elusive 'weapons of mass destruction' that Saddam Hussein was supposed to have been hiding. So is it all round to Tony Blair's house for celebratory drinks? Unfortunately the discovery came just a few days late for the former prime minister, who could have used the extraordinary find as proof he was right about Iraq all along during the Chilcot Inquiry. But from the looks of the rocket, it would appear unlikely it could be deployed anywhere in 45 minutes, let alone be fired at the UK, as a certain dossier led us to believe. The bomb is thought to have been buried by Saddam Hussein's regime before the UK and U.S. invasion of Iraq started in 2003. Iraqi guards were as surprised as the rest of us to discover the 'missile' during an operation in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib suburb. It is not yet known whether the seven-metre rocket is armed with a warhead. |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #11 China needs to stop giving weapons to bad guys. I am beginning to think that they do this in order to get us to expend our resources. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-02-05 22:46 |
| #10 You mean these WMDs that everyone ignores? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-02-05 20:48 |
| #9 The SILKWORM is "dual-use" - it took SADDAM only to buy his NUKE, BIOWAR, + CHEMWAR warheads, andor indigenously dev his own while "reverse engineering" to produce Saddamist Iraq's own variant of the 'WORM. In any case, YEAR 2012-N-BEYOND [2013] > I'm expecting the MILTERRS to formally declare their possession and competency in NUCLEAR + OTHER STRATEGIC WEAPONS TECHS. Personally, I'm more concerned about the various MilTerr Groups as a class procuring low-tech [read, $$$ CHEAP + IDIOT-PROOF], "dual-use", NBC-CBRNE-CAPABLE UNGUIDED ROCKETS + MORTAR TUBE, ETC. SYSTEMS than the bulky, $$$ expensive, more Tech-complex MilComSys like SILKWORM + LARGER. RELIABLE, CHEAP, POTENT, COVERT, EASY-TO-OPERATE, + WON'T STOP THE USERS FROM BLOWIN' THEMSELVES TO CAMEL-REENIES, OR WEAR WOMENS' CLOTHING, IFF THEY WANT TO. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-02-05 18:49 |
| #8 The expertise that I encounter at Rantburg sometimes amazes me. |
| Posted by: Mizzou Mafia 2010-02-05 16:54 |
| #7 Yeah, looks like a Silkworm to me, too. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2010-02-05 16:19 |
| #6 Saddam had experimented with a number of guided or cruise missile and unmanned MIG-21 aircraft variants some of which could be slung under a jet and launched at altitude by the host aircraft. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-02-05 15:11 |
| #5 The ignorant stupidity of journalists have no bounds. SS-N-2 Stix then Silkwoorm varianets is similar size but what it is doing hundreds of miles from sea? |
| Posted by: Glush Wittlesbach8127 2010-02-05 14:56 |
| #4 Good call ed. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-02-05 14:50 |
| #3 In case anyone is wondering, the pic looks like a Chinese Silkworm anti-ship missile buried upside down. No chemical weapons there. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-02-05 14:47 |
| #2 The author and her editor really should know the difference between a bomb, a missile, and a rocket, shouldn't they? |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2010-02-05 14:17 |
| #1 MSM: What WMDs? DeadlyNerve Agent Sarin Is Found in Roadside Bomb More importantly, where is the cache? Sarin, Mustard Gas Discovered Separately in Iraq about 80 tons of unaccounted for mustard gas. Of course these people all died of an unfortunate slip and fall accident. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-02-05 13:15 |
