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2014-06-20 Iraq

ISIL Seizes Saddam-Era Non Existant Chemical Weapons Facility

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Posted by AnyoneCanBlog 2014-06-20 00:18|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 Special Commission Team Supervises Destruction of Iraq's Chemical Weapon Arsenal

The first chemical weapons destruction team of the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) supervised the destruction of 463 122mm rockets which were loaded with sarin, a nerve agent. Destruction activities took place at the Khamissiyah Storage Site, 400 km. south of Baghdad, from 21 February to 24 March 1992.

Incineration of the rockets following the explosion. 21 February 1992, Khamissiyah, Iraq. 1994 report with summary at para 8 of items destroyed at Al Muthanna.

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Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-20 03:24|| 2014-06-20 03:24|| Front Page Top

#2 impossible to safely move the materials
Impossible for a fatcat stateside bureaucrat...

Posted by Skidmark 2014-06-20 07:05|| 2014-06-20 07:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Not to worry! The State Department has confidence we should not worry!

Posted by Bobby 2014-06-20 07:23|| 2014-06-20 07:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Good thing these aren't the sort of a-holes who would gas a bunch of not believers enough and try to frame a target.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-06-20 10:38|| 2014-06-20 10:38|| Front Page Top

#5 CIA Report on same.

Posted by Squinty 2014-06-20 12:21|| 2014-06-20 12:21|| Front Page Top

#6 the site includes old and contaminated chemical weapons

Hmmmm...guys, these are people who have no problem martyring themselves to kill other people. Why would they be concerned about dying from rad exposure just to make sure a lot of apostates do the same?

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-06-20 13:29|| 2014-06-20 13:29|| Front Page Top

#7 ..and residual exposure...

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-06-20 13:30|| 2014-06-20 13:30|| Front Page Top

#8 "We do not believe that the complex contains materials of military value"

CNS: Although the damaged Bunker 13 at Muthanna contained thousands of sarin-filled rockets, the presence of leaking munitions and unstable propellant and explosive charges made it too hazardous for UNSCOM inspectors to enter. Because the rockets could not be recovered safely, Iraq declared the munitions in Bunker 13 as "destroyed in the Gulf War".

Destroyed. By non-recovery. Still lying inside Bunker 13. But the spreadsheet has a tick for destroyed, so like that they no longer exist, pose no threat, and are not of military value.

Posted by mossomo 2014-06-20 19:42|| 2014-06-20 19:42|| Front Page Top

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