WP: Iraq chem lab new, dating some time after U.S.-led invasion

[DemsUnited]

Iraqi Chemical Stash Uncovered
Post-Invasion Cache Could Have Been For Use in Weapons

By Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, August 14, 2005; Page A18

BAGHDAD, Aug. 13 -- U.S. troops raiding a warehouse in the northern city of Mosul uncovered a suspected chemical weapons factory containing 1,500 gallons of chemicals believed destined for attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces and civilians, military officials said Saturday.

Monday's early morning raid found 11 precursor agents, "some of them quite dangerous by themselves," a military spokesman, Lt. Col. Steven A. Boylan, said in Baghdad.

Combined, the chemicals would yield an agent capable of "lingering hazards" for those exposed to it, Boylan said. The likely targets would have been "coalition and Iraqi security forces, and Iraqi civilians," partly because the chemicals would be difficult to keep from spreading over a wide area, he said.

Boylan said the suspected lab was new, dating from some time after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. The Bush administration cited evidence that Saddam Hussein's government was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction as the main justification for the invasion. No such weapons or factories were found.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/13/AR2005081300530.html

[IndianaGreen]

1. And the chemicals came from (drum roll).. IRAN!

This is so contrived it is almost laughable. Bush invaded Iraq in order to force Iraqis to manufacture poison gas.

[asjr]

3. Something surely stinks here, and I do not

think it is chemical. They are becoming borderline farcical.

[bahrbearian]

2. I heard the lab contained vast quantities of ..

Hydrogen, Oxygen. Calcium and other chemicals.

[GCP]

4. This is like all the other stories of WMDs

It will be debunked in a week, bank on it.

[mikehiggins]

5. If this is a new facility, does that mean the insurgency is weakening?

I mean, its in its last throes, right? Almost over and done with, right? All we have to do is stay the course, right?

Wait till they find the scuds the sunnis are building in Baghdad.