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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Doug R who wrote (2036)	3/23/2003 8:48:13 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

:-) you cynic!!! (Lest you think I was calling you names, I think cynicism is a Good Thing)

To: Doug R who wrote (2036)	3/23/2003 8:54:03 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

Reports: Huge Iraqi Chemical Arms Factory Found 3 minutes ago Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo! story.news.yahoo.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. forces on Sunday found what they believe to be a "huge" chemical weapons factory near the Iraqi city of Najaf, about 100 miles south of Baghdad, U.S. networks and the Jerusalem Post reported. Fox News and the Jerusalem Post, which had a reporter traveling with the U.S. forces, cited unidentified Pentagon (news - web sites) officials as saying the facility was seized by the First Brigade of the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division as they advanced north toward Baghdad. About 30 Iraqi troops, including their commanding general, surrendered to U.S. forces as they overtook the installation, apparently used to produce chemical weapons, the Jerusalem Post reported. One soldier was lightly wounded when a booby-trap exploded as he was clearing the sheetmetal-lined facility, the report said. The 100-acre complex is adjacent to military barracks and surrounded by an electric fence, the report said. It was not immediately clear what chemicals were being produced at the facility, but both reports said the Iraqis had tried to camouflage the facility so it looked like the surrounding desert and would not be spotted from the air. ABC News cited one unidentified official as saying of the captured Iraqi general: "He is a potential gold mine of evidence about the weapons Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) said he does not have." Asked to comment on the reports, a Central Command official said in an e-mail: "While media reports are premature, we are looking into sites of interest." I left nothing out. The story as I posted the link was exactly as was written