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Politics : The Liberation of Iraq -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Volsi Mimir who wrote (881)5/5/2003 8:15:35 PM
From: Volsi Mimir  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 908
 
Just one sentence to maybe an interesting story:
U.S. soldiers exploring an elaborate tunnel complex buried deep in the mountains 120 miles north of Baghdad yesterday found an entire oil refinery in the complex. ..

at the very end:
seattletimes.nwsource.com

of note:(same article)
Iraqi scientists, fearful of U.S. arrest, contact U.N.

Several of Saddam Hussein's senior weapons scientists, fearful of their fate if arrested by U.S. forces, have telephoned former U.N. inspectors in Washington, D.C., in recent days seeking guidance on whether and how to give themselves up, the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday.


The Iraqi scientists, including two who helped run Saddam's secret nuclear-weapons program in the 1980s, said they can provide documents and other evidence to assist teams investigating Iraq's efforts to procure sensitive equipment, components and raw materials from Germany and other countries, the newspaper said.