Saddam's WMDs
MathewK writing at
A Western Heart talks about the weapons found in Fallujah:
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'Stunning' arms haul in Fallujah
US marines combing the Iraqi city of Fallujah after a major offensive say they found weapons stocks sufficient to mount an insurgency across the country. The "stunning" finds included mortars, bomb-making equipment, grenades and rockets, officials said. The biggest haul was made at a mosque complex in the east of the city. Soldiers also found a house which contained a laboratory and instructions on how to make anthrax and blood agents, an Iraqi official said.
bq. Marine commanders said troops moving from house to house had discovered large numbers of weapons stores, including stocks of up to 700 mortar shells. Kalashnikov rifles, ammunition, rocket-propelled grenades and heavy cannon have also been found throughout the city, officers said. Weapons caches, many in the south of Fallujah - the last area taken by the marines - were often marked by a brick suspended on a piece of string outside a house, they added.
bq. "The amount of weapons was in no way just to protect a city," said Maj Jim West, a Marine intelligence officer. "There was enough to mount an insurgency across the country," he added.
The WMDs will be found in Syria - we saw convoys leaving Iraq just before the coalition invasion. Syria??? We are watching...
Posted by DaveH at November 25, 2004 8:57 PM