Thread: Weapons of mass destruction, unburied in Iraq

How soon do we forget?

Uncovered Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Iraqi jet, an advanced Russian MiG-25 Foxbat, was found buried in the sand after an informant tipped off U.S. . troops.

The MiG was dug out of a massive sand dune near the Al Taqqadum airfield by U.S. Air Force recovery teams. The MiG was reportedly one of over two dozen Iraqi jets buried in the sand, like hidden treasure,
waiting to be recovered at a later date. Contrary to what some in the major media have reported, not all the jets found were from the Gulf War era.



The Russian-made MiG-25 Foxbat being recovered by U.S. Air Force troops in the photos is an advanced reconnaissance version never before seen in the West and is equipped with sophisticated electronic warfare devices.

U.S. Air Force recovery teams had to use large earth-moving equipment to uncover the MiG, which is over 70 feet long and weighs nearly 25 tons.

The Foxbat is known to be one of Iraq's top jet fighters. The advanced electronic reconnaissance version found by the U.S. Air Force is currently in service with the Russian air force. The MiG is capable of flying at speeds of over 2,000 miles an hour, or three times the speed of sound, and at altitudes of over 75,000 feet.

The recovery of the advanced MiG fighter is considered to be an intelligence coup by the U.S. Air Force.. The Foxbat may also be equipped with advanced Russian- and French-made electronics that were sold to Iraq during the 1990's in violation of a U..N. ban on arms sales to Baghdad.

The buried aircraft at Al Taqqadum were covered in camouflage netting, sealed and, in many cases, had their wings removed before being buried more than 10 feet beneath the Iraqi desert.

X Marks the Spot



However, in recent days the critics have fallen silent as word quietly leaked from I raq that major discoveries have already been made and are now being documented completely. Bush administration officials are keeping any such discoveries secret for the moment.



The discovery of the buried Iraqi jet fighters illustrates the problem faced by U.S. inspection teams searching Iraq for weapons of mass destruction. Iraq is larger in size than California, and the massive deserts south and west of Baghdad were used by Saddam Hussein to hide weapons during the first Gulf war.

U.S. intelligence sources have already uncovered several mass grave burial sites in the open deserts with an estimated 10,000 dead hidden there. In addition, Iraq previously hid SCUD missiles, chemical weapons and biological warheads by burying them under the desert sand.

U.N. inspection teams found the weapons in the early 1990's after detailed information of the exact locations was obtained.

Top U.S. weapons inspector Dr. David Kay is known to favor human intelligence as the primary means to find Iraq's hidden treasure trove of weapons and secrets.

While there are rumors of Iraqi chemical and biological weapons being shipped to nearby Syria, the weapons may very well still remain inside Iraq buried under the vast desert wastelands.


Some critics of the Bush administration have claimed that the inability of U.S.. forces to uncover weapons of mass destruction is proof that the president misled the nation into the war with Iraq.




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What does this have to do with illegal immigration??? But yet very interesting....

Moving to other topics.

Thanks MD.
I wasn't meant to go in Discussions. I think it was by habit

Sometimes its hard to stay on topic...everything is so intertwined.

I don't call a few 100 lb bombs weapons of mass distructions. When they get in fighst in the Middle East, they regulary lob those at each other. Remember them landing in Isreal during the first Gulf War?

When we went into this war, it was implied that there were Nukes (Bush called them "New Clear Weapons"), weapons grade Anthrax, chemical weapons and dirty bombs.

Those planes are no big secret. During the Gulf War, Sadam lined them up around Babalon and other holy sights to keep us from blowing them up.

I'm glad our soldiers are over their gaining control of the Iraqi arms and equipment because it doesn't need to fall in to the hads of the left over Bath party members and nutty radicals.

Dixie

Originally Posted by Dixie

I don't call a few 100 lb bombs weapons of mass distructions. When they get in fighst in the Middle East, they regulary lob those at each other. Remember them landing in Isreal during the first Gulf War?

When we went into this war, it was implied that there were Nukes (Bush called them "New Clear Weapons"), weapons grade Anthrax, chemical weapons and dirty bombs.

Those planes are no big secret. During the Gulf War, Sadam lined them up around Babalon and other holy sights to keep us from blowing them up.

I'm glad our soldiers are over their gaining control of the Iraqi arms and equipment because it doesn't need to fall in to the hads of the left over Bath party members and nutty radicals.

Dixie

Every picture you see there, and more was buried and thy're not finished.

Originally Posted by mkfarnam

Thanks MD.
I wasn't meant to go in Discussions. I think it was by habit

No problem MK.
It seems to me I saw that pic of the jet years ago though.
I was talking to a guy who was over there and he said you wouldn't believe the stuff they had found buried, they had to build sites to store it all.

I don't doubt Saddam had weapons.

I just don't see these as 'that mushroom shaped cloud' or 'nuclear weapons capable of launching an attack on us in 45 minutes', or the biological weapons that 'we know where they are, we know how many they are, and the red 'x' marks the spot' type thing that led us into this war.

I didn't read the whole story, but did they find biological or nuclear weapons?

What kind of Weapons of mass destruction did they find?

Bush's term was 'new-cue-lar'...