http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83821,00.html

 

that was the story from this morning...right now the foxnews embeeded reportor is saying that the marines there believe they have found weapons grade plutonium...they caution that they have to do more testing to be sure and that alot of test in the past have proved false but they have experts on the scene right now and there seems to be alot of optomism that this could be the smoking gun...have to wait and see

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83821,00.html

 

that was the story from this morning...right now the foxnews embeeded reportor is saying that the marines there believe they have found weapons grade plutonium...they caution that they have to do more testing to be sure and that alot of test in the past have proved false but they have experts on the scene right now and there seems to be alot of optomism that this could be the smoking gun...have to wait and see

Carl Prine of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review was one of the first if not the first American reporter to break this story. I was going to post this a couple of days ago but figured what the hell, everybody has their mind made up here. Since baggs when ahead and posted his link here is Prine's story.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83821,00.html

 

that was the story from this morning...right now the foxnews embeeded reportor is saying that the marines there believe they have found weapons grade plutonium...they caution that they have to do more testing to be sure and that alot of test in the past have proved false but they have experts on the scene right now and there seems to be alot of optomism that this could be the smoking gun...have to wait and see

Carl Prine of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review was one of the first if not the first American reporter to break this story. I was going to post this a couple of days ago but figured what the hell, everybody has their mind made up here. Since baggs when ahead and posted his link here is Prine's story.

thanks for that link...foxnews was giving that reporter credit...i wanted to post his link too but i couldnt remember the name of the pittsburgh paper they said he worked for

I do find it interesting that this item has been essentially buried. I guess the networks have had enough of getting burned with the possible WMD stories.

I do find it interesting that this item has been essentially buried.  I guess the networks have had enough of getting burned with the possible WMD stories.

Yeah, also, there are weapons for the 1980s wars that are buried all over the mid-East in Afghanistan, Iran, etc. because groups like the Moujhadeen kept them there.

 

Not saying that this is what that is, but lots of weapons like that etc. have been known to be buried throughout the region.

I'd like to point out this graph from the foxnews.com story.

 

"They went through that site multiple times, but did they go underground? I never heard anything about that," physicist David Albright, a former IAEA Action Team inspector in Iraq from 1992 to 1997, told the Tribune-Review.

 

"The Marines should be particularly careful because of those high readings," he told the paper. "Three hours at levels like that and people begin to vomit. That leads me to wonder, if the readings are accurate, whether radioactive material was deliberately left there to expose people to dangerous levels.

 

"You couldn't do scientific work in levels like that. You would die."

 

Nobody else has picked this up as of 6:30p. CNN radio wasnt carrying it, it isnt on CNN or BBC or even the Drudge Report.

 

I wouldnt be surprised if its true. But I hope it isn't.

AP News Story 6:02 PM EDT

U.S. `discovery' of nuclear materials said to be breach of U.N.-monitored site

 

(Vienna, Austria-AP) -- U-S troops in Iraq may have unknowingly

broken U-N seals meant to control radioactive material.

Some Marines have suggested they uncovered evidence of an active

nuclear weapons program in Iraq. But today, officials said they may

have unwittingly stumbled across known stocks of low-grade uranium.

This week, leaders of a Marine combat engineering unit said they

found a network of laboratories beneath a nuclear research center

south of Baghdad.

But an expert familiar with U-N nuclear inspections told The

Associated Press it was implausible to believe that U-S forces had

uncovered anything new at the site. The official says the Marines

apparently broke U-N seals designed to ensure the materials aren't

diverted for weapons use -- or end up in the wrong hands.

 

 

(Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

winodj

 

am i reading that AP sotry right....the UN inspectors found this plutonium at this site in iraq and LEFT IT THERE???

 

and if they were that stupid why didnt they let us know about it???

winodj

 

am i reading that AP sotry right....the UN inspectors found this plutonium at this site in iraq and LEFT IT THERE???

 

and if they were that stupid why didnt they let us know about it???

The UN, according to the story, had already sealed it up and everything. It was taken care of. The troops broke the seals.

 

But an expert familiar with U-N nuclear inspections told The

Associated Press it was implausible to believe that U-S forces had

uncovered anything new at the site. The official says the Marines

apparently broke U-N seals designed to ensure the materials aren't

diverted for weapons use -- or end up in the wrong hands.

winodj

 

am i reading that AP sotry right....the UN inspectors found this plutonium at this site in iraq and LEFT IT THERE???

 

and if they were that stupid why didnt they let us know about it???

Baggs,

 

They found nuclear waste that's not weapons grade. From a nuclear power plant. It was not a violation of UN resolutions. It was sealed off. The US military broke those seals.

winodj

 

am i reading that AP sotry right....the UN inspectors found this plutonium at this site in iraq and LEFT IT THERE???

 

and if they were that stupid why didnt they let us know about it???

Baggs,

 

They found nuclear waste that's not weapons grade. From a nuclear power plant. It was not a violation of UN resolutions. It was sealed off. The US military broke those seals.

oh..okay..gottcha ya