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FrodosPet

(5,169 posts)
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 04:52 PM Jun 2014

The WMD lie returns to haunt Iraq

I realize this is from a site we are not supposed to reference, but I thought it was important to link it not as a source of truth, but as a heads up to the excuses for war sure that are sure to come.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10910868/Iraq-crisis-Obama-may-launch-air-strikes-without-Congress-amid-calls-for-Maliki-to-go-live.html

Isis storms Saddam-era chemical weapons complex in Iraq

The jihadist group bringing terror to Iraq overran a Saddam Hussein chemical weapons complex on Thursday, gaining access to disused stores of hundreds of tonnes of potentially deadly poisons including mustard gas and sarin.

Isis invaded the al-Muthanna mega-facility 60 miles north of Baghdad in a rapid takeover that the US government said was a matter of concern.

The facility was notorious in the 1980s and 1990s as the locus of Saddam’s industrial scale efforts to develop a chemical weapons development programme.

Isis has shown ambitions to seize and use chemical weapons in Syria leading experts to warn last night that the group could turn to improvised weapons to carry out a deadly attack in Iraq.

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The WMD lie returns to haunt Iraq (Original Post) FrodosPet Jun 2014 OP
seriously? riverwalker Jun 2014 #1
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