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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 05:15 PM
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Huge weapons cache found
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20031105-042937-3287r.htm

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Soldiers also discovered two rifles, eight fragmentation grenades, a machine gun, one rocket propelled grenade launcher, 300 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition, and three rounds of 14.5mm anti-aircraft ammunition.
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LOL... So HUGE they had to include the above paragraph. From the fair and balanced Washington Times.
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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 05:18 PM
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1. Sounds like my neighbor
He was gonna ride out Y2K in his basement with two cases of chili and a shotgun.
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DoNotRefill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 05:19 PM
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2. It depends on how big those blocks of explosives were...
if they were 2 ounce blocks, that's a pretty small cache. If they were 100 Kg each, that'd make a pretty big boom. Now the det cord....yo can do fun stuff with that.....ummm...never mind.... ;-)
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Noordam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 08:48 PM
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20. Spin a tree with det cord
:evilgrin: or so I have been told.....
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 05:22 PM
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3. I didn;t know that Bubba
moved to Iraq?
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 05:22 PM
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4. LMAO! - They find bigger stashes in California all the time
I've met farmers who have more explosives stashed than that.
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Media_Lies_Daily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-03 03:08 AM
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32. Al Qaeda is stashing arms in California??? Run for your lives!!!...
Those dadburn sleeper-cells will sneak up on you every durn time.
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Ernesto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-03 12:13 PM
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33. That's correct
Edited on Thu Nov-06-03 12:15 PM by Ernesto
A big cell exists down in Fresno, the land of the free(p).
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 05:25 PM
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5. Minus the anti-aircraft rounds and the RPG...
it sounds like something you might find in any house in my neighborhood.
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karlschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 05:31 PM
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8. I was thinking the same thing. Between me and my roommate, we have
about 8 rifles, a couple of shotguns, 4 handguns and I have no idea how much ammo.
:eyes:
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 05:28 PM
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6. "Huge weapons cache", my ass!
Hell, the sheriff busted a guy in Wichita, KS a couple of weeks ago for having 75 machine guns in a bunker, and all he got was community service.

More ace reporting from the Moonie Rag.
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 05:28 PM
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7. Add three cases of beer and that describes a hunting trip
Edited on Wed Nov-05-03 05:30 PM by lunabush
with my brother-in-law.

Why would we be so desperate for news that the Times needs to report that crap?

ok, I went a little overboard with the RPG - my sister simply would not allow that...
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 05:32 PM
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9. I must say
I am impressed, this copy has all the feeling of... wait for
it, yep, the Five O'Clock follies

And yes depends on the size of the blocks, but this also has
that unmistakable feeling of the Five O'Clock follies during the
height of the Nam war... I wonder can we get General Westmoreland
to write some of the copy?

Oh and don't forget taht ammo is NATO... makes me wonder hey
Rummy what ELSE did you sell Hussein in the 1980s
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montana_hazeleyes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 05:40 PM
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13. We used to call him
General Wastemoreland.
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jayfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 08:56 PM
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23. Actually 7.62x39 Is Standard...
ammo for AK-47's. I believe the .223 is NATO. Not sure about the AAA. Other then that I agree.


Jay
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joeunderdog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 05:34 PM
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10. And it was all found in the top drawer of the NRA president's desk.
Does anyone even think the WMD question is even viable anymore?
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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 05:40 PM
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12. WMD? What's that?
All I know is that since Saddam parachuted from the plane before it hit the WTC, we have decided that we must improve the lives of all who live above oil. Even if we have to kill them to do it.
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NickB79 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 05:37 PM
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11. This is huge compared to what?
Definitely not compared to the MILLIONS of pounds of unguarded munitions in dozens of miles-long ammo dumps scattered across Iraq. This is a friggin drop in the bucket compared to what else is scattered around there. They could be using up TONS of explosives PER DAY and still have enough to last the suicide bombers for decades!

Damn, 300 rds of ammo, is that all? I have ~2000 rds of in my ammo locker at home.
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 05:47 PM
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14.  33 blocks of "dangerous" explosives
Well see these were "dangerous" explosives as opposed to the safe kind. Don't they have editors at Moonie Times? A high school English teacher would redline that redundancy (At least the ones I had would have).
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RapidCreek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 09:20 PM
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25. Hehehe good catch!
Highly Flammable Gasoline as opposed to the non-flammable sort, Round Circles as opposed to circles which are not round, Creepy Mooney as opposed to the un-creepy sort. etc. etc.

RC
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DebJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 05:50 PM
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15. Scheduled release date for the (US implanted) WMD find is 10/04
just before the elections
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fishnfla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 05:53 PM
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16. Wayne LaPierre has a place in Iraq?
?
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 06:03 PM
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17. WT hoping people think WMDs found?
Why would they sieze on this one cache of weapons? The army must be finding caches like this almost daily. It appears that the Moonie Times is hoping people read the headline and think WMD - no they wouldn't be that transparent would they?
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regnaD kciN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 07:58 PM
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18. ...and a partridge in a pear tree!
:eyes:
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BloodyWilliam Donating Member (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 08:03 PM
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19. Gasp! A country run by a dictator actually had WEAPONS!
Still no WMD.

All say it with me now...

STILL NO WMD!
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kainah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 08:50 PM
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21. that's a political cartoon
even in the words. My gosh, if anyone knows political cartoonists who struggle for ideas, send them a link to this thread IMMEDIATELY.
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 08:53 PM
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22. i'm glad for our troops that they captured the explosive material.
saves more than a few lives and limbs.
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Chants Donating Member (23 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-03 01:21 PM
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35. Me too
The 33 blocks of explosives, 98 feet of detonation cord, 20 blasting caps and the munitions used in explosive devices were significant.

The two rifles, fragmentation grenades, machine gun, rocket propelled grenade launcher, 7.62mm ammunition, rounds of 14.5mm anti-aircraft ammunition were an after thought.
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RapidCreek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 09:11 PM
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24. Shit I I'm sure your could find a HUGE weapons cache
in quite a few NRA boys basements...if that's the criteria.

RC
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Dirk39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 09:27 PM
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26. Please get your troops out now, if they find another one like this...
the USA will be history pretty soon. I heard that the Pentagon has some weapons, too, but they can't compete with this.
Or, if you can't manage to get your troops out, what about sending Ted Nugent there, the last hope of the free world.
Greetings from Germany,
Dirk
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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 10:49 PM
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28. I would love to see Ted Nugent
playing with his toys in Iraq. That might change his attitude.

Greetings, Dirk :hi:
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UpInArms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 09:31 PM
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27. this article was written for those
that only read the headlines and leave it to someone else to tell them what the news is ...

wonder who that fits?
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mrdmk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 11:40 PM
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29. doting the i's and crossing the t's
“No one was detained.”

Does this mean nobody had a bag (with numbers) placed over his or her head and carted off to the desert?
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Media_Lies_Daily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-03 12:12 AM
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30. Probably dates back to the Iran-Iraq War. By tomorrow, they'll be WMDs.
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aeon flux Donating Member (333 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-03 01:37 AM
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31. 3 lbs or 3 million lbs
Makes no difference.
Small arms are not banned.

Article is misleading. Wow an understatement.
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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-03 12:21 PM
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34. besides the RPG
isn't this roughly the contents of the trunk of that guy stopped for "leering" at one of the Bush Twins the other week? And he was let go with a warning?

this is pathetic.
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