WMD hunters ambushed in Baghdad

WMD hunters ambushed in Baghdad
By P. Mitchell Prothero
Published 4/26/2004 1:32 PM


BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 26 (UPI) -- An explosion that killed al least three U.S. personnel in Baghdad was an ambush of a top-secret unit detailed to search for weapons of mass destruction, United Press International has confirmed.

The military initially claimed that a detail of U.S. Army soldiers were about to raid a suspected bomb making factory when two were killed after an explosion. Several Iraqis in the area at the time told UPI that the building exploded when the soldiers tried to enter the house.

Although coalition spokesman Maj. Gen. Mark Kimmitt admitted that the owner of the home "was suspected of supplying chemical agents," he refused to confirm that the troops belonged to the top secret Iraq Survey Group, a task force of Central Intelligence Agency, Special Forces soldiers and other biological, chemical and nuclear weapons experts.

Kimmett would only say that, "The inspection was by a number of coalition forces."

But at the scene of the blast in Baghdad's Waziriya district -- which destroyed four military Humvee vehicles -- UPI witnessed clear evidence that the troops belonged to the ISG, including credentials looted from the vehicles by local Iraqi youth.

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more: http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040426-012022-4432

Bull Manure!!!!

:shrug:

Also when I read this story posted from Al Jazeera this morning it had the deaths at 12.

What's really bad is how loose security is, this event was more than likely leaked days ago allowing perps to rig the place to blow up.

Bad bad news for our guys over there, they're being ratted out.

and had a LittLe accident?

it does seem strange , as someone pointed out on another thread, that the vehicles were backed up to the building. Making a delivery?

Or so it seems to me.

When everyday there are reports of successful ambushes like this, I think it just helps to convince people of Iraq that maybe we're not that tough and I don't think that's the message we were trying to send.

But of course, with this Admin, the result they get is usually the opposite of what they planned. That's even granting that they even have a plan.

What a f'd up mess. We need to get the UN in and the US out.

:shrug:

I know I know, the rules require that it be verbatim.

They were looking in a building which was suspected of having chemical explosives....like C-4, etc. Not banned chemical toxins.

Typical pravda

because if they didn't have WMD they wouldn't have bombed but because they bombed they must HAVE HAD WMD....... by the way did I show you my crack vile that represents what anthrax WOULD look like?