Central Command cautions everyone to treat every initial report of WoMD as "false" until it has been proven otherwise through thorough testing, but yes, the site was discovered apparently when locals took the Marines to it "to show them what was hidden from the inspectors". An underground complex of "as many as a hundred buildings, 14 of which with radioactive reading that went odff the scales."
Also discovered today: a military truck at a construction site/missle site with a hidden compartment inside that from all descriptions, could be a mobile biological weapons lab or loader. It will not be known for sure that the truck is yet another "smoking gun" until testing can determine the contents of the containers inside the hidden compartment but from all accounts of the mechanisms inside, it certainly looks as if it could be.
Could be does not mean
is.
What's scary about the truck is that someone came onto the construction site/missle site and tried to drive it away at the same time all the looting was going on so it isn't known if the driver knew what he had (the keys were left in the vehicles on the site). It makes me wonder how many people have taken trucks with similar compartments into residential areas either as prizes of looting, or knowing what the trucks contain.
The contents from barrels outside of Karbala, which were found Monday, only just reached U.S. testing labs today meaning whatever they held remains unconfirmed until testing is complete.
oopsie! 14
buildings, not rooms as originally stated. WOW.
I hope this one turns out to be NOT WoMD!!!
[ 04-11-2003, 08:41 AM: Message edited by: Lil Lil ]