[lbo-talk] One for the Circular File

Leigh Meyers leighcmeyers at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 28 22:20:22 PST 2004


In about 6 column inches, this story totally disintegrates:

"Soldiers from the Iraqi National Guard found a chemical laboratory that was used to prepare deadly explosives and poisons," Minister of State Kassim Daoud told a news conference.

"But they said there was no indication the lab was used to produce chemical weapons."

"It was not clear whether Daoud was referring to the same laboratory. Marines said on Thursday they were not aware of any additional laboratories being discovered, and were skeptical that evidence had been found of the manufacture of chemical weapons."

However, that doesn't stop: washingtonpost.com Iraqi Official: Chemical Weapons Lab Found in Fallujah Or: Reuters Thursday, November 25, 2004; 9:37 AM http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12361-2004Nov25.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq

BAGHDAD, Nov. 25 -- A laboratory for the manufacture of chemical weapons has been found in Fallujah, an Iraqi minister said on Thursday, but Marines in the city said they were not aware of any such discovery.

On Wednesday, Marines in Fallujah said they had found a banner of the insurgent group led by Jordanian al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi [...] ======



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