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04-10-03, 04:48 PM
Mobile bio-weapons lab found by U.S. Marines?
Forces near Baghdad stop fleeing truck with hidden area inside
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Posted: April 10, 2003
5:00 p.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
U.S. Marines near the Iraqi capital believe they might have discovered a mobile biological- or chemical-weapons lab, according to Fox News.
Investigators said the vehicle, which looks like a refrigerated truck from the outside, has an internal system that apparently has been used to mix, cool and heat hazardous materials without direct human contact.
Fox News said hazardous materials might have been found inside the truck, which includes guided-missile support equipment and a false internal wall that concealed a remote-controlled electronic pulley-and-winch system and several open bins and containers.
Fox News Channel's Rick Leventhal is embedded with the U.S. Marines in Iraq.
"The inside of the vehicle was made to look like a radar truck, a surface-to-air support vehicle," Leventhal said. "But [the Marines] noticed there was a fake wall inside.
"They opened up the side panel of the vehicle and inside they found what they describe as a 'safe space,' a hidden area where there was an electronic pulley system" and other laboratory equipment.
Said Leventhal: "There was an area someone could use to manipulate hazardous, possible biological or chemical, materials, to move it from one container to another."
Leventhal says he was told it "fit the description of a biological lab" and that the Marines are continuing to investigate to see if it was used to manufacture weapons of mass destruction.
The U.S. forces approached the truck after finding it parked at what appeared to be a construction site. As the Marines drew near, the vehicle pulled away, refusing orders to stop.
The troops fired upon the truck, Fox News said, but there was no information on the driver. Video footage of the scene, however, showed the driver's-door window shot out.
At the site, Marines also found anti-aircraft guns, a surface-to-air missile and several caches of weapons and ammunition.
Sempers,
Roger
Forces near Baghdad stop fleeing truck with hidden area inside
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Posted: April 10, 2003
5:00 p.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
U.S. Marines near the Iraqi capital believe they might have discovered a mobile biological- or chemical-weapons lab, according to Fox News.
Investigators said the vehicle, which looks like a refrigerated truck from the outside, has an internal system that apparently has been used to mix, cool and heat hazardous materials without direct human contact.
Fox News said hazardous materials might have been found inside the truck, which includes guided-missile support equipment and a false internal wall that concealed a remote-controlled electronic pulley-and-winch system and several open bins and containers.
Fox News Channel's Rick Leventhal is embedded with the U.S. Marines in Iraq.
"The inside of the vehicle was made to look like a radar truck, a surface-to-air support vehicle," Leventhal said. "But [the Marines] noticed there was a fake wall inside.
"They opened up the side panel of the vehicle and inside they found what they describe as a 'safe space,' a hidden area where there was an electronic pulley system" and other laboratory equipment.
Said Leventhal: "There was an area someone could use to manipulate hazardous, possible biological or chemical, materials, to move it from one container to another."
Leventhal says he was told it "fit the description of a biological lab" and that the Marines are continuing to investigate to see if it was used to manufacture weapons of mass destruction.
The U.S. forces approached the truck after finding it parked at what appeared to be a construction site. As the Marines drew near, the vehicle pulled away, refusing orders to stop.
The troops fired upon the truck, Fox News said, but there was no information on the driver. Video footage of the scene, however, showed the driver's-door window shot out.
At the site, Marines also found anti-aircraft guns, a surface-to-air missile and several caches of weapons and ammunition.
Sempers,
Roger