A certain blog (I won't waste my bandwidth to mention which one) is yammering on about how the reports of the chem weapons site near Najaf were false and how a bunch of blogs who linked the original story didn't come back later to say "oops". For instance, here.
From what I read today, it sounds like "oops" would be a bit premature.
Of greatest interest to intelligence officials is information being provided by an Iraqi general who was a senior official there and who surrendered to American forces when they entered the complex about four days ago. Officials said the general, who claims not to have had any involvement in Iraq's chemical warfare program, told military intelligence analysts that there were special bunkers and underground tunnels in the compound that neither he nor other senior staff were permitted to enter.In addition, a site survey team found a biological hazard sign on a wooden pallet with a crate in bunker No. 36, and markings on other crates in bunker No. 37 indicating "CN-1," which is sometimes used to identify riot control agents. They also found wax on the surface of an artillery shell, a substance used at times in shells containing chemical agents. The soldiers and experts also found 40 Soviet-style gas masks with extra filters.
Hydraulic triple-locked doors barred the entrance to some of the more than 100 bunkers in the three-square-mile complex, much of which is protected by an electrical fence and trenches.
Sure, they haven't found anything.
Yet.
(NY Times link via The Corner.)
