Jerusalem Post reported earlier today, and Fox News said The Pentagon has confirmed this evening that US troops have captured a large chemical weapons plant in Iraq.

About 30 Iraqi troops, including a general, surrendered today to US forces of the 3rd Infantry Division as they overtook huge installation apparently used to produce chemical weapons in An Najaf, some 150 kilometers (90 miles) south of Baghdad.[...]


The huge 100-acre complex, which is surrounded by a electrical fence, is perhaps the first illegal chemical plant to be uncovered by US troops in their current mission in Iraq. The surrounding barracks resemble an abandoned slum.


It wasn't immediately clear exactly which chemicals were being produced here, but clearly the Iraqis tried to camouflage the facility so it could not be photographed aerially, by swathing it in sand-cast walls to make it look like the surrounding desert. [...]

Let's hope there's many more to come. Can't wait to read the Arab press blow this off as a Zionist/American plot what with it being the Jerusalem Post reporter to be the one on the scene. Maybe we choppered-in the whole complex...the Mossad is GOOD.


Update: The Pentagon seems to be urging caution concerning getting too excited about this find just yet. They probably want to get their specialists in there to determine for sure that it is, indeed a weapons plant, before they end up having to retract a statement. That would look bad. We'll see what they say tomorrow...