Missiles With "Nuclear Heads" Found In Iraq

UPI reports:

Iraqi security reportedly discovered three s carrying nuclear heads concealed in a concrete trench northwest of Baghdad, official sources said Wednesday.

The official daily al-Sabah quoted the sources as saying the s were discovered in trenches near the city of Tikrit, the hometown of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

"The three s were discovered by chance when the Iraqi security forces captured former Baath party official Khoder al-Douri who revealed during interrogation the location of the s saying they carried nuclear heads," the sources said.

They pointed out that the s were actually discovered in the trenches lying under six meters of concrete and designed in a way to unable sophisticated sensors from discovering nuclear radiation.

With all the false alarms about WMDs being found in Iraq I'm viewing this cautiously.

UPDATE: Betsy and Glen are skeptical, as I am. So is Will Collier at VodkaPundit.

Kevin at Wizbang wonders where the "nuclear heads" came from.

Wind Rider at Silent Running, while also skeptical asks "why do you bury something that just barely crosses the line violating 1441 (for a range violation) under 6 meters (18 feet!) of concrete?"

UPDATE II: Well that didn't take long. Reuters reports:

Iraq's Interior Ministry dismissed as "std" a report in a local newspaper on Wednesday that said three nuclear s had been found near the town of Tikrit.
A senior U.S. military official told reporters he had no information on the report in the newspaper al-Sabah. He said officials were checking the report.

If the report were accurate officials wouldn't have to be checking it.

Thanks to reader KH of my entry at The Command Post for the headsup.

Comments

[buzz]

Silly neo-cons? Suppose you can give me a definition of a "neo-con"? Don't suppose you are just mindlessly repeating something you read? What are the odds? Oh, and the "War President" doesn't need bailing out either. I suppose you probably read that somewhere also.

[Scytherius]

You silly neo-cons, read this link. Sorry. No nukes to bail out the War President

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=551156

[Pixy Misa]

As Kevin says, if it does pan out, where the hell did he get nuclear warheads from? We know he never got close to making them himself. The only country in the Middle East with nukes is Israel, and I somehow doubt that is the source. North Korea might have one or two, but would they sell their ace-in-the-hole? India and Pakistan are more worried about each other than about bringing in a few bucks. The US and UK we can rule out. One would certainly hope we can rule out France, and China hasn't been acting that stupid lately.

So, did the Russians lose track of some of theirs? If so, we have a hell of a problem.

I think the whole thing is probably a false alarm, but...

[Retread]

But if it turns out to be true, Bush will be accused of timing the story to deflect attention from Kerry and the convention.