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Nuclear missiles discovered in hidden Iraqi bunkers
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U.S. Army troops conducting patrols in Iraq made a startling discovery yesterday, North Korean-made nuclear missiles hidden in underground bunkers in Iraq's western desert. Army experts have confirmed the missiles contain nuclear material. The discovery is considered to be the long-anticipated "smoking gun" of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
U.S. intelligence officials say documents were also found which show the missiles were supplied to Iraq by North Korea in the late 1990's. The missiles are part of a large stockpile of former Iraqi military munitions uncovered in over a dozen heavily reinforced and well-concealed concrete bunkers. Intelligence officials also confirmed that the missiles were apparently designed as so-called "dirty bombs" capable of spreading dangerous radioactive material over wide areas of an intended target.
White House officials released a statement saying that Iraq was apparently able to capitalize on a period of lax enforcement in the 1990's when the Clinton administration's weapons monitoring program was run by White House interns who were focused on the former President's own personal weapon of mass destruction.
President Bush was quick to comment saying former President Clinton recklessly directed American attention toward his own desire to "go nucular."
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/USNEWS/03/31...ort/index.html
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