hatched by the Jerusalem Post reporter who was with the US soldiers. They also say it's just a pesticide plant. (Now they can explain to me why a pesticide plant would be camouflaged, surrounded by an electric fence, and run by an Iraqi general...)

Also, do the UN sanctions allow Saddam to have cruise missiles?? The following article suggests not.

from The Indepedent (UK):

"...British troops, mopping up Iraqi opposition outside Basra, also discovered cruise missiles and warheads hidden inside fortified bunkers...outside Basra, cases of rockets, giant anti-shipping mines and other ammunition piled in dozens of bunkers were found at the Az-Zubayr Heliport.

Some of the boxes were clearly marked with the names of British manufacturers. One pile of boxes in a store housing rocket-propelled grenades bears the name of Wallop Industries Limited, based in Middle Wallop, Hampshire.

The most disturbing find was two Russian-made Al-Harith anti-shipping cruise missiles (self-propelled guided missiles), each 20ft long and 3ft in diameter, and nine warheads hidden in two enormous reinforced concrete bunkers.

The scale of the find took British forces by surprise and raised questions about the ability of weapons inspectors to cope with the task of scouring such a vast country for prohibited ordinance. The discovery of the missiles ­date-marked 2002 ­came as British troops from the Black Watch Regiment fought to secure the area around Iraq's second city. "