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I was trying to find any other MSM that was talking about Drudge's breaking news last night about how the missing plastic explosives splattered all over the front page of the New York Times were missing before U.S. troops arrived in Baghdad, but it would seem that no one is interested in quelling this October surprise.
And then I check (of all the places) CNN and wadda-ya-know? Here it is.
Report: Explosives already gone when U.S. troops arrivedI am actually suprised that CNN is the first up on reporting this.NBC News says its crew was embedded with soldiers at time
(CNN) -- The mystery surrounding the disappearance of 380 tons of powerful explosives from a storage depot in Iraq has taken a new twist, after a network embedded with the U.S. military during the invasion of Iraq reported that the material had already vanished by the time American troops arrived.NBC News reported that on April 10, 2003, its crew was embedded with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division when troops arrived at the Al Qaqaa storage facility south of Baghdad.
While the troops found large stockpiles of conventional explosives, they did not find HMX or RDX, the types of powerful explosives that reportedly went missing, according to NBC.
What is also interesting is that Drudge Report is saying that this was 'broken' by NBC News and yet - there's NOTHING on MSNBC. Curious.
I find that it's the details of the story that make it interesting....
What is also interesting is that the IAEA was notified October 10th about the *cough* missing explosives and decided just now to release this information - ONE WEEK before the U.S. election?
Shit. Why is anyone surprised? Thge only thing the troops were ordered to secure were the oil f
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Mad Mikey said:
Well, there is a distinct difference between you and NEOdork: you are civil dispite not ag
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ruthie said:
Good thing you like me, Mikey. ROFL
Read more in Details Make the StorySorry NEOdork - your opinion(s) aren't worthy enough to grace our presence.
And the co
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The Pirate said:
One would also note the roads in the area were clogged with supply and communications lines all t
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ruthie said:
Embedded Reporter Saw No Explosives Search
NEW YORK - An NBC News report
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Yet even as these facts come out Edwards is still out there saying its George Bush's fault that these explosives got out. So I guess Edwards thinks we should of invaded Iraq sooner.
|| Posted by The Pirate, October 26, 2004 07:44 AM ||Embedded Reporter Saw No Explosives Search
NEW YORK - An NBC News reporter embedded with a U.S. army unit that seized an Iraqi installation three weeks into the war said Tuesday that she saw no signs that the Americans searched for the powerful explosives that are now missing from the site.
Reporter Lai Ling Jew, who was embedded with the Army's 101st Airborne, Second Brigade, said her news team stayed at the Al-Qaqaa base for about 24 hours.
"There wasn't a search," she told MSNBC, an NBC cable news channel. "The mission that the brigade had was to get to Baghdad. That was more of a pit stop there for us. And, you know, the searching, I mean certainly some of the soldiers head off on their own, looked through the bunkers just to look at the vast amount of ordnance lying around.
"But as far as we could tell, there was no move to secure the weapons, nothing to keep looters away."
On Monday night, NBC reported that its embedded crew said U.S. troops did discover significant stockpiles of bombs, but no sign of the missing HMX and RDX explosives.
The NBC report came after the U.N. nuclear agency told the Security Council on Monday about the disappearance of the 377 tons of high explosives, mostly HMX and RDX, which can be used in the kind of car bomb attacks that have targeted U.S. forces.
Iraq blamed "theft and looting ... due to lack of security."
The disappearance raised questions about why the United States didn't do more to secure the Al-Qaqaa facility 30 miles south of Baghdad.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said coalition forces were present in the vicinity of the site both during and after major combat operations, which ended on May 1, 2003. He said they searched the facility but found none of the explosives in question or weapons of mass destruction.
"The forces searched 32 bunkers and 87 other buildings at the facility, but found no indicators of WMD," Whitman said Monday.
That raised the possibility that the explosives had disappeared before U.S. soldiers could secure the site in the immediate invasion aftermath.
However, Iraq's Ministry of Science and Technology told the IAEA the explosives disappeared sometime after coalition forces took control of Baghdad on April 9, 2003.
The NBC team accompanied the 101st Airborne at Al-Qaqaa the following day — on April 10, 2003.
Lai Ling told MSNBC that there was no talk among the 101st of securing the area after they left.
She said the roads were cut off "so it would have been very difficult, I believe, for the looters to get there."
|| Posted by ruthie, October 26, 2004 03:12 PM ||One would also note the roads in the area were clogged with supply and communications lines all the way back to Kuwait. one could alos note that there are limited numbers of paved roads in the countryside of Iraq. One might also note that unmanned aircraft were used to monitor the roads and surrounding areas for anything out of the ordinary. One might also note that it would of takenatleast 38 trucks to move 38-tons of material.
But it could of grown legs and walked off on its own.
|| Posted by The Pirate, October 26, 2004 06:24 PM ||Sorry NEOdork - your opinion(s) aren't worthy enough to grace our presence.
And the colored girls say: 'delete, delete, delete-delete-delete'.....
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, October 28, 2004 02:02 PM ||Good thing you like me, Mikey. ROFL
|| Posted by ruthie, October 28, 2004 02:23 PM ||Well, there is a distinct difference between you and NEOdork: you are civil dispite not agreeing with me on some topics.
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, October 28, 2004 07:15 PM ||Shit. Why is anyone surprised? Thge only thing the troops were ordered to secure were the oil fields. As for the looting, as Runsfeld said, "They're showing the same picture of the same guy with the same vase over and over again." And, "That's what happens in a free society, people loot."
Gotta run. I'm off to Walmart to exercise some "freedom".
d.
|| Posted by deuddersun, October 29, 2004 09:07 PM ||