Posted on 10/25/2004 12:32:58 PM PDT by hipaatwo
The New York Times has created a storm of controversy with its lengthy and detailed reporting of 380 tons of high explosives that disappeared from the Al-Qaqaa munitions bunker in Iraq (also CNN):
The Iraqi interim government has warned the United States and international nuclear inspectors that nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives - used to demolish buildings, make missile warheads and detonate nuclear weapons - are missing from one of Iraq's most sensitive former military installations. The huge facility, called Al Qaqaa, was supposed to be under American military control but is now a no man's land, still picked over by looters as recently as Sunday. United Nations weapons inspectors had monitored the explosives for many years, but White House and Pentagon officials acknowledge that the explosives vanished sometime after the American-led invasion last year.
(Excerpt) Read more at captainsquartersblog.com ...
Is this man trying to say that the NYT isn't giving us the whole story?
AP is reporting that we went to the facility in March 2003, and the explosives were there, but we left it unsecured. Their source is somebody anonymous of course in the Pentagon.
Read my previous post about the HMX..Iraq removed UN seal
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1256467/posts?page=3#3
I find it VERY VERY hard to believe we SAW the explosives there, shrugged our shoulders, and moved on.
I think what CQ is saying is that we went to Al-Qaqaa, and saw now IAEA tags on anything, so we left to secure other spots... makes sense...
I find it hard to believe as well. I am thinking that we didn't catalogue what was there. As I pointed out, this is an anonymous source. It does no good for us not to know what is being said though. There is no confirmation by the Pentagon about what this alleged leaker told the AP.
I find it hard to believe as well. I am thinking that we didn't catalogue what was there. As I pointed out, this is an anonymous source. It does no good for us not to know what is being said though. There is no confirmation by the Pentagon about what this alleged leaker told the AP.
< liberal logic > The NYT is playing on our fears, lieing about the danger, misleading the people < / liberal logic >
Tthis smear attempt by the NYT that the DNC is touting is the October suprise that will backfire on them.
"However, that last statement isn't quite accurate. The Administration acknowledged that it disappeared after the last IAEA inspection, which occurred before the invasion."
A small point of clairification....probably part of the WMDs shipped to Syria that was detailed in the Duelfer Report.
Another big point of clairification...This story although printed by the NYT is itself the left arm of the left wing Democrats. This article is timed to be "One of the October Surprises" against the administration. The tactics of the Democrats are plain to see...pump up old stories, or even just plain made up stories from the left wing machine and see what sticks...plan to stump it the very same day, and hope the American public is just too stupid to see through it.
Sorry, didn't work here...
"ElBaradei told the United Nations (news - web sites) in February 2003 that Iraq had declared that "HMX previously under IAEA seal had been transferred for use in the production of industrial explosives, primarily to cement plants as a booster for explosives used in quarrying."
Who's conning who?
plus the Iraqis had moved the stuff because they knew we'd bomb there ... plus it's only a fraction of 1% of all there is that Hanoi John Kerry isn't worried about. Me thinks Kerry just stepped in and tomorrow Bush will slam dunk him for his naivite & politcal opportunism.
Kerry is already blaming GW.
A must read about these "weapons" or lack there of.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1256443/posts
Drudge claimed yesterday on his show that this story was planted by Bush for a 1-2 punch. So maybe your right.
And Americans get sicker and sicker of Kerry's impudent snob, nattering nabob of negativism M.O.
"Al Qaqaa"
Is that pronounced "Al-CaCa?"
And the explanation is 'looters'? I think of looters and I see somebody running with a TV, or a futon, perhaps a Colman Smoker Grill. But 380 tons of explosives?
This puzzle has quite a few pieces missing.
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