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ABC News - IAEA Says only 3 tons of high explosives left at Al QaQuaa when last checked
ABC World News Tonight | 10/27/2004 | Martha Radditz

Posted on 10/27/2004 4:18:45 PM PDT by hadrian

I looked to see if anyone else had posted this - I apologize if I missed it - about 8 minutes into ABC World News Tonight, Martha Radditz ended up her report on the missing explosives with words to this effect:

Peter, late breaking information from IAEA is that when they last inspected the Al QAQaa facility in (January? March?) 2003, there were not 180 tons of high explosives, but only 3 tons.

She did qualify that I think by stating a particular type of high explosive - either MX(?) or the other of the two types, but whatever it was, sounds like there might have been a lot less left to be "missing" at any time the US forces could have been there.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaqaa; ammogate; bush; cbs; explosives; iraq; kerry; nyt; nytrogate
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To: hadrian

This story was a planned lie from the beginning, just as the Rather's memo-gate was.

The lib/dems know it is a lie. Even Kerry does. Yet, all day today, he has been out yelling it again and again.

Why?

== Tell a big enough lie or lie enough times, and part of it is bound to stick. ==

That is all Kerry wants--some of the lie to stick and maybe sway a few more votes his way.


21 posted on 10/27/2004 4:27:56 PM PDT by TomGuy (His VN crumbling, he says 'move on'. So now, John Kerry is running on Bob KerrEy's Senate record.)
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To: Rokke

I always thought J Fing Kerry was 377 tons short of a full load.


22 posted on 10/27/2004 4:28:02 PM PDT by embedded_rebel
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To: hadrian
So it looks like the IAEA checked while Saddam was removing the materials and did nothing. It was the responsibility of the United Nations to destroy the explosives, and as usual, the UN failed.

Now remember that John Kerry is running on a platform of giving this incompetent organization even more "responsibility".
23 posted on 10/27/2004 4:28:42 PM PDT by counterpunch (The CouNTeRPuNcH Collection - www.counterpunch.us)
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To: backhoe

THIS IS A HUGE SET OF LINKS, I CANT EVEN GO THROUGH THEM ALL.

But we may not need to - if the ABC News pans out, that only 3 tons remained, they will have proven this WHOLE STORY TO BE A DUD. 3 tons, out of 600,000 TONS That was in Iraq. No wonder the 101st didnt find anything - proof it wasnt there. Now we still have the curious IAEA statements that imply it was lost after their last inspection, so we have to cross check but ...

IF TRUE, TIME TO BUY BUSH FUTURES ON THE PRESIDENTIAL MARKET TRADING ... IF THIS IS TRUE, KERRY IS TOAST!!!


24 posted on 10/27/2004 4:29:04 PM PDT by WOSG (George W Bush / Dick Cheney - Right for our Times!)
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To: embedded_rebel

I always thought J Fing Kerry was 377 tons short of a full load.

LOL!


25 posted on 10/27/2004 4:29:34 PM PDT by WOSG (George W Bush / Dick Cheney - Right for our Times!)
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To: hadrian

Is Peter Jennings throwing a tantrum?


26 posted on 10/27/2004 4:30:44 PM PDT by OldFriend (It's the soldier, not the reporter who has given US freedom of the press)
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To: backhoe

Thank you for these extensive resources.


27 posted on 10/27/2004 4:31:04 PM PDT by Friend of thunder (No sane person wants war, but oppressors want oppression.)
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To: hadrian

If true, this is very good news--problem is 3 tons is still 3 tons, and the Kerry people/MSM will now go "6000 POUNDS MISSING!!!" But at least this puts Kerry on the defensive about his rush to cast judgement.


28 posted on 10/27/2004 4:31:26 PM PDT by ctv1116
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To: noname07718

Did anyone ever ask Al Gore just how big his lockbox was?? And just where is that lock box? This may answer the missing explosive question.


29 posted on 10/27/2004 4:33:00 PM PDT by forward
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To: backhoe

Wow! Thanks for the post. Kind of one-stop shop for information.

But, do try and get out of the house more :)


30 posted on 10/27/2004 4:33:04 PM PDT by TexanByBirth
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To: hadrian

Exactly what sorts of idiots, nincompoops and goofballs are running the IAEA?


31 posted on 10/27/2004 4:33:14 PM PDT by Califelephant (Senator Kerry is full of Qaqaa.)
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To: the Real fifi

Hey fifi, where'd you go. You can't just walk in, drop a turd in the livingroom and then leave without explaining yourself.


32 posted on 10/27/2004 4:33:20 PM PDT by Rokke
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To: hadrian

Now this IS interesting! LOLOL

Poor Kerry; going to end up with egg all over his face.


33 posted on 10/27/2004 4:33:31 PM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed)
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To: hadrian

On my blog I hae links to the IAEA testimony in feb 2003, where they DID mention that all the RDX had been moved from this site. but the other type (MNX?) was verified as still there according to january 2003 site visit.


34 posted on 10/27/2004 4:33:32 PM PDT by WOSG (George W Bush / Dick Cheney - Right for our Times!)
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To: hadrian

bump


35 posted on 10/27/2004 4:33:40 PM PDT by RippleFire ("It was just a scratch")
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To: WOSG

This is a collosal blockbuster if true...not just because it makes Kerry look like the idiot that he is.

If the explosives were under seal and not to be touched or moved, and the IAEA went back in March and found only 3 tons, THEN WHY DIDN'T THEY RAISE HOLY HELL IN MARCH 2003 AT THE U.N. AND ON THE WORLD STAGE THAT SADDAM WAS PLAYING GAMES WITH PROSCRIBED WEAPONS??????


36 posted on 10/27/2004 4:34:47 PM PDT by Cousin Eddie
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To: ctv1116

That's 2.7 million grams of explosives that could be used against us!


37 posted on 10/27/2004 4:34:48 PM PDT by July 4th (You need to click "Abstimmen")
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To: hadrian

This was all supposed to come out after the 60 Minutes hit and Kerry election. They knew the story was bogus and would unravel after 48 hours. The question is when and how do we get rid of CBS, the NYT and the rest of the MSM?


38 posted on 10/27/2004 4:35:21 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth...)
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To: embedded_rebel
I always thought J Fing Kerry was 377 tons short of a full load.

hehehe.

He could scrape that much make-up off his face the way it is caked on his face to hide the wrinkles.
39 posted on 10/27/2004 4:35:22 PM PDT by TomGuy (His VN crumbling, he says 'move on'. So now, John Kerry is running on Bob KerrEy's Senate record.)
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To: Josh in PA
380 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES JUST BLEW UP IN KERRY'S DROOPING FACE!!!

Josh, Josh, Josh. I am surprised at you. How inappropriate.

Have you seen Denzel's movie "Man on Fire" ? (Great movie, very violent)

He is ex-CIA guarding a little girl in Mexico. She is kidnapped and he has vowed to find them all and to kill them.

He catches up with one man. They are under a bridge and the man is naked, tied down to the hood of his car. Denzel needs information. To get the information, Denzel has planted explosions in the man's rectum (I told you it was violent.)

Denzel gets the info, Bad man gets the Big Bang.

So Josh, learn from the master:

380 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES JUST BLEW UP IN KERRY'S DROOPING ARSE!!!

Just having a little fun-hope you are not offended...

40 posted on 10/27/2004 4:35:51 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights (Truth is not Partisan)
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