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The following are excerpts from the televised confessions of Muayed Al-Nasseri, who commanded Saddam Hussein's "the Army of Muhammad" throughout 2004. The confessions were aired by the Iraqi TV channel that operated from the UAE, Al-Fayhaa TV, on January 14, 2005. Interrogator: What is your name? Muayed Al-Nasseri: Colonel Muayed Yassin 'Aziz 'Abd Al-Razaq Al-Nasseri, commander of the Army of Muhammad, one of the resistance factions in Iraq. The Army of Muhammad was founded by Saddam Hussein after the fall of the regime, on April 9, 2003. At first, Yasser Al-Shab'awi was put in charge, until his captured in July...

“Special Message to Jarret Brachman” and “Brachman’s Response” SNIPPET: "Special Message to Jarret Brachman Peace be upon those who follow the righteous path. Listen to me, you son of an infidel woman: You follow what we write in our jihadist forums and give it to your bosses." SNIPPET: "We are fighting you, O enemy, not for the land and not for the fuel… we are fighting you because our religion demands us to defend ourselves and to uphold our religion against those who assault it. Searching within this religion would be better for you than searching for a way to...

LOS ANGELES — Explosives were looted from the Al-Qaqaa (search) ammunitions site in Iraq while outnumbered U.S. soldiers assigned to guard the materials watched helplessly, soldiers told the Los Angeles Times. About a dozen U.S. troops were guarding the sprawling facility in the weeks after the April 2003 fall of Baghdad when Iraqi looters raided the site, the newspaper quoted a group of unidentified soldiers as saying. U.S. Army reservists and National Guardsmen witnessed the looting and some soldiers sent messages to commanders in Baghdad requesting help, but received no reply, they said.

videotape made by a television crew with American troops when they opened bunkers at a sprawling Iraqi munitions complex south of Baghdad shows a huge supply of explosives still there nine days after the fall of Saddam Hussein, apparently including some sealed earlier by the International Atomic Energy Agency. The tape, broadcast on Wednesday night by the ABC affiliate in Minneapolis, appeared to confirm a warning given earlier this month to the agency by Iraqi officials, who said that hundreds of tons of high-grade explosives, powerful enough to bring down buildings or detonate nuclear weapons, had vanished from the site...

A 5 Eyewitness News crew in Iraq may have been just a door away from materials that could be used to detonate nuclear weapons. The evidence is in videotape shot by Reporter Dean Staley and Photographer Joe Caffrey at or near the Al Qaqaa munitions facility. The video shows a cable locking a door shut. That cable is connected by a copper colored seal. A spokesperson for the International Atomic Energy Agency told 5 Eyewitness News that seal appears to be one used by their inspectors. "In Iraq they were used when there was a concern that this could have...

Updated: 10/28/2004 11:50:09 AM - VIDEO A 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS crew in Iraq shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein was in the area where tons of explosives disappeared, and may have videotaped some of those weapons. The missing explosives are now an issue in the presidential debate. Democratic candidate John Kerry is accusing President Bush of not securing the site they allegedly disappeared from. President Bush says no one knows if the ammunition was taken before or after the fall of Baghdad on April 9, 2003 when coalition troops moved in to the area. Using GPS technology and talking...

Media Alert I'll be on CNBC's Capitol Report tonight talking about Al Qaqaa. I believe the program airs at 6 p.m. central, 7 p.m. eastern. Much bigger media alert to follow later tonight. Posted by Hindrocket at 05:17 PM | Permalink | TrackBack (1)

What Kerry really means about the weapons facility missing explosives is the US troops screwed up. They didn't secure the weapons before the war started. Since the weapons were not there when the 101st Airborne division got there, Kerry's assualt on the military for failing to secure the explosives is once again a slamming assualt against the men and women of the United States Armed Services. He betrayed his fellow soldiers as a young man and he once again has betrayed them by assaulting their performance in their march to Baghdad. John Kerry is a shameful man who America must...

Missile Facilities Al Qa-Qa State Establishment Other Names: Latifiyah Double Base Propellant Plant; Latifiyah SSM Equipment Production Facility, Al Qa-Qa Establishment Salah Al-Din Plant; Salah Al-Din Powder Factory, Khaled Plant, Al Qa-Qa Ammo and Explosives Plant Location: Baghdad, Latifiyah, approximately 60km south of Baghdad Subordinate to: Military Industrialization Commission Primary Function: Production of double-base propellants, nitric acid, explosives. Description: Al Qa-Qa State Establishment was a huge facility located in Latifiyah, adjacent to the Rashid Establishment, Ma'moun Factory. The site contained five main production sub-areas, including those for double-base propellants, explosives, and nitric acids as well as smaller facilities for warhead...

HER dusty file was one of hundreds of thousands of documents stacked in a house in a wealthy neighbourhood of Baghdad. Asma Rasheed married a pilot, lived comfortably in the presidential compound of Saddam Hussein and directed a microbiology programme that was not supposed to exist. Rasheed’s light blue folder has emerged from a huge archive seized by forces loyal to Ahmed Chalabi, the leader of the Iraqi National Congress, which opposed Saddam. The archive — a dark who’s who of Iraq — reveals the tiniest details of blandishments and humiliations by a paranoid regime that shared the Nazis’ obsession...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 03/14/03 - Iraqi Rockets, al-Qaqa, Rafah, Ababil-100, Al Rahad, Youssifiya, Al Samoud, Rasheed, Aziziyah, Ibn Firna, drones, WMD, Al Taje, al-Slam, Tikrit, Al Islaha, Taji, Doura, Kuwaitis, missing children,Terrorist Perp, Valencia, MOAB,Predators BREAKING: Iraqi Rockets BREAKING: al-Qaqa missiles site, Rafah military facility, BREAKING: Ababil-100 missile, Al Rahad missiles BREAKING: Youssifiya - Old retrofitted single stage missiles, Al Samoud missile factory BREAKING: Rasheed - A little welding goes far to fool the UN BREAKING: Aziziyah - missile heads with proven WMD BREAKING: Ibn Firnas military industrial compound - drones for WMD-release, BREAKING: Al...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 01/27/03 - Al Qa Qa, Baghdad, Chamchamal, Sulaymania, Juwesma BREAKING: Baghdad, Iraq - Fleeing helpless Iraqi refugee turned back with his information by Kofi's Klowns. BREAKING: Baghdad, Iraq - Inadvertant visit to Youm al-Nid'a mosque suggests weapons in mosques (Duh!). BREAKING: Inspection: Juwesma BREAKING: Inspection: Al Qa Qa BREAKING: Sulaymania - Freedom of Religion BECAUSE of the USA. BREAKING: Heroes in the Kuwaiti desert. =========== Al Qa Qa =========== At the Al Qa Qa missile facility ~15.5 miles south of Baghdad. New documents and more unaccounted for, and "suddendly found empty", warheads...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 9/29/02 - USS Abraham Lincoln, USS Mount Vernon, Baghdad Democrats, Al-Ameria, Al-Qa Qaa, al-Qa'qa', UK Dossier BREAKING: USS Abraham Lincoln, BREAKING: USS Mount Vernon, BREAKING: Democrats in Baghdad, BREAKING: posters of doubles, Udai at point, Al-Ameria, Al-Qa Qaa, al-Qa'qa', Dossier from UK, ========== Heroes on Patrol ================ A Navy F/A-18 Hornet patrolling the 'no-fly zone' over southern Iraq. On Operation Northern Watch, three Royal Air Force GR-1A Jaguars on sortie 9/19/02. ============ USS Abraham Lincoln ============== Aboard the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, somewhere, F/A-18 E/F Super Hornets sortie. F-14 Tomcats fly reconnaissance....