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Thursday, October 28, 2004. 10:50pm (AEST) Documents cast doubt on amount of missing explosives The amount of heavy explosives allegedly missing from the Al-Qaqaa weapons depot south of Baghdad may be considerably less than the 377 tons reported by Iraqi authorities, the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News reports. The news channel says it has obtained a confidential document from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) dated January 14, 2003. It says the document shows that IAEA inspectors reported a little more than three tons of RDX explosives at Al-Qaqaa. That is far below the 141 tons the Iraqi Science Ministry...

The chances that enemy forces moved 377 tons of heavy ordnance out of the Al Qaqaa arms facility after U.S. forces arrived in the area are nearly impossible, said Army Col. David Perkins, who commanded the American troops who took the area during major combat operations in Iraq in 2003. Perkins commanded 2nd Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division. A unit under his command, the 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry, entered the depot on April 3, 2003, and defeated the enemy forces there in a two-day battle. The U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency had tagged the explosives at the site and...

John Kerry: The Scott Peterson of Politics By Frank Salvato October 28, 2004 There is one thing John Kerry is consistent on: his propensity for manipulating the truth. From Vietnam to the floor of the senate to the halls of the United Nations, Kerry has stretched and exaggerated to create "the truth" and has done so without compunction. His latest "over the top" invention is his "two-hour meeting with the entire UN Security Council." The crafting of this tale should tarnish his image in the eyes of his supporters, if not we should consider their intelligence highly suspect. Throughout his...

Russia Denies Involvement in Iraq Weapons 1 hour, 46 minutes ago By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press Writer MOSCOW - Russia angrily denied allegations Thursday that Russian forces had smuggled a cache of high explosives out of Iraq (news - web sites) prior to the U.S. invasion in March 2003. Defense Ministry spokesman Vyacheslav Sedov dismissed the allegations as "absurd" and "ridiculous." "I can state officially that the Russian Defense Ministry and its structures couldn't have been involved in the disappearance of the explosives, because all Russian military experts left Iraq when the international sanctions were introduced during the 1991 Gulf...

First event is at the Lake Eola Bandshell downtown Orlando, corner East Washington Street and North Rosalind Ave in 32801 17:30 hrs (5:30 PM National Guard time) Movie "Stolen Honor" will be shown there. Bring any undecideds. (Mapquest for directions) Afterparty at Chapters Restaurant, 358 North Park Ave (corner of Canton) Winter Park 32789 About 8-10 minutes from Bandshell. Best route is I-4 east to Fairbanks Ave East, (about 3 miles,) right turn coming off Interstate. Then about 3 miles east on Fairbanks (over RR tracks,) to left at Park Avenue (at small 7/11) About one mile north on Park...

Kerry's Lies Don't Matter by Bob Redman (27 Oct. 2004) Kerry's lies don't matter to the 45 and more millions of people who are going to vote for him on Tuesday. Nor that he lobbied to get a purple heart for a scratch, bugged out early from Vietnam, committed treason afterward, left one heiress and children to marry another heiress, took campaign money from Vietnamese, Chinese, and Iranians, and will stoop to any lie in a debate or on the stump. His supporters know or sense all of this already. In short, these people identify with him. There will, however,...

Nothing further. Freaking Russians ...

Depending on the turnout (wink, wink), I am beginning to believe that Kerry will conclude one of the most miserable campaigns for President ever by losing in states he "shouldn't" be early on election night. Today a new poll showed again that President Bush is dead even with Senator Kerry in New Jersey. This is unbelievable. Al Gore walked away with New Jersey early in the evening in 2000. But if Kerry loses it my prediction is for Bush to almost run the board. The reasons why Kerry is doing badly in New Jersey is partly not his own doing but his...

A lie is defined as a gross falsification or misrepresentation of the facts, with constant repetition and embellishment to lend credibility or the propaganda technique, as in politics, of using this device. John Kerry's most recent is when he claims that it is a fact that the Al Qua Qua explosives went missing after our troops invaded Iraq. This is certainly not a fact obviously it is debateable but no one knows the answer so when Kerry claims it as a fact that is a lie stated with malice in an attempt to deceive the public. Here are the simple...

Boston -- John Kerry lied, cheated and assisted in violating this state’s Constitution in 2002 and again in 2004 in desperate attempts to force gay marriage upon Massachusetts --- and the entire nation!!! If not elected to the Presidency by the American people, he will never be re-elected by Massachusetts voters to the U.S. Senate. Voters here are finally learning all this about him despite the fact that Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., owner of the New York Times and Boston Globe, is the primary advocate of gay marriage across the entire nation and completely controls the media here. Kerry encouraged...

On Monday, The New York Times reported that 380 tons of conventional explosives were missing from an Iraqi weapons facility. The Times blamed President George W. Bush for not securing the dangerous explosives immediately after U.S. forces toppled Saddam Hussein’s regime. It was an explosive story timed for maximum political effect. Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry welcomed the news and made it the centerpiece of his campaign speeches, citing the missing explosives as an example of Bush’s failure of leadership. There is only one problem – the story was false. The truth is the explosives were removed before American troops...

British-led peacekeepers found more illegal arms in Kosovo on Sunday after last week´s discovery of four bunkers full of weapons, a British officer said. Sunday´s search, during an ongoing sweep across central Kosovo, was not on the scale of Friday and Saturday´s discoveries, but the finding of mortar tubes, mortar bombs and quantities of ammunition was enough to encourage the troops to extend the operation until Monday night at least. "We´re on a roll," declared Brigadier Richard Shirreff, commanding officer of the British troops in Kosovo, who are backed up in the search by Finnish, Norwegian and Czech units. The...

"This week's issue of Time magazine (April, 2004) says Sen. John Kerry 'sought an annulment of his 18-year first marriage before marrying again.' News reports indicate, however, that Kerry didn't seek an annulment until after he married Teresa Heinz in a civil ceremony in 1995. Today's New York Times says Kerry 'sought an annulment from the church when he was divorced from his first wife.' Notice that neither Time nor the New York Times says that an annulment was granted. They say it was 'sought.'

BUSH TEAM RESPONSE [10/26 05:40 PM] Steve Schmidt, Bush-Cheney '04 Spokesman, today: "John Kerry demonstrated today that he is not going to let the facts get in the way of his political attacks. He is a candidate who will say and do anything if he perceives there to be an opportunity for political gain. The fact is that John Kerry does not have a plan or vision to fight and win the War on Terror, and he is resorting to a series of baseless attacks and distortions that have been proven false." Come on, guys. The New York Times, international...

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Copyright 2003 Valley Daily Bulletin   Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA) April 4, 2003 Friday LENGTH: 813 words [SNIP] Troops encounter unknown chemical items As the military advances closer to Baghdad, signs of Iraqichemical preparedness are multiplying, although there is still no conclusive evidence Saddam Hussein's regime possesses weapons of mass destruction. On Friday, troops at a training facility in the westernIraqi desert came across a bottle labeled "tabun" a nerve gas and chemical weapon Iraq is banned from possessing. Closer to Baghdad, troops at Iraq's largest militaryindustrial complex found nerve agent antidotes, documents describing chemical warfare and a...

Bush-bashing not the long-term solution for Democrats October 26, 2004 BY MICHAEL BARONE The presidential race continues to be on knife's edge. In 15 polls taken since Oct. 13, President Bush has had an average lead of 49 percent to 46 percent over Sen. John Kerry. Bush's percentages of support ranged between 46 percent and 52 percent; Kerry's between 42 percent and 49 percent. In Florida, Ohio and New Hampshire -- states Bush carried in 2000 -- and in Wisconsin, Iowa and New Mexico -- states Al Gore carried in 2000 -- different polls show both candidates ahead. It was...

(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 television news crew embedded with the U.S. military during the invasion of Iraq reported that the material could not be found when 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...

KERRY/EDWARDS CAMPAIGN PREPARING CAMPAIGN AD ON MISSING EXPLOSIVES **Exclusive** :30 spot called "obligation" JOHN KERRY: "The obligation of a Commander in Chief is to keep our country safe. In Iraq, George Bush has overextended our troops..." JOHN KERRY: "...and now failed to secure 380 tons of deadly explosives." JOHN KERRY: "The kind used for attacks in Iraq, and for terrorist bombings." JOHN KERRY: "His Iraq misjudgments put our soldiers at risk, and make our country less secure. And all he offers is more of the same. As President, I'll bring a fresh start to protect our troops and our nation....

EDITOR SHOWS DISGRACEFUL, FAULTY, AND PARTISAN BIAS: When John Kerry took to the campaign stages early on Monday citing the New York Times piece on the issue of the missing weapons in the AlQaQaa facilities something struck me as strangely odd. I couldn't put my finger on it at the time but the Senator seemed overly confident about the facts so I waited. What is developing now is a complete picture of harsh coordination between the New York Times, its now disgraced editor Jill Abramson, and the false and incomplete story that the Times ran, in their attempt to assist John Kerry. This is one news...