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Has anybody questioned the alleged video from the ABC affiliate itself? What is the date certain? It seems unlikely early in the war that soldiers would be breaking into bunkers, opening barrel lids, handling bottles, etc. without the use of chemical suits. The video does not show any officers (as far as I can tell). This smells very fishy - did they get the video from CBS?

Deep thoughts from Colmes. When shown the Predator photos of trucks at al-Qaqaa that were spiriting away the munitions just a few weeks before the invasion, he said something like "If that's the case, then why didn't the Administration act on it? What incompetence!" Good thinking, Alan! The US military should have obviously ditched all it's pre-invasion plans and schedules to hurry in to one of 10,000 Iraqi munition dumps to daringly interdict the transport of 0.005% of Iraq's total munitions so that John Kerry, the New York Times, CBS (and Alan Colmes following in lock-step) wouldn't say bad things...

Is all this Democratic puff over the "missing" munitions a way for Kerry to reverse what popular consensus assumes: that an attack would help Bush? Does Kerry hope for an attack now so he can say "See, this President's incompetence has caused this butchery -- possibly with the very munitions he failed to guard in Iraq"?

CALLING ANY 101st Airborne troops: New York Talk Show Host Kevin McCullough will give airtime to any from the 101st who will step forward. Anyone who was in the 101st when you secured the AlQaQaa facility on April4-10, 2003. He wants to hear from you. Please contact via kmc@wmca.com. KMC will give you air-time on Wednesday in New York City and around the world to tell us the truth about what you did in the securing of the munitions dump that is now the subject of controversy and false representation by John Kerry. PLEASE PASS THIS ON to anyone you...

Squadron cleans bomb dump, makes area safeby Senior Master Sgt. Gene LaDoucer506th Air Expeditionary Group Public Affairs 2/12/2004 - KIRKUK AIR BASE, Iraq (AFPN) -- Munitions airmen are generally proud to tell people they work in the “bomb dump,” the endearing term often used to describe a base’s munitions storage area. An exception, however, might be when the dump is, well, a dump. Upon surveying the weapons storage area upon their arrival here in November, airmen of the 355th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron munitions flight quickly saw that a dump is what they had -- an expansive area of land that had become a...

WASHINGTON – A former Army intelligence analyst says a number of Iraqi exiles have reported the deposed regime stashed small missiles, weapons and ammunition at mosques in and around Baghdad. U.S. forces have confiscated large caches of weapons in raids of Iraqi homes, but they are barred from raiding religious sites. Guerrilla fighters continue to attack troops with mortars, grenades, homemade explosives and small arms fire on a daily basis. They are tapping into a huge arsenal left behind by the former regime, one that some military officials in Iraq fear could supply fighters for several years. Iraqi exiles from...

Newsweek reports this week that although the war with Iraq has not begun, "So far the big battles are in Washington, not Baghdad." The magazine notes that "Secretary of State Colin Powell, the only combat veteran among Bush’s senior aides, is said to be determined that if U.S. troops are committed, they go in with overwhelming force. Vice President Dick Cheney (who had student and parent deferments during Vietnam) and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (a Navy pilot in the years between Korea and Vietnam) are eager to finish the job Bush’s father started when he was president." Both...

<p>BAGHDAD &#8212; U.S. and Iraqi officials say hundreds of tons of Iraqi ordnance similar to that used in last week's bombing of the U.N. headquarters remain unaccounted for, leaving open the possibility of more and bigger attacks.</p> <p>When the war ended, "the munitions were everywhere, even on the sidewalks," said former Iraqi Army Brig. Gen. Muhammad Abdullah Nour in an interview.</p>

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP)--The FBI said on Wednesday the bomb that ripped through U.N. headquarters here was made from 1,000 pounds of old munitions including one single 500 pound bomb, all of the materials from Saddam Hussein's prewar arsenal that required no ``great degree of sophistication'' to build. A key member of the U.S.-picked interim government, meanwhile, said the death toll stood at 20 but could go much higher. ``There are 20 dead and there are many who are still trapped in there,'' said Ahmad Chalabi, a member of the Governing Council and leader of the Iraqi National Congress. Chalabi insisted...

  AS the conflict in Iraq unfolded this spring, the world watched in amazement at the accuracy of the latest generation of precision-guided missiles. These weapons allowed U.S. and allied air forces to operate unconstrained by the limits of daylight, and they came to “rule the night.” Now, the U.S. armed forces want to further extend this weapon capability by developing armament that will reduce collateral damage—that is, reduce destruction outside the radius of an intended target—while enhancing its destructive force on the target.To achieve this goal, explosives and composites experts at Lawrence Livermore are leading an effort under...

U.S. Captures 18 Guerrillas in Iraq Wed Aug 6, 3:16 PM ET By D'ARCY DORAN, Associated Press Writer TIKRIT, Iraq - U.S. forces arrested 18 suspected members of the anti-U.S. resistance and found a huge stockpile of weapons in a series of raids, and Iraqi police captured an alleged organizer of attacks on American troops, military officials said Wednesday. Iraq's postwar efforts at recovery continued: In Baghdad, the U.S.-installed Governing Council asked for U.S. help in creating desperately needed jobs, while to the south in Diwaniyah, Spanish soldiers began setting up a base for troops from Spain and four Latin...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 July 29, 2003Release Number: 03-07-88 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEAPONS SIEZED IN MULTIPLE RAIDS BAGHDAD, Iraq – Possible attacks were prevented through the removal of enemy weapons during multiple raids throughout Iraq on July 28 by Coalition forces in support of the effort to create a secure environment. Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) conducted a raid on a local café in search of a person who allegedly attacked various police stations in the Mosul area. The soldiers detained...

SANTA FE, N.M. (Reuters) - Mary had a little lamb; It's fleece was white as snow; And every time the lamb got fed; It gobbled up its nitro. Shaboom the sheep's favorite meal consists of animal feed made from nitrogen-based chemicals and other dismantled gun propellants -- one of the more creative uses Albuquerque company TPL Inc. is finding for unwanted military munitions. Shaboom, named after the comic book phrase for an explosion, was the "guinea-sheep" for TPL's experiment with feed made from spent munitions, and found it delicious. "I referred to Shaboom as the world's second most famous sheep...

FIRST INCIDENT: June 9, 2003 Release Number: 03-06-34 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FIRE CAUSES EXPLOSIONS AT AMMUNITION FACILITY KARBALA, Iraq - A fire caused a series of explosions at a Coalition ammunition supply point here late Monday afternoon. There were no reported Iraqi or U.S. casualties and the fire was localized. The fire is not suspected to be a result of hostile action. Coalition forces evacuated the area and established a 4 kilometer buffer zone around the location. Explosive ordnance disposal experts will conduct an assessment to determine when the site is safe to be cleared of unexploded ordnance. The incident...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- A U.S. soldier was killed Monday and another wounded when their convoy was ambushed in northern Iraq, the military said. Unidentified gunmen opened fire on the eight-vehicle convoy, which was on a resupply mission to a base near the town of Hadithah, about 120 miles north of Baghdad, U.S. Central Command said in a statement. It said the ambush took place at 6:15 a.m., and that the troops belonged to the 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment. The gunmen used machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades in the attack, the latest of several on coalition forces this month. The...

<p>May 14, 2003 -- DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A purported al Qaeda commander has sent e-mails to a respected Arab magazine claiming the group has stockpiled weapons in the Persian Gulf, where bombers attacked Western compounds in Saudi Arabia on Monday night.</p>

Jewish World Review May 8, 2003 / 6 Iyar, 5763 Jack Kelly Dispatches from the Desert: Ammo boxes in trucks get attention of soldiers http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | WESTERN IRAQ It makes you feel like a proud father," said First Sgt. Jim Gowdy. "They do listen." Gowdy has four sons back home in Canon City, Colo., and 140 more in the enlisted ranks of the Army's Apache troop, Tiger Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. "It's funny how my guys can go from boys to men in a matter of minutes," Gowdy said. "This isn't something we practiced. But they did great." The...

300 Iraqi Mortar Rounds Go BoomOver 300 Iraqi mortar rounds of Jordanian origin are disposed of in a large explosion by U.S. Army Special Forces and 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit personnel on the hillsides near Mosul, Iraq April 16, 2003. Coalition forces are discovering and disposing of large weapons caches throughout Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom(OIF). OIF is the multinational coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jerry Morrison)

Big explosions shake Baghdad BAGHDAD, May 2 (Reuters) - Four big explosions rocked the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Friday. Nothing was known yet about the cause and location of the series of explosions, which included one massive blast which shook the heart of the city. A Reuters correspondant in Baghdad said the explosions appeared to have come from across the river near one of the presidential palaces.

More civilians are being injured or killed in northern Iraq now than during the war, largely due to the breakdown of law and order and the dangers of abandoned caches of Iraqi arms, a human rights group said Sunday. The New York-based group Human Rights Watch said it studied civilian injuries and deaths at five hospitals and morgues in the northern cities of Kirkuk and Mosul. Health workers reported daily weapons-related injuries, both intentional and accidental, and many of the victims were children who played with unexploded ordnance, it said. "In some ways, the peace has proved more lethal than...