Posted on 10/26/2004 10:14:04 AM PDT by kc125
Didn't you already post this gibberish once. RULE: No link, no post.
Nope... they searched it.
Can anyone tell me where these transcripts can be found for msnbc and nbc stories for links?
YES, Go to the library and look in the section "FICTION"
Yes... I saw the report on MSNBC. She basically said that she was embedded with troops, they came upon the site (on their way to Baghdad). They did not spend time inspecting the site (it was a pit stop) and then continued on to Baghdad, because that was their mission (she said).
Pressing it today aren't you?
This should have been posted in Bloggers & Personal or General/Chat.
Troll
Michlezchevski(I have no idea how to spell his name) from MSNBC clearly said the troops found none of the bad stuff at that site when they got there, only conventional stuff. This second reporter is trying to help the NYT story by saying the troops didn't search because Mich's report is devastating to NYT/CBS.
I have a question: isn't the report that the weapons were found missing when they went to the compound the day AFTER Baghdad fell?
If this girl was on the WAY to Baghdad, why would they be searching?
why has moderator not removed this racist "lying jew" garbage?
I didnt post the transcript here. Just a question if anyone else heard this? Sorry if that's not ok. I just heard Rush read the transcript from the MSNBC interview so obviously it happened. They are backpeddling against their own network. The reps need to get this into some sound bytes.If I hear Kerry's whining one more time I'm gonna scream. I want to hear some weigh in from the 101st division. That'll shut them up.
The embedded reporter said that when the 101st secured the weapons facility, they didn't find the 380 tons of explosives which are now missing. That's like saying that the U.S Coast Guard lost contact with Amelia Earheart's Electra in July of 1937 and now she's missing. THEY WERE MISSING THEN!!!!
There's something lost that can't be found. Please St. Anthony, Look around.
Actually I'm trying to find out what the deal is with this interview so I can refute this liberal on a homeschool message board who quoted the transcript when I told them the story is a fake. FYI...Rush just read the transcript on his show so it's for real. (Trolls melt if they listen to Rush...proof enough?lol) I want ammo to refute this lame attempt by MSNBC to backstab their own reporter. Save your anger for the real enemy...I'm on your side.
NBC, MSNBC and news services
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6323933
Updated: 10:01 a.m. ET Oct. 26, 2004WASHINGTON - The whereabouts of nearly 380 tons of high-powered explosives that vanished in Iraq remained a mystery Tuesday, even as the timing of their disappearance was becoming an issue in the final days of the U.S. presidential election.
In reporting the theft on Monday, the International Atomic Energy Agency said that the explosives had been looted from the sprawling Al-Qaqaa military base, about 30 miles south of Baghdad, since January 2003 due to a “lack of security” at the former Iraqi military facility.
An NBC News crew that accompanied U.S. soldiers who seized the Al-Qaqaa base three weeks into the war in Iraq reported that troops discovered significant stockpiles of bombs, but no sign of the missing HMX and RDX explosives.
It remains unclear, however, how extensively the U.S. forces searched the site in the immediate aftermath of the invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.
Signs of looting seen at war's end
The State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said that coalition forces searched 32 bunkers and 87 other buildings at Al Qaqaa facility after the war, looking for weapons of mass destruction. He said the troops found none, but did see signs of looting.
• Explosives missing in Iraq
Oct. 25: Critics, including former chief weapons inspector David Kay, said there were not enough U.S. troops to guard hundreds of weapons stockpiles in Iraq. NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski reports.
Nightly News
HMX and RDX can be used to demolish buildings, down jetliners, produce warheads for missiles and detonate nuclear weapons. HMX and RDX are key ingredients in plastic explosives, such as C-4 and Semtex — substances so powerful that Libyan terrorists needed just 1 pound to blow up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing 170 people.
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry seized on the disappearance of the explosives from the facility during a campaign speech on Monday, calling it “one of the greatest blunders” of the war in Iraq.
“George W. Bush, who talks tough ... and brags about making America safer, has once again failed to deliver,” he told supporters in Dover, N.H. “After being warned about the danger of major stockpiles of explosives in Iraq, this president failed to guard those stockpiles.”
White House spokesman Scott McClellan said that Bush had ordered an investigation of the disappearance shortly after being notified by the IAEA on Oct. 15 and that officials had quickly ascertained that no nuclear material was involved.
“Remember, at the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom there was some looting, and some of it was organized,” McClellan said. “There were munitions caches spread throughout the country, and so these are all issues that are being looked into by the multinational forces and the Iraqi Survey Group.”
He also emphasized that coalition forces have seized vast amount of munitions in Iraq.
White House says many munitions destroyed
“We have destroyed more than 243,000 munitions,” he said. “We’ve secured another nearly 163,000 that will be destroyed.”
There was disagreement among U.S. officials over when the explosives might have disappeared.
At the Pentagon, an official who monitors developments in Iraq said U.S.-led coalition troops had searched Al-Qaqaa in the immediate aftermath of the March 2003 invasion and confirmed that the explosives, which had been under IAEA seal since 1991, were intact. The site was not secured by U.S. forces, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
But other Pentagon officials, also speaking on condition of anonymity, suggested that the explosives could have been hidden elsewhere before the war. They also stressed that there is no evidence HMX or RDX have been used against coalition forces in Iraq.
Secretary of State Colin Powell, in an exclusive interview with NBC News during a visit to South Korea, refused to comment on the timing of the disappearance.
Powell: Facts of disappearance unclear
"I don't know that we know what happened to it or the exact disposition," he said. "And I'll wait for those looking into this to come up with the answer as to what was there, when it was discovered missing, and where it might be."
McClellan said Monday that the investigation will include finding out what happened to the weapons and whether they are being used against U.S. forces.
In a letter to the U.N. Security Council on Monday, IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei attributed the disappearance to a “lack of security” at Al-Qaqaa after the U.S.-led war in Iraq broke out in March 2003.
The IAEA fears “that these explosives could have fallen into the wrong hands,” said Melissa Fleming, a spokeswoman for the agency.
ElBaradei told the council the IAEA had kept the theft quiet since learning of it from Iraqi authorities on Oct. 10 to give the U.S.-led multinational force and Iraq’s interim government “an opportunity to attempt to recover the explosives before this matter was put into the public domain.”
But since the disappearance was reported by the New York Times on Monday, he said he wanted the Security Council to have the letter that he received from Mohammed J. Abbas, a senior official at Iraq’s Ministry of Science and Technology, reporting the theft of the explosives.
‘Theft and looting’
The materials were lost through “the theft and looting of the governmental installations due to lack of security,” the letter said.
The letter informed the IAEA that since Sept. 4, 2003, looting at Al-Qaqaa had resulted in the loss of 214.67 tons of HMX, 155.68 tons of RDX and 6.39 tons of PETN explosives. It was not clear how Iraqi authorities arrived at that date.
ElBaradei’s cover letter to the council said that the HMX had been under IAEA seal and that the RDX and PETN were “both subject to regular monitoring of stock levels.”
“The presence of these amounts was verified by the IAEA in January 2003,” he said.
Warning from the Iraqi government
Fleming, the IAEA spokeswoman, said that before the war, inspectors with the Vienna-based agency had kept tabs on the so-called “dual use” explosives because they could have been used to detonate a nuclear weapon.
IAEA inspectors pulled out of Iraq just before the 2003 invasion and have not yet been able to return despite ElBaradei’s repeated urging that the experts be let back in to finish their work.
ElBaradei told the Security Council before the war that Iraq’s nuclear program was in disarray and that there was no evidence to suggest it had revived efforts to build atomic weaponry.
Saddam was known to have used the site to make conventional warheads, and IAEA inspectors dismantled parts of his nuclear program there before the 1991 Gulf War. The experts also oversaw the destruction of Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons.
Asphalt standby....
Safeties on. Keep your head on swivel.
what is ashpalt standby?
Rush is talking about this now....blasting them....he's good.
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