October Surprise? NYT DEVELOPING EXCLUSIVE FRONT PAGE STORY ON TERRORISTS AND EXPLOSIVES

DrudgeReport ^ | 10/24/2004 | Drudge

[spacejunkie]

NYT DEVELOPING EXCLUSIVE FRONT PAGE STORY ON TERRORISTS AND EXPLOSIVES. EDITOR HAS SET LEAD POSITION FOR STORY, NEWSROOM SOURCES TELL DRUDGE... DEVELOPING...

[jmstein7]

Gee, an attack on Bush in the NYT this week? YOu don't say. It's EVERY week.

This is just par for the course. Non-story.

[cajungirl]

When Kerry loses, the discharge papers will be gone. No point then. Besides the pubs can blackmail him with them and have loads of fun.

[Minus_The_Bear]

I agree. I don't even see how this is news. So somehow Bush is to blame for the WMD that the left has been screaming never existed in the first place?

[nravoter]

Right, but its very easily spun into evidence of Saddams WMD program.

If any major media outlets desired to spin it that way, which, of course, the won't.

Alas, they will cover this under such headings as "We rushed to war but didn't secure the peace", "Our invasion of Iraq has made us less secure, not more so", etc.

By the way, thanks for your service in Iraq.

Cheers.

[spunkets]

" the Defense Department has been trying to keep this secret for some time. The DOD even went so far as to order the Iraqis not to inform the IAEA that the materials had gone missing. Informing the IAEA, of course, would lead to it becoming public knowledge in the United States.

This story is bogus. DOD does not keep things like this secret. If something like this occured at all, the matl's were taken prior to US forces knowing about the pile and the USDOD has no reason to beleive the claims are true. Otherwise the story consists purely of accusations, rumor and other purely contrived rubbish.

Here's a fact: Most of the IEDs exploded, or discovered in Iraq are derived from, or are rigged munitions themselves. They are rigged ordnance, not raw HE.

Also, it is officers on the ground in Iraq that are responsible for these sort of things, not Bush, Cheney, or Rummy. THey didn't cover up Abu Garab(sp), failure to protect the antiquities in the museums, and they aren't covering up anything else.

Rats rely on BS to get anywhere, that's all this is.

[Brilliant]

This is news? The whole country is brimming with explosives. What's another 350 tons?

[Halls]

I agree. Nothing about this scares me, bother's me, or makes me afraid. It is nothing new and won't cause any damamge IMO.

[jmstein7]

The "Regulars" around here should all start hitting "abuse" and getting the mods to pull these.

A moratorium on new signups is a good idea.

[CedarDave]

You beat me to it!!

I may be worried about what the latest polls show, but I'm not running around yelling like Chicken Little.

Jeez, where are these folks coming from? Too many trolling for Scarey Kerry?

[BlueAngel]

That is a great idea. No signing up to Free Republic until after the election. We don't want to help the trolls.

[SERKIT]

So the KLA connection to the Kerry campaign (videotape of Wes Clark, Holbrooke et al) and all the $$$ is NOT going to be the surprise announcement? I agree with several of the other Freepers here, the story about the high explosives is a hit piece against the President.

Kerry indictment
Kerry-KLA connection

Those two are th ones to watch....

[nonkultur]

How about a word filter that changes "October Suprise" to "Jelly Doughnut"

[Toonces T. Cat]

This looks like a total crock to me:

"RDX is a colourless solid, of density 1.82 g/cm³."

That means that one kilo, or 2.2lbs., is a cube about 3.5" on each side...think Rubik's Cube here. 350 tons of this stuff would amount to almost 320,000 of these cubes. That is one huge pile of RDX and enough weight to fill 35 or 40 full-size dump trucks.

I'm sorry, but an operation of that size would not have gone unnoticed. In fact, I think we are the only ones in the area that could pull it off. If there is that much stuff, we have it or the actual quantity should read 350lbs. or 350kilos.

-Toonces

[jmstein7]

Any story that makes people afraid of terrorism is a good story for the president.

[airborne]

I was attacked yesterday for questioning someones motives. By this morning I had determined he was not quite honorable (I'm trying to be polite here).

It stands to reason that the enemy will attempt to infiltrate this website, so if I offend the innocent, I do it because I am in a heightened state of alert.

[conservativepoet]

Thanks for the update.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

There probably is something going on, but I don't see how Drudge would be privy to it. After news broke that a pre-election al-Qaeda explosives plot was broken up as a result of thousands of interviews of people in the American muslim community, the govt. immediately put out word that there was no evidence of any actual plots (I'm not sure if that was disinformation by the U.S. Govt. to deflect attention from ongoing ops or news media disinfo in an effort to help Kerry). I'm betting Drudge is giving a teaser for his radio show with no real info.

[jmstein7]

Ein berliner?

[Minus_The_Bear]

"The "Regulars" around here should all start hitting "abuse" and getting the mods to pull these. A moratorium on new signups is a good idea."

This is a great idea. Anybody who is signing up now is certainly a troll. How can we make sure of this?