Posted on 10/24/2004 7:21:04 PM PDT by icecold
Edited on 10/25/2004 6:42:02 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Huge Cache of Explosives Vanished From Site in Iraq By JAMES GLANZ, WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: October 25, 2004
This article was reported and written by James Glanz, William J. Broad and David E. Sanger.
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 24 - The Iraqi interim government has warned the United States and international nuclear inspectors that nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives - used to demolish buildings, produce missile warheads and detonate nuclear weapons - are missing from one of Iraq's most sensitive former military installations.
The huge facility, called Al Qaqaa, was supposed to be under American military control but is now a no man's land, still picked over by looters as recently as Sunday. United Nations weapons inspectors had monitored the explosives for many years, but White House and Pentagon officials acknowledge that the explosives vanished sometime after the American-led invasion last year.
The White House said President Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, was informed within the past month that the explosives were missing. It is unclear whether President Bush was informed. American officials have never publicly announced the disappearance, but beginning last week they answered questions about it posed by The New York Times and the CBS News program "60 Minutes......"
Thank you for your post - it appears your one of few who's been paying attention. The press totally ignored these reports when they came out in the summer because they don't want to acknowledge there was so much WMD material in Iraq. Particularly devestating was the radioactive powder they'd developed to drop on cities or what not.
Bingo.....
Makes you wonder, though . . . Al Qaqaa???? Great name for a dirty trick, especially if the NYT's the tricked. Way too many unnamed sources.
No, the story is / was that the administration quietly and without advertising (lest the terrorists try and get in on the action) removed the source supplies and brought them back to the US for safekeeping, alongside Qadaffi's stash.
What "internatinal experts?" The ones that said there were no such thing there?
That would be by weight, I suppose some consideration of volume per unit weight would also be required.
The story from the summer was different. It was a few tons of radioactive material. This is 350 tons of explosives that disappeared before the war.
If it was before the war, then how is that our fault?
Bush needs to address the nation before the election!!!
The Lord has blessed me with a strong memory, and I use it every chance I get to thwap hand-wringing newbies.
This story is aligned with the Times attempt to smear our President - we removed what we found, and Saddam squirreled the rest out of the country, as has been proven by machines with tags sold as scrap in Jordan, Turkey, and Sudan. If newbies need me to bump that thread, I can do that, too.
It's not.
The useful idiots will gobble it up just like they did Moore's F-911
Good to hear. thanks.
> Al Qa Qaa?
Must be the name of Kerry's secret October Surprise committee. This is not good, but not devastating, either. Just to be expected that the slimes will do what they can to put their man in office.
This surely is not a bomb on the Bush campaign. If the dems are counting on this as there October Surprise, this is a nothing. I'm not concerned about this as it is pretty wimpy...
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