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......"
Good thing that there are people who are starting to ask the questions that the lamestream media are too lazy or too dull to ask.
Just admit that John Kerry spent only three months in actual combat, one month in swift boat training, committed war crimes that he admitted to, met with the enemy repeatedly, committed treason, and claims to have a plan without actually having a plan.
You're missing something
Why were the high explosives in Iraq to begin with? When they were found by UN inspectors, why were they not removed or destroyed? In 1990-91 Saddam had a crude Nuclear weapon codename beach ball. What ever happened to it? You guys in the left live in a fantasy world. Containment after 9/11 is no longer is the main option. The UN as the Iraqi food program demonstrated is corrupt and WLL not look out for our country. As history over time has proven, the have-nots want what the haves possess. We must be on the offensive. Saddam as well as the leadership in Iran and N. Korea must be removed from power. In a world of Nuclear Weapons as well as other WMD, we have no other choice.
Right onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn....
Everyone, you seem to be missing this part in the beginning of the article"
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... but White House and Pentagon officials acknowledge that the explosives vanished sometime after the American-led invasion last year.
And it can be obtained easily all over the world. This article demonstrates one thing: Democrats, Socialsists and their media allies spanning the globe seek only to end the Administration of one of the only politicains on the planet willing to stop the spread of weapons.
When? When did this stuff go missing? A year ago? Two?
Exactly. You said it better, however, than I could have!
*yawn* Thanks, newbie.
But the NYT and the liberal scum like yourself have been saying that it is highly destructive super explosives.
If it is as dangerous as you guys claim, then it is a "WMD".
You can't have it both ways clown.
Either Saddam was a trheat like your boy CLINTON repeatedly said, or he wasn't.
Either be intellectually honest, or shut your lying traps and let the adults handle the situation.
Clinton merely tossed cruise missiles to hit camels in the rump, or flew some planes and dropped some bombs on insiginificant targets.
Saddam for years fired SAM's at our aircraft and the soldiers piloting them in defiance of the surrender agreement Saddam himself signed in 1991.
CLINTON didn't have the nads to call Saddam out.
Dubya does and did.
I know that just burns you libs up.
You prefer people who PRETEND to be men, TALK like a man, and yet do nothing.
So either be honest about what the threat was, or shut up.
***No matter how it's spun.****
It doesn't say "when" because we're told that the Marines checked it and found nothing.
What does "after the invasion" mean?
If IAEA tagged it, and then the IAEA complained it was being relocated, and when the Marines arrived they said they saw nothing there. If it took the Marines about 2 weeks to get as far as Babil, then the "when" they are complaining about is "After the start of the invasion" and "Before the Marines finally got there" and "GONE 'BEFORE' the Marines arrived is the most important point. The headline should be "Where Did the Former Regime Relocate the WMD trigger Explosive?"
This is old, old news. The stuff was moved while the UN diddled around so the French and Russians and Germans could hide all the stuff they'd sold Saddam as part of the "Oil for Food" rip-off. And we are supposed to be shocked by this right before we go vote? How stupid do they think we are?
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