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The NYT/Drudge Bombshell: Huge Cache of Explosives Vanished From Site in Iraq
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| JAMES GLANZ, WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER
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.
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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......"
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: explosives; iraq; napalminthemorning; newyorktimes; nytrogate
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To: TaxRelief
When? When did this stuff go missing? A year ago? Two?According to Rush, this stuff was not there approximately 19 months ago, when our troops checked. So, that many tons had to be moved and hidden or transported out of Iraq before April 2003. That would have taken awhile.
This is recycled "news" repackaged by the NYTs in coordination with the Kerry campaign to attack the President. IOW, the enemy within rears its evil head again. The Dems are desperate.
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posted on
10/25/2004 12:03:14 PM PDT
by
auboy
(If you favor works over words, vote Bush-Cheney 2004.)
To: xzins; PhilDragoo; Happy2BMe; devolve
The headline should be "Where Did the Former
Regime Relocate the WMD trigger Explosive?" bump!!
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posted on
10/25/2004 12:26:46 PM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
To: icecold
Oh boy! Another catastrophic success!
To: MeekOneGOP
Today I've been hammered with psychotic socialist spam demeaning President Bush and demanding I vote for FN John.
The spams contain links to "Huge Cache of Explosives Vanished From Site in Iraq - New York Times" news items and FN John's "statement" on the Kerry/Edwards site.
Wankers.
344
posted on
10/25/2004 12:57:39 PM PDT
by
MrBambaLaMamba
(Buy 'Allah' brand urinal cakes - If you can't kill the enemy at least you can piss on their god)
To: MrBambaLaMamba
bump! My thanks to BulletBobCo for the concept of this
pic and to Conspiracy Guy for the captions!
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posted on
10/25/2004 1:01:21 PM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
To: icecold
If it was only 380 tons, then the car bombing criminals should be running on empty.
346
posted on
10/25/2004 1:19:51 PM PDT
by
showme_the_Glory
(No more rhyming, and I mean it! ..Anybody got a peanut.....)
To: icecold
Personally I think the 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives "vanished"in Sandy Berger's pants. He was "absent minded" again.
BTW, what's new with Sandy Berger?
347
posted on
10/25/2004 1:38:17 PM PDT
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: nmh
buying new pants last i heard
348
posted on
10/25/2004 1:42:57 PM PDT
by
icecold
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To: ladyinred
How could this have happened where there were no WMD's?
Perhaps because these were conventional explosives.
Do you REALLY not understand the distinction?
--
FF
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posted on
10/25/2004 2:48:59 PM PDT
by
Fred Fighter
(Don't trust me! Read for yourself.)
To: oolatec
John Gibson pointed out to Gen. Clark that in fact much of it was located in two bunkers that the Coalition Forces blew up with Bunker Busting Bombs and they believe the Iraqis took any remaining explosives out to the Desert to protect from further air attacks. Really shocked and left the guy windless!
To: Petronski
Nope, this will all be about "Bush guarded the oil ministry but not the explosives."
No surprise considering he didn't guard Tuwaitha either.
In fact, did the Bush administration bother to send anyone to any of places they claimed they knew WMD were hidden until weeks after the end of major military operations? Odd behavior for an administration that was mislead by bad intel into believing that there there were WMD stockpiles hidden there.
Like, what were they waiting for?
Actions speak louder than words.
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FF
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posted on
10/25/2004 2:59:05 PM PDT
by
Fred Fighter
(Don't trust me! Read for yourself.)
To: axes_of_weezles
These explosives were gone prior to any US soldiers being on the ground.
From the NYT article:
I.A.E.A. experts say they assume that just before the invasion the Iraqis followed their standard practice of moving crucial explosives out of buildings, so they would not be tempting targets. If so, the experts say, the Iraqi must have broken I.A.E.A. seals on bunker doors and moved most of the HMX to nearby fields, where it would have been lightly camouflaged - and ripe for looting.
But the Bush administration would not allow the agency back into the country to verify the status of the stockpile.
You also wrote:
I would not be surprised that one of the big explosions videotaped from the Rashad/Palestine hotels during the opening evenings of the USAF bombing/ALCM/SLCM offensive toasted this stuff for effect on day one.
Indeed, according to the NYT article two of the buildings had been replaced by large craters.
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FF
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posted on
10/25/2004 3:14:42 PM PDT
by
Fred Fighter
(Don't trust me! Read for yourself.)
To: angkor
I've never, not once, heard of the bombings in Iraq being anything but IEDs, usually from 155mm warheads.
Did you hear about any car or truck bombings in Iraq in the last two years or so? Do you remember the UN headquarters in Baghdad being bombed?
What do you remember being used?
That's a serious question, I do not recall the explosives being identified.
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FF
355
posted on
10/25/2004 3:17:59 PM PDT
by
Fred Fighter
(Don't trust me! Read for yourself.)
To: infohawk; Chieftain
Great point. The noise level of the campaign is so high
that the sheeple will hear "missing' and "terrorists" etc,
which may come out as ,"whoa...Sadaam was dangerous."
Now, also, I didn't see the following posted anywhere....I listened to Fox talk about the story tonite and have you heard the pronounciation of the Al Qa Qaa weapons site?
YUP.YUP.YUP. Its' pronounced...
" al Kah-Kah"( as in doo-doo)
I fell off the sofa LOL...what a fitting name for this story!
356
posted on
10/25/2004 4:17:42 PM PDT
by
Recovering Ex-hippie
(Now my dog is so anxious about the election....she 's sneaking ice cream bars!!)
To: arkady_renko
October surprise #2 from Kerry is going to be the announcement of Clinton as Secretary of State in his admin.
Ugh, yuck. I hope you're wrong, but it wouldn't surprise me at all.
To: Dr Snide
Exactly. When I see the term "explosives" I think car bomb. It makes it look like Saddam was in fact sponsoring terrorism.
This is the last week before the election and this is the best they can come up with?
To: xzins
To: All
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posted on
10/25/2004 6:49:28 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Kerry: I wholeheartedly disagree with you beyond expression)
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