NBCNEWS: Huge Cache of Explosives Vanished From Site in Iraq -- At Least 18 Months Ago (SIREN)

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[Chicos_Bail_Bonds]

NBCNEWS: Huge Cache of Explosives Vanished From Site in Iraq -- At Least 18 Months Ago (SIREN ALERT)

[DaveMSmith]

MSNBC is reporting 'The Pentagon' is reporting the weapons may not have been there when we went in... they need to check their own transcripts.

[Enchante]

Sounds good, I do hope that Rove & co. are so on top of this issue as you suggest (I suspect they are, just want to see the whole thing play out). We all want to see the NY Times, the DNC, and most of all the Kerry campaign humiliated on this issue, but will the MSM follow up on the NBC story or just run along to the next leftist hit-job? The 'Rats jumped on the NY Times story - I received the following mass email today [I subscribed to their email list to keep track of what's coming out of the DNC/Kerry cesspool] railing about supposed Bush 'incompetence':

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Dear

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This morning, The New York Times published a story that offers further proof of how the Bush administration's incompetence and arrogance has endangered the lives of our troops and the American people.

Even before invading Iraq, the Bush administration knew that a huge facility called Al Qaqaa contained nearly 380 tons of deadly explosives. Despite the fact that they knew exactly where this facility was and what was there, they took no action to secure or protect the site. Due to the stunning incompetence of the Bush administration and their incomprehensible failure to plan, these explosives have disappeared.

Let me put this in perspective -- the bomb that took down Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland used less than one pound of this same explosive. There were 760,000 pounds at Al Qaqaa.

You can read the article by visiting:

http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/news/news_2004_1025.html

Our troops are the best-trained and best-led forces in the world, and they have been doing their job honorably and bravely. The problem is the commander in chief has not being doing his. George Bush refuses to recognize his failures in Iraq, so he can't fix them and is doomed to repeat them.

Thank you,
Joe Lockhart
Senior Advisor

P.S. Use our online media center to talk to your local media outlets about this story:

http://www.democrats.org/media/

[God luvs America]

does anyone know if NBC is actually running this story tomorrow or this is just a piecing together of old stories/reports by Drudge?

If they are running the story tomorrow this is huge for the President: Sadaam moves 350 tons of explosives out of the country before the war, explosives that could be used to ignite a nuclear device!

[tirednvirginia]

Just heard MSNBC newsbreak - they are reporting that the Pentagon says that the weapons may have disapeared before the troops got there. They are not reporting that they positively disapeared before the troops ot there.

[clintonh8r]

Rove, Gillespie, Racicot, et al need to jump on this with both feet. They need to link sKerry to this anti-American, pro-terrorist institution.

[DaveMSmith]

Lockhart said on the conference call today with the media that the missing explosives would be the "central issue for the rest of the campaign."

Heh.. wonder if Joe has a plan B ;=)

[TNCMAXQ]

18 months ago, before troops arrived? The war began Mar. 19, 2003, a little over 19 months ago. I'm a bit confused.

Anyway, any suggestion that they might have been mass destruction weapons? I can't believe NBC would bother to report it then.

[rocklobster11]

I can see it now: Kerry up to his neck in Al Qaqaa.

The other gambit is that you know Kerry will jump on any bad news so you put out a story he knows to be false, let him try to use it, then ask how he didn't know the truth when it was well known in the intelligence committee.

Whoops, I forgot Kerry wasn't at any of the intelligence committee meetings.

Personally, I prefer the Iraq had WMD gambit.

[GOPrincess]

I've been pondering -- in trying to smear Bush, didn't the NYT completely backtrack on the liberal canard that THERE WERE NO DANGEROUS WEAPONS IN IRAQ?

[EagleClaw]

Might add to that Kerry indirectly, and unjustly, slamming our commanders and troops for not doing a good job.

[tirednvirginia]

MSNBC is NBC and they are NOT reporting this story yet. Only that the pentagon is disputing it.

[DocRock]

"If I'm Karl Rove, and playing chess..."

I would make sure it became news that these "missing explosives" were close to a known stockpile of 500 tons of Uranium, but weren't in the same facility. (I think some of you may find this interesting.)

In May of this year, U.S. Forces were prohibited from removing 500 tons of Uranium from Tuwaitha.
Reference: San Diego Union Tribune

It seems Al-qa-qaa is only a few kilometers away, but it is closer to Salman Pac.

Here is a good image of Salman Pac. Click on it for High Resolution:

All of these locations are within a few miles of each other and all were known production facilities of WMD. Salman Pac was also use to train terrorist.

[whershey]

This is close to the equivalent of what Dan Rather did.

[shield]

ping

[nuffsenuff]

You know, I don't think NBC realizes that they completely slammed the NYT's story.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6323933/

If you go to this link there is a box with David Kay's picture on it half way down. There's a link to Jim M.'s story. You can get a video feed of it.

He's says it in the beginning of the story that the troops didn't find the high explosives when they got there on April 10, 2003.

[GOPrincess]

Check out Jim Geraghty's The Kerry Spot at NRO for more on this story, an NBC reporter tonight pretty much killed the NYT story, citing NBC's own on-the-ground experience embedded with the troops --

[GOPrincess]

Here's the link to the NBC story as reported on The Kerry Spot:

http://www.nationalreview.com/kerry/kerryspot.asp

[Murph]

Step 1: Get NY times to put out story about Bush administration losing explosives

Step 2: Get real story out that the explosives disappeared prior to coming under U.S. control

Step 3: Remind people that Al Qakaa site was also a known as a WMD site

Step 4: Remind people that trucks were sent to Syria from Iraq

Step 5: Drop the Iraq had WMD October surprise.

Don't Steps 2-5 require the MSM cooperating? .. otherwise Carl Rove may as well be talking to a wall --No?

[NYCslicker]

whats the address over there?

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

I've got to go over to DUng. LAst night they thought this would seal the election.