60 Minutes has now gotten the NY Times cuaght up in yet another bogus anti-Bush story...
Posted on 10/25/2004 10:32:00 PM PDT by ambrose
Pentagon responds to missing-explosives report By Rowan Scarborough THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published October 26, 2004
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The Pentagon said yesterday that 380 tons of missing explosives from an Iraqi munitions facility may have been moved before U.S. troops overran the area during the invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein.
The statement came after a joint project by CBS' "60 Minutes" and the New York Times reported that the Iraqi government has told the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that the stockpile of material for plastic explosives went missing during postwar looting. The IAEA did not publicly reveal the issue of missing explosives until after the CBS-Times report.
But Pentagon officials said yesterday that Iraq had already admitted to breaking the IAEA seals and moving tons of the explosives from the Al Qaqaa facility, south of Baghdad, before U.N. inspectors re-entered the country in 2002. Officials said the rest of the explosives stockpiles may have been removed and hidden before the arrival of American troops.
That explanation was bolstered last night by a report from NBC News, which said the weapons already were missing when their embedded reporter arrived at the site on April 10, 2003.
"NBC News was embedded with troops from the Army's 101st Airborne as they [took] over the weapons installation south of Baghdad. But they never found the 380 tons" of missing explosives, the network reported.
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Looks like the Pentagon has been reading the net tonight.
Good......
People can pick up the NY Times tomorrow and read outdated lies on this or can read the truth in the Washington Times.
I thought we "rushed" to war". God I hate liberals.
hhmmmm...another rove type MSM set up, ala the RatherGate memo?
Let the press make a story, expose the story as a fraud, get sympathy points for the president being attacked unfairly???
NBC -> Drudge -> Washington Times ->
Need a wire like AP or Reuters to keep the snowball rolling.
Thank God for imbedded reporters. (Why do I think that Bob Arnot and crew may have been involved, here...?) My money's on Arnot.
Yep.. this kind of blows kerry's claim of "Iraq was not a threat".
Well, look who's here. Again.
How did I miss CBS' involvement in this?
LOOKS LIKE CBS IS IN THE CRAPPER AGAIN..YESSSSSSS!!!!!
Did you know about CBS?
I read the Times story, but didn't know 60 Minutes was involved. Cue the Rathergate parody pictures!
60 Minutes has now gotten the NY Times cuaght up in yet another bogus anti-Bush story...
This would be a great time for Dr Bob to make an appearance.
So the weapons went missing before the troops arrived...
does this mean Kerry's complaint will move from "rushed to war" to "waited too long to act"?
OMG ... They just keep digging don't they
Well,we've got THAT dot added into the mix now. :-)
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