Posted on 10/25/2004 10:59:21 PM PDT by ambrose
Report: Explosives already gone when U.S. troops arrived NBC News says its crew was embedded with soldiers at time
(CNN) -- The mystery surrounding the disappearance of 380 tons of powerful explosives from a storage depot in Iraq has taken a new twist, after a network embedded with the U.S. military during the invasion of Iraq reported that the material had already vanished by the time American troops arrived.
NBC News reported that on April 10, 2003, its crew was embedded with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division when troops arrived at the Al Qaqaa storage facility south of Baghdad.
While the troops found large stockpiles of conventional explosives, they did not find HMX or RDX, the types of powerful explosives that reportedly went missing, according to NBC.
The International Atomic Energy revealed Monday that it had been told two weeks ago by the Iraqi government that 380 tons of HMX and RDX disappeared from Al Qaqaa after Saddam Hussein's government fell.
In a letter to the IAEA dated October 10, Iraq's director of planning, Mohammed Abbas, said the material disappeared sometime after Saddam's regime fell in April 2003, which he attributed to "the theft and looting of the governmental installations due to lack of security."
Baghdad fell on April 9, 2003. According to NBC, troops from the 101st Airborne arrived the next day to find that the material was already gone.
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Thats great. Way to go freepers!!!!! Mass emails worked
It must pain them to have to report it, too. :)
Dr. El Baradei must be a fledgling member of the Blame America First club. He barely got this one off the ground before it smashed back down in his face.
Meanwhile, at Camp-Kerry, the spin team is searching for dry Depends...
Mama T used them all.....
Speaking of, how's DUh reacting to the story?
Will CNN announce it 50 times as it did when CNN blamed Bush for the missing explosives? I doubt it!
makes ya wonder where the other WMD ran off to, doesnt it?
Gee, how's j. effin gonna spin his comments from a couple days ago 'bout Bush's "arrogance 'n irresponsibility"?
WTG!! Now let's see if they will report it during primetime. They probably feel like they have done their duty by just reporting it once.
They are saying CNN sucks ....... etc........
Hahahah this is great
I can't wait for Kerry to retract...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................still waiting
John Kerry once again, with his media cohorts looks like the butthead he is. This guy and the MSM are traitors. I hope the American people see through this fool, because if they don't, we are all in for massive troubles, like the loss of our freedom and heads to boot!!! John Kerry, his "traitor" Democrat Party and the MSM need to be destroyed on election day, November 2nd.
"...troops from the 101st Airborne arrived the next day to find that the material was already gone."
Man - 380 tons of explosives stolen in a single day!
Looks like the Draft Dodger Clinton arrived
just in time to help Hanoi Kerry lie
about US troops, again.
How come they never lie about the Viet Cong?
Oh, I know!
They are both Commie loving bastards!
I emailed all the MSM immediately. There is power in the masses! Freepers unite, do not let this story die!
oops. Kerry stepped in a 350 ton pile and now it's up to his knees and, once again, NYT + CBS and other campaign media take another shot against their pathetic lack of credibility. Worse for Kerry he that now he looks like a complete idiot for grabbing on to this. Karl Rove must be laughing his head off! Not only have US forces destroyed 250,000+ tons of other stuff Kerry would have also presumably preferred to have been kept under the control of Saddam Hussein. What a buffoon!
The main stream media will eat itself. That is our secret weapon against them.
ROOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVVE!
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