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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My thoughts exactly but we can keep on them and CBS too. Send emails freepers! The fruit of your labor is paying off!!!
But Kerry senior adviser Joe Lockhart fired back with a statement of his own, accusing the Bush campaign of "distorting" the NBC News report.
"In a shameless attempt to cover up its failure to secure 380 tons of highly explosive material in Iraq, the White House is desperately flailing in an effort to escape blame," Lockhart said. "It is the latest pathetic excuse from an administration that never admits a mistake, no matter how disastrous."
Lockhart did not elaborate on how the Bush campaign was distorting the NBC report.
from this Wash Times article.Was it Connie Francis who sang "Who's sorry now"?
HA HA HA HA HA!! Good one!
I was wondering the same thing. I hope their heads are spinning in such an apoplectic fit, that they're drooling like high speed lawn sprinklers.
I did also!!!
They haven't got much left, the other nite they said "zogby sucks".
Outstanding!
Kerry looks like a fool for trying to seize on this.
BWWAAAHHAAAAAHAA! Listen closely, you can hear the sound of the NYT going down the drain...
Okay, how much pie will be on kerry's face? how will they keep the mirage going? I do hope this exposes him for what he truly is and the American People flock to GW.
Isn't this about the point where Rove sleeps with the hot green alien chick, and an unknown Kerry staffer gets killed on an away mission?
Well if it is aywhere close to how much makeup is on edwards face , i would say a crap load! =)
Free Republic is taking them down, one by one. They don't like having someone looking over their shoulder.
They need to realize that MSM is going to be extinct like the dinosaurs soon!
a crap load.
now thats a lot.
Fox just parroted the NYSlimes story. 1:10 a.m. CDT. UFB.
That's not makeup, that's one of those flesh masks like the lizard aliens wore on "V".
But Kerry senior adviser Joe Lockhart fired back with a statement of his own, accusing the Bush campaign of "distorting" the NBC News report.
"In a shameless attempt to cover up its failure to secure 380 tons of highly explosive material in Iraq, the White House is desperately flailing in an effort to escape blame," Lockhart said. "It is the latest pathetic excuse from an administration that never admits a mistake, no matter how disastrous."
Lockhart did not elaborate on how the Bush campaign was distorting the NBC report.
Sounds like another one of those Exxxxaaagerations
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