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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Maybe they're commie bastards in love?
>>>This "story" was a joint project between The New York Times and CBS!!!!!
Looks like The Old Grey Lady & SeeBS are going to go down in flames to being irrelevant. Couldn't happen to two better organizations.
The NY TIMES is going into Rathermode of denials and standing by their stories.
LOL good one
"Are you keeping up with this on the thread about Hanoi Documents: Two recently discovered documents captured from the Vietnamese communists during the Vietnam War strongly support the contention that a close link existed between the Hanoi regime and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) while John Kerry served as the group's leading national spokesman"
Link?
I heard that too. Could get interesting tomorrow.
I love this from CNN. BC04 simply references the NBC embedded reports, and that is "distortion". If CNN were balanced they would have pointedly asked Lockhart to elaborate and reported when he refused to do so. As it stands, they only hint Lockhart has no basis for his charge, it's just mudslinging hoping some sticks.
"I wouldn't have waited around for these dangerous explosives to be stolen. If George Bush hadn't delayed entry into Iraq by grandstanding before the United Nations, we would have been there in time to prevent the theft of these explosives! I know, because I've been in combat, how dangerous it is to hesitate when the moment is right to strike, and when I'm elected President, I'll go back to Iraq and get those explosives before they're stolen."
FR and the bloggers can only do so much. It has to be picked up by the MSM to have the necessary effect.
That's why this one is good - since it was a joint NY times / CBS story, the networks can use it to hammer away at the already damaged CBS.
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?channel=i_video&clip=/media/2004/10/25/video651346&sec=3420&vidId=3420&title=Explosives$@$Disappear$@$In$@$Iraq&hitboxMLC=eveningnews
Watch the first two videos!
Something is going on here; CBS knew this LAST week.
HA HA HA HA HA, DU self-destructing!
"I know that genetically we as freepers have to hate CNN but I , for one, have been surprised at how even handed they have been this election season. Now I will go and do the honorable thing and slit my wrists."
Nah - just rooting for Hillary 08. :)
I heard it on ABC Radio News tonight also. They're finally reporting that the explosives were already missing before our troops got there. Kerry & Co and MSM will have major egg on their faces tuesday.
NYT's contact info:
(212) 556-1234
Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Chairman & Publisher:
publisher@nytimes.com.
Scott H. Heekin-Canedy, President, General Manager
president@nytimes.com.
Smacking down the arrogant NY Times. Way to go!!!
What are some of the other MSM contact numbers and e-mail addresses? Strength in numbers! Maybe somewould should assemble a thread with nothing but contact information to the MSM.
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