Al QaQa al the time.
Back then, they were trying to nail the Bush administration by witnessing the fact that no WMD were found. If the US did run across the 380 tons, it would have been called "just explosives".
Did we mention Bush was AWOL from the National Guard?
Seems to me the ammo dump story is pretty weak for Kerry. I know people are dumb, but the election will be decided because some explosives are missing from one Iraqi arms depot? I think not.
A most excellent find, Ditto!
I've lost my place for everything I've read and looked at today, but one of the pieces described the HDX as white powder. This CBS story from 2003 supports the notion that the stuff was there when we went in.....
Now add this story that I read on another post and add to this one posted. Voila!
UN INspectors Found Nothing At Al-Qaqaa ON March 8, 2003
Copyright 2003 Valley Daily Bulletin
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA)
April 4, 2003 Friday
Troops encounter unknown chemical items
As the military advances closer to Baghdad, signs of Iraqichemical preparedness are multiplying, although there is still no conclusive evidence Saddam Hussein's regime possesses weapons of mass destruction.
On Friday, troops at a training facility in the westernIraqi desert came across a bottle labeled "tabun" a nerve gas and chemical weapon Iraq is banned from possessing.
Closer to Baghdad, troops at Iraq's largest militaryindustrial complex found nerve agent antidotes, documents describing chemical warfare and a white powder that appeared to be used for explosives.
U.N. weapons inspectors went repeatedly to the vast al QaQaa complex most recently on March 8 but found nothing during spot visits to some of the 1,100 buildings at the site 25 miles south of Baghdad.
Col. John Peabody, engineer brigade commander of the 3rdInfantry Division, said troops found thousands of 2-by-5-inch boxes, each containing three vials of white powder, together with documents written in Arabic that dealt with how to engage in chemical warfare.
But the NBC producer said the Americans didn't search it (major eye roll).
Alright folks...very interesting.
There was another article somebody got from Lexis-Nexis and they tried to use it to assert this point...articles at the time showed no weapons were found. But, I don't believe that article because the context was around WMD.
This says all they found was powder and labels/boxes....no explosives, just the powder.
This is a very good find and raises further doubt at the story.
Greetings all, Bush needs to hiyas Kerry hard on this story. Fox news says that becauseBush doesn't want to respond to Kerry's remarks, so they can push their message is just wrong. Bush needs to call him on the article for what it is..An election ploy by the NYT that Kerry's misleading the American public....Bush needs to ask Mr. Kerry " Why he doesn't want to believe the men in the 101 Screaming Eagles about the Explosives.". And demeans the Army he wishes to command... God save our soldiers if this Eunuch becomes commander.
Note to Kerry, CBS, ABC, NYT, LAT, etc...
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