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NY Times Flashback: Paper Reported Saddam Transferred High Explosives
NewsMax.com ^ | Oct. 27, 2004 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 10/27/2004 8:51:30 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax

The New York Times claimed this week that hundreds of tons of high explosives had been removed from the Al-Qaqaa weapons depot while the facility was under U.S. control.

But Times reporters knew way back in Feb. 2003 that the removal process was instigated - not by looters or insurgents after the U.S. liberation - but instead by the government of Saddam Hussein.

On Feb. 15, 2003, the Times reported on an address to the United Nations Security Council by Mohamed ElBaradei, the UN's chief nuclear watchdog. In quotes covered extensively by the paper, ElBaradei shared his concern about the removal of high explosives from facilities like Al Qaqaa:

"We have also continued to investigate the relocation and consumption of the high explosive HMX," ElBaradei explained a month before the U.S. invasion.

"As I reported earlier, Iraq has declared that 32 tons of the HMX, previously under I.A.E.A. seals, had been transferred for use in the production of industrial explosives, primarily to cement plants as a booster for explosives used in quarrying."

Baradei noted that Saddam's government had even confirmed the movement of the HMX, in quotes also picked up by the Times 21 months ago:

"Iraq has provided us with additional information, including documentation on the movement and use of this material, and inspections have been conducted at locations where the material is said to have been used.

"However, given the nature of the use of high explosives," ElBaradei said, "it may well be that the I.A.E.A. will be unable to reach a final conclusion on the end use of this material. While we have no indication that this material was used for any application other than that declared by Iraq, we have no technical method of verifying quantitatively the declared use of the material in explosions. . . . "

While the Times, CBS News and the presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry continue to insist that the removal of HMX and other high explosives took place sometime after the liberation of Iraq began on March 19, 2003, they have yet to address ElBaradei's Security Council report clearly indicating those claims are not true.


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KEYWORDS: elbaradei; feb2003; nytimes
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1 posted on 10/27/2004 8:51:30 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
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Nice find. The story gets crumblier and crumblier.


2 posted on 10/27/2004 8:53:22 AM PDT by Pete
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A hearty Freedom lover's "Thank You" to Tim Berners-Lee [see picture at left, email address = timbl @ w3.org ] initiator of the World Wide Web, who has freed us from the Leftist tyranny of the New York Times.
3 posted on 10/27/2004 8:53:46 AM PDT by syriacus (I'm commanded to LOVE appeaseniks, but I don't have to VOTE for one as Commander-in-Chief)
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Wow...Hope the news organizations remember that the Times reported this little tidbit.


4 posted on 10/27/2004 8:53:52 AM PDT by truthseeker2
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Ooooh that one is gonna sting the MSM. Heh heh.


5 posted on 10/27/2004 8:54:07 AM PDT by Bikers4Bush (Flood waters rising, heading for more conservative ground. Vote for true conservatives!)
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6 posted on 10/27/2004 8:54:24 AM PDT by ServesURight (Tim Michels for U.S. Senate Wisconsin)
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To: Carl/NewsMax

Thanks, Carl, for getting the news out.


7 posted on 10/27/2004 8:54:32 AM PDT by Camachee
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To: syriacus

That must have been Al Gore in his better days.


8 posted on 10/27/2004 8:54:40 AM PDT by truthseeker2
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To: Carl/NewsMax
The Lord is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear?

The Lord is the defense of my life; Whom shall I dread?

When evildoers came upon me to devour my flesh,

My adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell.

Though a host encamp against me, my heart will not fear;

Though war arise against me in spite of this I shall be confident.

Psalm 27:1-3

The Lord is in control and he will show his power once again. This is the best part of the game when it is in the 4th quarter and 2 mins left. That is when the juices start flowing and the fun begins and this is getting fun. GW is in a great position and one more long play and the game is over.

This election has been truly historic in so many ways, but the most powerful transparency is the exposure of the collusion between the media and the Rat Party. There is no longer a pretense of fairness left in the Stone-age press and have removed any ethics they had left from their reporting to become a 24/7 attack ad for Yaawn Cut & Ran Kerry.

DespeRat times call for despeRat measures and the Libs are on the precipice of extinction as we have known them. Rather than search out the truth, PravdABDNC has become destortors of the truth for the campaign. The forged AWOL documents was the beginning and now we have the phony explosive charges. We now find that the explosives were most likely never in the bunkers when our troops arrived and they refuse to print the truth. The Liberals are always more than eager to smear our Military and CIA to get at our President. For Libs that is a two-for. Now watch them try to drag out the Uranium scare or some other nebulous Monday Morning Armchair General attack.

This is how devoid of soul the Liberal Establishment has become. Rather than search for the news or provide a dialogue for important issues they have become Michael Mooreons distorting and framing GW with ridiculous charges. He has become the sloven standard bearer that the Old Media has lowered itself to.

We as a Country needed to have this revealed. We needed to have a clear delineation of how valid the information we have entering our homes and Country. Just as the Enron scandal was a blight on the investors in the short run, cleaning out the charlatans provided an important valuable service in the long run. It showed investors who to avoid and began a thorough evaluation of the accounting practices in industry. Cleaning out the Old York Times and the DNCBS of their charlatans will be a valuable service in the future for knowing who to believe and who to ignore, especially during these dangerous times.

This election has been an eye opening election for the entire Country. It is now crystal clear who and what we can and can’t trust. Unfortunately for the Stone-age press, they overplayed their hand and are headed for the Bomb Bunkers of History.

Pray for W and Our Election

9 posted on 10/27/2004 8:55:23 AM PDT by bray (Nam Vets Rock!!)
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bump


10 posted on 10/27/2004 8:55:39 AM PDT by nutmeg ("The DemocRATic party...has been hijacked by a confederacy of gangsters..." - Pat Caddell, 11/27/00)
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To: Camachee

Where does it say Al Qua Qua in this Times Artical?


11 posted on 10/27/2004 8:56:13 AM PDT by Jay777
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To: Carl/NewsMax

Thanks, Carl!

It's rather amusing to watch the NYT conveniently "forget" their own reporting.


13 posted on 10/27/2004 8:58:00 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed)
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To: Carl/NewsMax

Hoisted by their petard.


14 posted on 10/27/2004 8:58:01 AM PDT by visualops (Get your Viking Kitty patches at http://www.visualops.com/patch.html)
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OWN petard sheesh


15 posted on 10/27/2004 8:58:29 AM PDT by visualops (Get your Viking Kitty patches at http://www.visualops.com/patch.html)
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It seems like the MSM and Kerry just will not learn. First Rather's Memogate, then ABC's Memogate, and now this!


16 posted on 10/27/2004 9:01:37 AM PDT by Anti-MSM (Conservatives wish 9-11 never happened. Liberals pretend it didn't happen.)
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Sen. John Kerry continue to insist that the removal of HMX and other high explosives took place sometime after the liberation of Iraq began on March 19, 2003,

The Democrat Party, a pathetic shell of what was once a political party that had their vision for a strong more perfect America at the core of their beliefs. Now they rely on subterfuge, false claims, voter fraud, activist judges, poor education of the electorate and deception of what their candidates really believe, in order to foist their now misguided agenda on us.

I can understand a person being a liberal, but how can they continue to be a Democrat?

17 posted on 10/27/2004 9:03:46 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (John F. Kerry, Man of the people: "Sometimes I drink.............tap water")
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To: Jay777

The first line.


18 posted on 10/27/2004 9:05:57 AM PDT by MamaLucci (Libs, want answers on 911? Ask Clinton why he met with Monica more than with his CIA director.)
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To: Jay777
Where does it say Al Qua Qua in this Times Artical?

It doesn't. It says locations "like" Al QaaQa.

19 posted on 10/27/2004 9:08:07 AM PDT by Camachee
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To: Carl/NewsMax

Bump for reference


20 posted on 10/27/2004 9:15:10 AM PDT by skikvt
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