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ABC News - IAEA Says only 3 tons of high explosives left at Al QaQuaa when last checked
ABC World News Tonight | 10/27/2004 | Martha Radditz

Posted on 10/27/2004 4:18:45 PM PDT by hadrian

I looked to see if anyone else had posted this - I apologize if I missed it - about 8 minutes into ABC World News Tonight, Martha Radditz ended up her report on the missing explosives with words to this effect:

Peter, late breaking information from IAEA is that when they last inspected the Al QAQaa facility in (January? March?) 2003, there were not 180 tons of high explosives, but only 3 tons.

She did qualify that I think by stating a particular type of high explosive - either MX(?) or the other of the two types, but whatever it was, sounds like there might have been a lot less left to be "missing" at any time the US forces could have been there.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaqaa; ammogate; bush; cbs; explosives; iraq; kerry; nyt; nytrogate
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

when ?.....NOV. 2,nd. , .....how ? ....VOTE BUSH !!!!!!!!!!!


321 posted on 10/27/2004 10:43:12 PM PDT by saxxa (FIRE-FIGHTER FOR PRESIDENT BUSH)
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To: cookcounty

"Which makes me wonder how good the "seals" were on those bunkers."

Looks like my previous answer nailed it. Look at this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1259604/posts

"The documents show IAEA inspectors looked at nine bunkers containing more than 194 tons of HMX at the facility. Although these bunkers were still under IAEA seal, the inspectors said the seals may be potentially ineffective because they had ventilation slats on the sides. These slats could be easily removed to remove the materials inside the bunkers without breaking the seals, the inspectors noted."


322 posted on 10/27/2004 11:13:03 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The world needs more horses, and fewer Jackasses!)
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To: hadrian

A thousand apologies--The story is up==so the amount was much smaller and according to the Washington Times and Financial Times the Russians probably helped the Baathists move it before the war to Syria and Lebanon and possibly Iran. Wow!! Game, set match!!


323 posted on 10/27/2004 11:25:50 PM PDT by the Real fifi
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To: Watery Tart
Thanks for looking-
324 posted on 10/28/2004 1:37:37 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trackball into the Dawn of Information...)
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To: prairiebreeze
Thanks for looking-
325 posted on 10/28/2004 1:42:03 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trackball into the Dawn of Information...)
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To: Howlin

I don't trust the IAEA at all. They should have been destroying the weapons according to Deulfer's request, not just putting stickers on them. I think they're lying and probably part of the bribed coalition within Iraq.


326 posted on 10/28/2004 3:28:23 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed)
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To: hadrian

And the media fell for it again. SUCKERS.


327 posted on 10/28/2004 3:29:48 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: Peach
I heard somewhere that back in 1995 Charles Duelfer asked the IAEA to destroy the RDX at al Qa-qaa. The IAEA refused. Hope someone asks El Baradei about that.
328 posted on 10/28/2004 3:31:48 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: self

ping


329 posted on 10/28/2004 3:34:17 AM PDT by Jonx6
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To: mewzilla

Rush read that yesterday too about the IAEA. Thought that was most interesting!


330 posted on 10/28/2004 3:39:07 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed)
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To: Peach
Lurch and the Axis of Weasels are going to be so sorry that he ever opened this can of worms.

And it will be interesting to see how my two local rags handle this. The day after the NYT story appeared it was on their front pages. As soon as it became apparent that the MSM had hosed itself again, the AP's (my local papers don't do any of their own national stories) attempts at spin have been appearing farther back in the papers. What a joke. This nation is divided into 2 Americas all right. Those who are dim enough to trust the MSM for their news, and those who AIN'T.

331 posted on 10/28/2004 3:44:08 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: mewzilla

We live in a small town and our two local papers do exactly what yours do. Then you never see the corrections.

I write a lot of letters to the editor and they accept almost all of them because so few people write in and they need letters. I try to correct the incorrect spin from the NYT, etc., using facts freepers have dug up.


332 posted on 10/28/2004 3:48:18 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed)
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To: Peach

One of ours just got an e-mail from me about allowing themselves to be hosed by the DNC. Again. They haven't replied. They never do. But then this is the same paper that, I kid you not, had one of its employees tell me that the editors think their readers are idiots.


333 posted on 10/28/2004 3:51:56 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: mewzilla

That's a new marketing technique :-)

The liberals do think most readers are idiots; it's why they get away with the sloppy reporting they do.


334 posted on 10/28/2004 3:52:49 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed)
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To: Peach

Well, they're still hurting for subscibers so I guess the good news is that aren't as many idiots around here as they thought :)


335 posted on 10/28/2004 3:59:32 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: eddie willers; Howlin

- thanks for the heads-up -- figures kerry would step in in it big time before the election, now are the sheeple paying attention?


336 posted on 10/28/2004 5:29:57 AM PDT by tioga
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To: eddie willers

So the stuff disappeared right under the nose of the UN??
Wonder how much Saddam paid Blix?


337 posted on 10/28/2004 5:31:35 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: Sacajaweau

Has there been any update on this story since last night???


338 posted on 10/28/2004 9:16:55 AM PDT by God luvs America (Support Our Troops....Don't vote for Kerry!)
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