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Video Suggests Explosives Disappeared After U.S. Took Control
ABC News ^ | October 29, 2004 | Martha Raddatz

Posted on 10/28/2004 4:36:02 PM PDT by Cavalier79

Oct. 28, 2004 — The strongest evidence to date indicates that conventional explosives missing from Iraq's Al-Qaqaa installation disappeared after the United States had taken control of Iraq.

Barrels inside the Al-Qaqaa facility appear on videotape shot by ABC television affiliate KSTP of St. Paul, Minn., which had a crew embedded with the 101st Airborne Division when it passed through Al-Qaqaa on April 18, 2003 — nine days after Baghdad fell.

Discrepancy Found in Explosives Amounts

Alleged American Al Qaeda Warns of U.S. Attacks Video Suggests Explosives Disappeared After U.S. Took Control Person of the Week: Complete Coverage Experts who have studied the images say the barrels on the tape contain the high explosive HMX, and the U.N. markings on the barrels are clear.

"I talked to a former inspector who's a colleague of mine, and he confirmed that, indeed, these pictures look just like what he remembers seeing inside those bunkers," said David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington.

The barrels were found inside sealed bunkers, which American soldiers are seen on the videotape cutting through. Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency sealed the bunkers where the explosives were kept just before the war began.

"The seal's critical," Albright said. "The fact that there's a photo of what looks like an IAEA seal means that what's behind those doors is HMX. They only sealed bunkers that had HMX in them."

After the bunkers were opened, the 101st was not ordered to secure the facility. A senior officer told ABC News the division would not have had nearly enough soldiers to do so.

It remains unclear how much HMX was at the facility, but what does seem clear is that the U.S. military opened the bunkers at Al-Qaqaa and left them unguarded. Since then, the material has disappeared.

ABC News' Martha Raddatz filed this report for World News Tonight


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abcnews; alqaqaa; ammogate; iaea; iraq
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To: Primetimedonna

Seriously... the ONLY way!


221 posted on 10/29/2004 8:33:13 AM PDT by RUCKUS INC. (Mount St. Helens is just warming up for the impending armageddon should John Kerry win in Nov.)
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To: RUCKUS INC.

Maybe we California Conservatives (No it's not an oxymoron!!) need to develope a secret handshake!


222 posted on 10/29/2004 8:50:54 AM PDT by Primetimedonna
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To: rwfromkansas
Yes. I saw Nightline last night.

Koppel said at the time he did not realize it but he was at the KaKa facility at the time in question. He showed video of him intervgiewing a soldier there.

He ended the show by stating that the weapons were not there and were removed before the invasion.

223 posted on 10/29/2004 8:58:13 AM PDT by zeebee (John Kerry- whichever way the wind blows)
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To: zeebee

good grief.

This is huge.


224 posted on 10/29/2004 9:02:21 AM PDT by rwfromkansas (BYPASS FORCED WEB REGISTRATION! **** http://www.bugmenot.com ****)
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To: TexKat
I appreciate that your post was to cyncooper, and in the fact that you put it out in the open, not in the form of a private reply, I felt it fair game to ask you the question.

I do note that Fox news is now carrying the report that over 200 tons of materials from that site were removed and destroyed in April of 2003.

225 posted on 10/29/2004 12:55:25 PM PDT by AxelPaulsenJr (Pray Daily For Our Troops and President Bush)
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To: ritapooch
Take a look at the website. Yes. The "Employing science in the pursuit of international peace" phrase coupled with the ridiculous claims made by this guy on TV indicate he is a leftist globalist kook. Their version is peace is the US bending over and taking it all from the world.

So there you have it. Any more questions before you leave?

227 posted on 10/29/2004 5:52:49 PM PDT by TankerKC (R.I.P. Spc Trevor A. Win'E American Hero)
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To: Primetimedonna
I assume this was written before the Pentagon showed the shots of the explosives being moved before the start of the war. If not, this writer is obviously in serious denial!!

I assume that you have now seen the film with your own eyes and enjoyed the next 3 explanations the pentagon has given ending with pulling a poor soldier out to say he blew up some munitions, but he did not know if theses were a part of it.

This was a huge screw up by the pentagon , plain and simple.

228 posted on 10/29/2004 7:57:29 PM PDT by RnMomof7 ( ")
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