Report: Video Shows Explosives Went Missing After War

Reuters ^ | 28 October 2004 | Unknown

[AGreatPer]

"Were IAEA seals found??"

I don't think so. Only about 3 tons of munitions spread out over many rooms.

The identification on the weapons was, of course, French and German.

[spinestein]

I don't believe anything that comes out of the MSM that cannot be independently verified as proven fact. The pattern of journalistic behavior from them is that they are willing to report stories using fabrications and forgeries in an attempt to further their ideals. I am not simply going to take their word for it that this video is from the same depot or from the time period that is claimed or anything else said about it that is not provable from the video itself.

[raivyn]

Well I submit that the next 4 days will knock the hair off the top of your head.

I think we're yet to see the true limits of the MSM and how desperate they are to lick John Kerry's shoes.

[brewcrew]

...I hope once Bush is re-elected there is some kind of relatiation to the MSM...

The only retaliation is to cancel your subscriptions and turn off the TV. Oh, yeah - you can start a movement for others to do the same.

[GnL]

I really don't see the big deal about this story, even if it is true as the MSM reports. So some thieves took some bad stuff. Crap like that happens all over Iraq. Doesn't mean the Prez is incompetent. Heck, how many thousands of tons of other materials have already been destroyed by our troops?

I could be wrong, but I suspect other voters see it the same way. It is the MSM trying to make hay out of a non-story. Nice try. Bush wins.

[Pukin Dog]

This video story will be dead by tomorrow night. Just like the first story on this matter.

[o_zarkman44]

I wish the msm would explain to me how 380 TONS OF A SPECIFIC EXPLOSIVE CAN SIMPLY DISAPPEAR? Considering the roads in and out of the facility were crowded by coalition convoys, wouldn't the necessary 18 wheelers moving out be noticed and intercepted?

Simple minds might accept the simple premise that the stuff just disappeared but only because Bush wasn't prepared to execute the war as the charges infer.

But I thought the focus would be on finding and securing wmd's, which I am sure it was!! And knowing from the UN inspection reports, the explosives existed, the quantitys were verified, and the locations noted prior to the war. So logically the explosives would have been sought after and secured by coalition troops if they indeed existed upon the invasion.

So please NY Times and C- bs offer your theory of how these post Gulf War 1 banned wmd's were even allowed to remain intact for 12 years let alone still exist where "looters" could have free access and troops could completely ignore during the time frame you claim???

The Times is a toilet rag and C-bs means can't believe sh#t. So naturally the two seem to go together in the name of Kerry, who also is full of the same rank odiferous substance the so called news media throws at us like monkeys at the zoo.

[Izzy Dunne]

101st Airborne Division when members of the division passed through the facility on April 18,

Why do all other records say that the 101st was in Al Qaqaa on the 10th ?

For 24 hours only?

And then on to Baghdad?

[crazyhorse691]

One would almost wonder at the chances of the MSMs reporting the same thing at the same time. It must be all their journalistic training and morals coalescing at the same point of time and place. I don't think so.

[Teslas Pigeon]

The MSM will probably next claim the reporter was previously employed in a carnival "guess your weight" booth and can determine weights by looking at objects.

[Jaded]

ABC said experts who have studied the images say the barrels seen in the video contain the high explosive HMX, and U.N. markings on the sealed containers were clear.

How stupid. Do they think there were labels on the out side of the drums visible from a distance? I bet they called CSI to solve this mystery. Reuters is the voice of the Middle East.

[PISANO]

This might have been the most biased day of news coverage in the history of the MSM. It was un-freakin-believable.

I share your frustration but the MSM has been our enemy and skewing all news for so long it seems old hat and EXPECTED to this observer.

Stand-by there will be a MAJOR last ditch effort to bring our President down before next Tuesday by the MSM.

[Teslas Pigeon]

The MSM will probably next claim the reporter was previously employed in a carnival "guess your weight" booth and can determine weights by looking at objects.

[tobyhill]

ABC may want to check out the surveillance shots by the Pentagon showing truck activity at Qaqaa 2 days before the war. Can this reporter verify the bunker he was in? Maybe the Iraqi's couldn't get it all and left some? After all, 380 tons is a lot. Maybe this same stuff that they see was picked up and destroyed a day later by the EOD teams following the 101st find? The ordinance EOD teams will not map every single step they get the explosives or weapons from but they will note general locations. BS Evidence!

[OneTimeLurker]

http://kstp.com/article/stories/S3741.html?cat=1

They say these are them.

[RightthinkinAmerican]

Done 4 months ago : )

[RightthinkinAmerican]

Did he take the same mail-order course as Rather's "expert" in documents?

[tobyhill]

One door down? Damn, so close yet so far away! Another crackpot journalist that didn't even know where they were at.

[Cvengr]

How did they keep 380 tons of RDX/HMX from recrystalizing if they were sealed and untouched for 12 years?

RDX sensitivity is similar to a blasting cap.