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Missing Weapons? Blame the Russians
washingtondispatch.com ^ | October 28, 2004 09:43 AM | Shane Cory

Posted on 10/28/2004 10:20:59 PM PDT by Destro

News Analysis by TWD's Editor, Shane Cory.

Missing Weapons? Blame the Russians

October 28, 2004 09:43 AM

The Washington Times dropped to the bottom of the integrity scale by leading with a story that definitively blamed the loss of hundreds of tons of high explosives (HE) on the Russian military. Their story was based mainly on the views of one controversial Pentagon staffer, John A. "Jack" Shaw.

Earlier this year Shaw was reportedly involved in a controversy involving the former Iraqi golden boy and now criminal, Ahmed Chalabi. The scandal involved the awarding of cell phone contracts to three companies with close ties to Chalibi. According to the L.A. Times, he was put under investigation by the FBI.

From reports of Shaw, it would seem that this government employee runs fast and loose. When investigating a contracting matter, he allegedly was refused entry into Iraq and then dressed up as a Halliburton employee in order to gain entry into the country.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtondispatch.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaqaa; chalabi; disinformation; iraq; shaw
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To: MarMema

Keep revealing your true colors here on this board. Do you think FReepers support the idea of you hoping Putin would assassinate any American, including Kerry?

And all this time you've been comparing Putin to the Second Coming of Christ? Sounds more like the second coming of Stalin.


21 posted on 10/28/2004 11:12:14 PM PDT by streetpreacher (Bush did not lead this country into an unjust war; Kerry led this country out of a just war.)
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To: streetpreacher

That was an off topic post, I agree.


22 posted on 10/28/2004 11:12:39 PM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
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To: streetpreacher; MarMema

It is called a joke. Marmema made a funny.


23 posted on 10/28/2004 11:13:41 PM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
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To: streetpreacher; jb6; GarySpFc; familyop; philosofy123
Except as usual Kerry is full of horse droppings.

The "political opposition" being jailed are thugs and mafia.

Putin does not control all of the media, but a great deal of it is controlled by mafia.

And the system of central leadership Putin is suggesting has been used in Italy for a long time.

Not every country has to be a look alike to our country.

In many ways Russia has much greater freedom than we do.

Finally all of the crap spewed by Kerry was the same crap being spewed in Russia by the liberals there.

It amazes me how many here on FR are spewing the same liberal viewpoints, just keeping in the safety zone by using Russia to display them.

24 posted on 10/28/2004 11:17:38 PM PDT by MarMema (Sharon is my hero)
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To: MarMema

Yes. Most of my spoiled fellow Americans neglected facts from that Debate while concentrating too much on the voices, mannerisms, apparel, and so forth, of the contestants in the Debate.

Kerry is capable of bringing much unnecessary danger to the world. He might avoid his duty of defense of the USA and allies by small actions and allow bad situations to grow larger and more dangerous against us all. He is also capable of becoming aggressive against countries that intend no aggression against us. Most US Democrats are materialists. They are also leaning more against uses of force (Stalin-ish but more for fascism, where corporations would be owned privately but more controlled by the government) to get what they want.

US and European left/liberal groups will do anything to get more power and material wealth from others. Their accusations in conspiracy stories are what we call, "projection" of their own plans.


25 posted on 10/28/2004 11:19:23 PM PDT by familyop (Receive, adhere, listen, dissolve, entice and launch.)
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To: streetpreacher
You think Russia is going to tolerate Kerry going over there and telling them what to do with their nuclear material?

You don't think that's a bit overboard?

26 posted on 10/28/2004 11:19:38 PM PDT by MarMema (Sharon is my hero)
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To: Destro
Well, I agree that they could not have moved 40 trucks out while we were in there-which is enough to discredit what is being claimed by skerry.

However, the WSJ article I referred to was several months prior to the invasion, and I do believe that lots and lots of stuff left in those convoys-but I of course have no proof. The WSJ is one of the few old media papers for which I still have some respect. Of course I do recall reading other similar articles, but I do not recall the source of those.

As to the Russians they may have been Russian Mafia, Russian Mercenaries, Former Russian KGB, I do not make a distinction between these groups and any others in Russia.

My memory is not what it used to be and I do not recall which segment of Russia I read about-hence I just said Russia-sorry to be imprecise.
27 posted on 10/28/2004 11:24:16 PM PDT by greeneyes
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To: Destro
Watch and see. The US has satellite imagery that may implicate or exonerate the accused.
28 posted on 10/29/2004 1:22:20 AM PDT by endthematrix (10 out of 10 terrorists agree-Anybody but Bush!)
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To: endthematrix
Looking at the satellite photos it is hard to tell if either the people or trucks are Russian. Maybe some of our on board prophets can clue us in with their SPECULATIONS and OPINIONS.
29 posted on 10/29/2004 3:45:40 AM PDT by GarySpFc (Sneakypete, De Oppresso Liber)
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To: Destro; Poincare; Lance Romance; Bronzewound; Grim; familyop; greeneyes; MarMema; endthematrix; ...
8 “Missing Weapons? Blame the Russians”
  The Washington Dispatch
  by Shane Cory, Editor
  October 28, 20

OMG, THIS IS HOT!

In an exclusive article published in The Washington Dispatch today, Shane Cory blows Bill Gertz's story, about Russian complicity in "Qaqaa-gate", clean out of the water! Bases-loaded home run for Shane Cory!

Uh, only one problem...

LOL, there is no "Washington Dispatch"! That website is a web fiction set up by, run by, written by and staffed by, none other than Shane Cory. He does that in order to lend an air of "journalistic credibility" to his anti-Bush, Libertarian, whacko diatribes.

When not pretending to be a reporter, Shane Cory is actually the webmaster for the Libertarian Party national website and a staff member of the LP national office. You remember the Libertarian Party, don't you? That's the party so craven that they would rather bend over for the islamo-fascists, than stand up and fight for America.

You've been had, pal.
(And that's giving you the benefit of the doubt.)

--Boot Hill

30 posted on 10/29/2004 4:38:38 AM PDT by Boot Hill (Candy-gram for Osama bin Mongo, candy-gram for Osama bin Mongo!!!)
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To: Boot Hill
Libertarians are the enemy now? And you would take the word of a newspaper published by the Moonie cult - who think Rev. Moon is Jesus Christ - over a Libertarian publication?

Lastly, you went into a diatribe - yet could not disprove one word the editorial said about Gertz's one and only named source for this story - Earlier this year Shaw was reportedly involved in a controversy involving the former Iraqi golden boy and now criminal, Ahmed Chalabi. The scandal involved the awarding of cell phone contracts to three companies with close ties to Chalibi. According to the L.A. Times, he was put under investigation by the FBI.

Is that how credible you can get?

31 posted on 10/29/2004 6:42:02 AM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
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To: Boot Hill
You've been had, pal. (And that's giving you the benefit of the doubt.)

Whatever. The link goes to an article on Frontpagemag.com.

32 posted on 10/29/2004 9:28:17 AM PDT by Grim
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To: Destro
8 “Earlier this year Shaw was reportedly involved in a controversy involving the former Iraqi golden boy and now criminal, Ahmed Chalabi. The scandal involved the awarding of cell phone contracts to three companies with close ties to Chalibi. According to the L.A. Times, he was put under investigation by the FBI.”
(Originally posted by Destro as this threads "news article", where he failed to disclose that the actual source was the Libertarian Party national office.)

You see, this is how slimy your Libertarian source gets.

Yeah, Shaw was "involved in the controversy", because he was the one that uncovered, disclosed and thwarted the controversy, which "involved the awarding of cell phone contracts to three companies with close ties to Chalibi".

Just as Jack Shaw was at the forefront in the uncovering of the Israeli spy network operating inside DOD this year and working closely with the FBI in prosecuting that case, so to was he DOD's point man in the case you so falsely presented here. And for this reason, Rumsfeld and DOD stand foursquare behind Jack Shaw.

But the one good thing your fraudulent post and responses did here, was to confirm that you are knowingly acting as the Libertarian Party's point man for spreading those despicable lies here on FR and intentionally undermining Bush's leadership in the GWOT.

"Libertarians are the enemy now", you ask? Hell yes they are!

--Boot Hill

33 posted on 10/29/2004 12:51:34 PM PDT by Boot Hill (Candy-gram for Osama bin Mongo, candy-gram for Osama bin Mongo!!!)
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To: Boot Hill; Destro

Yes, Cory's mention of the Deputy U.S. Undersecretary of Defense dressing up as a Halliburton employee to get into Iraq was very suspicious and completely irrelevant. Besides bashing the President, Cory's obviously feeding the radical left with his ridiculous conspiracy paranoia.


34 posted on 10/29/2004 12:55:08 PM PDT by familyop (Receive, adhere, listen, dissolve, entice and launch.)
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To: MarMema
Correction of my error:

"Most US Democrats are materialists. They are also leaning more against uses of force (Stalin-ish but more for fascism, where corporations would be owned privately but more controlled by the government) to get what they want."

Democrats are leaning more in favor of uses of force against their own countrymen (we in the USA who are conservatives) and against world leaders who do not intend any aggression against us in order to get what they want. Hillary Clinton used hysterics about rape in the Balkans to coerce her husband into sending our military to that civil war. As for actions favored by US Republicans, Saddam Hussein threatened to attack the USA very publicly and plainly while building his military and alliances to do so.
35 posted on 10/29/2004 1:00:52 PM PDT by familyop (Receive, adhere, listen, dissolve, entice and launch.)
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To: Destro
"According to the L.A. Times, he was put under investigation by the FBI.
Is that how credible you can get?"


The left/liberal LA Times is often not credible. And the social anarchist Libertarian Party is so despised here in the USA that it has very few members and no chance to appreciably affect politics.

Libertarian Party Official Platform
http://lp.org/issues/platform/preamble.html

And try the phrase, "Outright Libertarians" in a google.com search. ...something the Republican Party disagrees with very much, as we have seen by votes in the various states overwhelmingly in favor of marriage amendments against that sort of activism.

We conservatives do believe in our Creator here in the USA. With that, we are against conspiracy lies, socialist policies (along with the anarchist attempts to assist leftist propaganda, which tactic is reminiscent of pre-WWII German events), libertine pursuits, etc.

The Libertarian Party is a nearly unnoticeable opposition to our efforts. While ignoring the miniscule, irrelevant Libertarian efforts in our Campaign, we are dealing with our stronger opposition: the Democrat (socialist, empire-loving) Party.

Our US Democrats would rule Europe and the Caucasus, then suck it dry if they could stay in power long enough to do so. Even leftist Europeans would be wiser to stop supporting US Democrats so much. To support the irrelevant Libertarian Party is to support the Democrat Party. That's common knowledge among Republicans.
36 posted on 10/29/2004 1:21:33 PM PDT by familyop (Receive, adhere, listen, dissolve, entice and launch.)
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To: familyop; Boot Hill

irrelevant like heck - it is one of the reasons he is being investigaed by the FBI. Again if you wantto follow the musings of the WT Moonie theories - be my guest.


37 posted on 10/29/2004 1:25:04 PM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
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To: familyop
"Yes, Cory's mention of the Deputy U.S. Undersecretary of Defense dressing up as a Halliburton employee to get into Iraq was very suspicious..."

Chalabi knew what Shaw was up to and tried to prevent him from getting into Iraq to obtain the info that Shaw eventually used to hang Chalabli out to dry. Shaw is a hero, not a villain.

See post #33 for more detail.

--Boot Hill

38 posted on 10/29/2004 1:26:32 PM PDT by Boot Hill (Candy-gram for Osama bin Mongo, candy-gram for Osama bin Mongo!!!)
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To: Destro; familyop
"..it is one of the reasons he [Shaw] is being investigaed by the FBI."

This lie is being promoted by the Libertarian Party and the L.A. Times (and now you), who have an obvious political agenda to destroy Bush. Shaw is not being investigated by the FBI, rather Shaw is the man who uncovered and disclosed Chalabi's fraud and is DOD's point man in working with the FBI to prosecute this case.

--Boot Hill

39 posted on 10/29/2004 1:36:49 PM PDT by Boot Hill (Candy-gram for Osama bin Mongo, candy-gram for Osama bin Mongo!!!)
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To: Boot Hill

Paranoid ranting. Let me know how you came to your conclusion that the all mighty (chuckle) LP somehow has the power to launch FBI investigations on individuals.


40 posted on 10/29/2004 4:32:10 PM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
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