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NBC BLOWS A HOLE IN NY TIMES' EXPLOSIVES STORY (KERRY SPOT)
The Kerry Spot, NRO ^ | 10/25/04 | Jim miclacevski

Posted on 10/25/2004 6:26:01 PM PDT by Timeout

KERRY SPOT

Jim Miklaszewski of NBC News pretty much dismantled the New York Times attack on behalf of Kerry today.

NBC News: Miklaszewski: “April 10, 2003, only three weeks into the war, NBC News was embedded with troops from the Army's 101st Airborne as they temporarily take over the Al Qakaa weapons installation south of Baghdad. But these troops never found the nearly 380 tons of some of the most powerful conventional explosives, called HMX and RDX, which is now missing. The U.S. troops did find large stockpiles of more conventional weapons, but no HMX or RDX, so powerful less than a pound brought down Pan Am 103 in 1988, and can be used to trigger a nuclear weapon. In a letter this month, the Iraqi interim government told the International Atomic Energy Agency the high explosives were lost to theft and looting due to lack of security. Critics claim there were simply not enough U.S. troops to guard hundreds of weapons stockpiles, weapons now being used by insurgents and terrorists to wage a guerrilla war in Iraq.” (NBC’s “Nightly News,” 10/25/04)

If Jill Abramson, managing editor of the New York Times, had a shred of concern over her paper's reputation for getting the facts right never mind objectivity or fairness, she would be running the correction - or at least this blatantly contradictory information - in the giant headline font and above-the-fold location that today's story got. But I guess the interest in echoing the sentiments of Maureen Dowd is more important than getting it right at the Old Gray Lady.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: explosives; iraq; jillabramson; kerry; mediawingofthednc; nbcnews; newyorktimes; nyt; nytrogate; wot
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To: picturefan

See #734. Something doesn't add up.


741 posted on 10/25/2004 9:24:43 PM PDT by hobson
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To: CobaltBlue

Yes, but he's a CONSERVATIVE whacko.

Thank your lucky stars he ain't Soros. Then Washington residents would choose between Pravda and the Daily Worker.


742 posted on 10/25/2004 9:24:43 PM PDT by LibertarianInExile (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: okiegop

bookmark


743 posted on 10/25/2004 9:24:58 PM PDT by CheezyD
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To: cookcounty
Makes you wonder how much more the UN lied to the world about SADDAMS WMDs .
I hope this opens up the true revelations on SADDAMS WMDs , and the UN cover up.
The UN can't hide their lies anymore once Bush is re elected.
SO ? does this make the DUmmies, Kerrys, and the UNs argument MUTE ? against the War in IRAQ ?
744 posted on 10/25/2004 9:25:05 PM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The ( FOOL ) hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: fidelio

Thanks Fidelio - I read the whole latest AP report ... here in my opinion is the key part for us...

"Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said coalition forces were present in the vicinity of the site both during and after major combat operations, which ended May 1, 2003 - and searched the facility but found none of the explosives material in question. That raised the possibility that the explosives had disappeared before U.S. soldiers could secure the site in the immediate invasion aftermath."

Report should have said - the explosives could also have been moved much earlier, as early as March 2003 or even Jan 2003.

I hope we will get an even more definitive statement from the Pentagon, i.e. there was NO HMX/RDX at Al Al Qaqaa in April 2003!



745 posted on 10/25/2004 9:25:18 PM PDT by big time major leaguer
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To: SE Mom
"At the Pentagon, an official who monitors developments in Iraq said U.S.-led coalition troops had searched Al-Qaqaa in the immediate aftermath of the March 2003 invasion and confirmed that the explosives, under IAEA seal since 1991, were intact. Thereafter, the site was not secured by U.S. forces, the official said, also speaking on condition of anonymity."

Forgive me if I seem rude- but if this is the spin the DNC is going to float, it WILL NOT SUCCEED.


Hear! Hear! I would love to see how many stories in the last year have been attributed to unnamed annonymous sources who spoke on condition of annonymity. I'm not a journalist, but if this is the standard for the MSM, then the National Enquirer has got some great eclusives on the alien who lives in John Kerry's head....
746 posted on 10/25/2004 9:25:35 PM PDT by dannyboy72 (it's time to take on the media)
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To: Stellar Dendrite
Saddam agents on Syria border helped move banned materials" http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040816-011235-4438r.htm

********are you getting that off to Drudge, Rush, Hannity, FOX et al???

747 posted on 10/25/2004 9:27:31 PM PDT by maine-iac7
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To: okiegop

Good grief! Who has to work to make sKerry look bad when he does such a good job just by showing up! Even Clinton can't make him look good--only makes things worse for the dork! "If I Only Had a Brain" Kerry just goes with whichever way the wind is blowing no matter what the facts say--in spite of what the facts say!


748 posted on 10/25/2004 9:27:53 PM PDT by luvie (WE WILL NOT WAVER; WE WILL NOT TIRE; WE WILL NOT FALTER! RE-ELECT GWB!!)
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To: okiegop

The answer is simple: They hate President Bush and they will run with any story to damage him.


749 posted on 10/25/2004 9:28:24 PM PDT by jveritas
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To: bcoffey

BWA HA HA HA!

"Falsely and deliberately distorting the words of journalists?"

Turnabout is fair play, methinks. Both on Kerry and the journalists.


750 posted on 10/25/2004 9:28:34 PM PDT by LibertarianInExile (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: fidelio

No can read----paragraphs are your friend.


751 posted on 10/25/2004 9:29:13 PM PDT by sissyjane (Silk pajamas for dress up, and flannel for everyday-perfect Freeper wardrobe!!)
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To: Thumbellina

I heard on the Beltway Boys two Saturdays ago that Hawaii might elect a Republican Representative to the House of Representatives too. :)


752 posted on 10/25/2004 9:29:34 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (If you're for civil unions, you're for gay marriage)
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To: hobson

NBC News: Miklaszewski: “April 10, 2003, only three weeks into the war, NBC News was embedded with troops from the Army's 101st Airborne as they temporarily take over the Al Qakaa weapons installation south of Baghdad. But these troops never found the nearly 380 tons of some of the most powerful conventional explosives, called HMX and RDX, which is now missing. The U.S. troops did find large stockpiles of more conventional weapons, but no HMX or RDX, so powerful less than a pound brought down Pan Am 103 in 1988, and can be used to trigger a nuclear weapon. In a letter this month, the Iraqi interim government told the International Atomic Energy Agency the high explosives were lost to theft and looting due to lack of security. Critics claim there were simply not enough U.S. troops to guard hundreds of weapons stockpiles, weapons now being used by insurgents and terrorists to wage a guerrilla war in Iraq.” (NBC’s “Nightly News,” 10/25/04)

It's important to distinguish here between conventional ammo etc and the HMX and RDX. No one disputes the fact that there were conventional weapons at Al Qakka. The uproar in all the MSM and DNC outlets was based on the incorrect assumption that the Army found RDX and HMX and did nothing to secure it. As is pointed out in the above report- when the 101st arrived- IT WAS GONE. Make sense now?


753 posted on 10/25/2004 9:30:13 PM PDT by SE Mom (Republican for Red Sox!)
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To: CAluvdubya
Seems to me that if the RATS had anything on our pres for an October surprise, algore would have used it in '00? what's comming out now is just old useless info. Am I wrong?

Sadly, yes, you are mistaken, IMHO. You see, they don't encumber themselves with facts. For them, an October surprise is limited only by their imaginations, access to old IBM Selectric typewriters and, of course, their badly damaged credibility.

754 posted on 10/25/2004 9:30:24 PM PDT by Colorado Doug
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To: jveritas

That's for sure. I don't see how this can do anything but finish off Kerry. I liked the Bush line today about 'Monday morning quarterbacking'.


755 posted on 10/25/2004 9:31:20 PM PDT by okiegop (Freep O'reilly - oreilly@foxnews.com)
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To: maine-iac7
Saddam agents on Syria border helped move banned materials" http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040816-011235-4438r.htm

That would be a Rush "See, I Told You So" moment right there.

756 posted on 10/25/2004 9:32:14 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (If you're for civil unions, you're for gay marriage)
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To: SE Mom

I am confused, just watching replay of Brit's show --- David Folk Thomas came on the LIVE update and told the same "old" story re: the weapons cache. Still not reporting what Drudge has


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757 posted on 10/25/2004 9:33:19 PM PDT by Txsleuth
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To: BigSkyFreeper

WOW. Saddam had agents on the border moving banned materials there? OCTOBER SURPRISE, HERE WE COME! :)


758 posted on 10/25/2004 9:34:17 PM PDT by MichaelTN04
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To: maine-iac7

Sorry, mainiac...this is an old running gag by a Rhodes Scholar, who speaks illiterate . His name is AlBaby. Look it up, relax, and we do respect your dad...and your dad's dad...ad infinitum!!


759 posted on 10/25/2004 9:34:19 PM PDT by international american (Support our troops!! Send Kerry back to Bedlam,Massachusetts!!)
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To: maine-iac7
this is the umpteenth time I've seen "hugh" (snip) Something really big is Huge. ;)

a Belated welcome to FR to you...

Let me explain: saying something is "hugh" is something of a tradition here, an inside joke because of some poor spelling by some Trolls, and then carried forward by the mischievious Freepers who, unlike the left wingers and trolls, have a sense of humor... And I'm series... :)
760 posted on 10/25/2004 9:34:43 PM PDT by Acrobat (Gregoire, Murray, Cantwell, Ross: sounds like the Trotsky bunch put on trial in the USSR in the '20s)
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