Well Troll here it is.
Col. John Peabody, engineer brigade commander of the 3rd Infantry Division filed one of many very extensive reports on everything we found at alQaQa. The 3rd ID and the 101st were the first units to arrive, the 3rd ID secured and inspected the site and brought in their Engineering Brigade to document, test and destroy, as needed. The 101st moved on to other objectives.
The site had been swept clean of any hazardous materials before the end of summer 2003 by the U.S. military and then promptly abandoned. Such as the 'reported' condition over a year later.
There are at least 100 stories from March 2003 to September 2003 that can be brought up on Google or Lexus-Nexus that in part or in whole refute what the Times and AP say now. It truly is a perponderance of the evidence that makes the Times story blatantly false.
What is so laughable is that many of those reports from 2003 were filed by the Time's and AP's own reporters! They're calling their own reporters liars?
The Times story is a red herring and Kamp Kerry fell for it.
A fictitious 'source' at the Pentagon that the Times claims is no match for actual film footage and live bodies, with testimonials and official reports, that did indeed secure and inspect the facility.
Game, Set, Match
Wichita Eagle ^
Posted on 10/26/2004 7:33:42 PM CDT by mister_jones
Al-Qaqaa Spokesman Says No Weapons Search
KIMBERLY HEFLING
Associated Press
EVANSVILLE, Ind. - The first U.S. military unit to reach the Al-Qaqaa military installation after the invasion of Iraq did not have orders to search for the nearly 400 tons of explosives that Iraqi officials say were stolen from the site sometime following the fall of Baghdad, the unit spokesman said Tuesday.
When the troops from the 101st Airborne Division's 2nd Brigade arrived at the Al-Qaqaa base a day or so after Baghdad's fall on April 9, 2003, there were already looters throughout the facility, Lt. Col. Fred Wellman, deputy public affairs officer for the unit, told The Associated Press.
The soldiers "secured the area they were in and looked in a limited amount of bunkers to ensure chemical weapons were not present in their area," Wellman wrote in an e-mail message. "Bombs were found but not chemical weapons in that immediate area.
"Orders were not given from higher to search or to secure the facility or to search for HE type munitions, as they (high-explosive weapons) were everywhere in Iraq," he wrote.
His remarks appeared to confirm the observations of an NBC reporter embedded with the army unit who said Tuesday that she saw no signs that the Americans searched for the powerful explosives during their 24 hours at the facility en route to Baghdad, 30 miles to the north.
The disappearance, which the International Atomic Energy Agency reported Monday to the U.N. Security Council, has raised questions about why the United States didn't do more to secure the facility and failed to allow full international inspections to resume after the March 2003 invasion.
On Tuesday, Russia, citing the disappearance, called on the U.N. Security Council to discuss the return of U.N. weapons inspectors to Iraq. But the United States said American inspectors were investigating the loss and that there is no need for U.N. experts to return.
Lots of claims, no sources