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BREAKING: Satellite images reveal heavy truck activity at Al QaQaa prior to Iraq war
FNC | 10/27/04 | Bret Baer

Posted on 10/27/2004 3:11:23 PM PDT by Steven W.

Brett Baer on FNC reports that the Pentagon is reviewing sattelite imagery which reveals considerable truck activity in the days leading up to the Iraq war. The DoD is considering releasing the photographs.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alqaqaa; ammogate; bush; cbs; dod; explosives; iraq; kerry; nyt; nytrogate; pentagon; qaqaagate; satellites
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To: 4x2Bush

I seem to remember the UN couldn't hightail it out of Iraq fast enough.


121 posted on 10/27/2004 3:26:18 PM PDT by antceecee (God Bless President Bush. FOUR MORE YEARS!)
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To: 4x2Bush

"The argument is that the UN should have stayed and guarded the explosives."

The UN should have destroyed these explosives 10 years back knowing it was to be used for Nuclear Weapons. Yea, they should have stayed and sunk along the ship they created.


122 posted on 10/27/2004 3:26:24 PM PDT by tobyhill (The war on terrorism is not for the weak!)
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To: samadams2000
We have lots of capability, but that does not mean we can track every truck movement throughout a country the size of Iraq. Satellites make passes over an area, etc, and thus you get limited hours and locations. To track these trucks to their eventually destination, especially when at that time we were not certain what was in them, would have likely required our "focusing" extra intel capability/satellite imagery capacity on just those trucks, at the expense of many other areas we were watching.

Many people think we can watch everything all the time. Not true. We have great capability, but for limited durations of time and we must prioritize what we are looking at---you can not see everything at once. Sort of like looking outside with a telescope. What you see you see well...but you do not see 100% of what is out there.
123 posted on 10/27/2004 3:26:39 PM PDT by June Cleaver (in here, Ward . . .)
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To: 4x2Bush

B.S.! The U.N. should have destroyed the explosives years before the Iraq war!


124 posted on 10/27/2004 3:26:53 PM PDT by texasmountainman (proud father of a U.S. Marine)
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To: Peach

He will then change the mantra to we didn't go in soon enough. If Bush would have built a real coalition sooner, we could have stopped this.


125 posted on 10/27/2004 3:27:45 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: unspun

The DUmmies are saying Powell showed phtos at the UN also.


126 posted on 10/27/2004 3:28:13 PM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: Steven W.
I think the duplicity is apparent for all to see and this has been excellent opportunity to put Kerry's foolishness on display.

So true but, I'm not one who likes roller coaster rides all that much and don't know how much more I can stomach between now and next week.

127 posted on 10/27/2004 3:28:21 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: 4x2Bush
I don't see how this helps us. The argument is that the UN should have stayed and guarded the explosives.

Ha! UN my a$$.

129 posted on 10/27/2004 3:29:17 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: MichelleWSC

---The higher Kerry flew with this the further he falls

Yep. Bush gets to discredit him and the MSM in one fell swoop

130 posted on 10/27/2004 3:29:18 PM PDT by Truth Table
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To: DocRock; Steven W.
Don't forget the ANTHRAX BOMBS we found there in 2003!

USA Today: 12/3/2003:, Canoe, news
On another issue, UNMOVIC said advanced testing and analysis had indicated that the strain of anthrax found on R400 bombs that Iraq declared that it unilaterally destroyed was the same strain that it had earlier declared to have weaponized.

131 posted on 10/27/2004 3:29:24 PM PDT by cgk (I'll keep posting it until you READ IT. Pay attention!)
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To: Peach
what else is there the DNC can say about this that would hurt Bush?

Nothing, really.
132 posted on 10/27/2004 3:29:30 PM PDT by BJClinton (We need a President who will stand up to the trial lawyers in Washington, not put one on the ticket.)
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To: Steven W.

Unless otherwise posted....

There was a 48 hour deadline issued to Hussain..... Sat. images most likely during this time: WE COULD NOT STRIKE.

If posted.. Sorry


133 posted on 10/27/2004 3:29:35 PM PDT by BurbankErnie (I am an oxymoron - a California Republican)
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To: RtWngr
The people that believe we lost the stuff aren't interested in the truth.

Bingo. We have a winner.

People have to remember that the RATS think like spoiled little children, not adults.

134 posted on 10/27/2004 3:29:40 PM PDT by snopercod (Inflation, it's how wars are paid for.)
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To: Steven W.

WooHoo! Yes, yes yes!!


135 posted on 10/27/2004 3:29:53 PM PDT by highlandbreeze
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To: samadams2000
"And where does our great satelite imagery tell us it went???? Are we asleep at the wheel again?"

In the case of Al QaQaa, it's a fixed position, much easier to zoom in on with every pass. It's a lot harder to reaquire a moving vehicle when it takes 90 minutes for the satellite to orbit and be in position again

136 posted on 10/27/2004 3:30:07 PM PDT by cookcounty (Kerry launched his career by trashing the VN Vets. He ends by trashing the NG. Such class.)
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To: finnman69
. . . Even Mz. Teri has a hard time matching the financial resources of the DOD when it comes to supporting documentation.
137 posted on 10/27/2004 3:30:24 PM PDT by pointsal
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To: Steven W.
BREAKING: Satellite images reveal heavy truck activity at Al QaQaa prior to Iraq war

But wouldn't this conflict with the "unimpeachable" Dan Rather's delusion?

138 posted on 10/27/2004 3:30:47 PM PDT by F16Fighter
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To: Steve_Seattle
I worry sometimes that the Republicans (for lack of a better term) sit back and "take it" much too often and much too easily.

This story gives me hope.

Consider: these pic's are not new. A reactionary overzealous president may have been tempted to run this type of information out during the, "you lied about the WMD", hype.

Instead, they can be used (can't wait to hear the cover story on the source) as helpful information to "investigate" the timing of the weapons disappearance.

139 posted on 10/27/2004 3:30:54 PM PDT by ez2muz
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To: Steven W.
Nothing new here.

CBS and NYT already reported trucks taking things out of Iraq.

"...One report cited by The New York Times says a convoy of tractor-trailers crossed into Syria, but the contents of the trucks was unknown. ..."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/07/iraq/main552690.shtml?CMP=ILC-SearchStories

140 posted on 10/27/2004 3:30:55 PM PDT by Vortex (Garbage in, Garbage Out)
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