Posted on 10/27/2004 8:21:14 PM PDT by DTogo
As soon as this Al-Qaqaa story "broke" I thought of calling my friend (an officer and unit commander attached to the 101st during Operation Iraqi Freedom) to find out what really happened. Well, I just got off the phone with him and after joking that he was directing traffic for all the Iraqi trucks that looted explosives out of Al-Qaqaa, I asked him what this story is really all about.
Turns out several of his unit's men were with the 2nd Brigade that first arrived at Al-Qaqaa, secured it, spent the night, then moved out. The day they left, the 101st Division Command Staff (which my friend was attached to) then moved into Al-Qaqaa and set up temporary HQ for TWO WEEKS! While there he walked around and inside bunkers and saw all sorts of stuff stacked up and lying around: AK-47s, RPGs, rockets, bombs, ammo, and black powder used in making weapons as that's what the Al-Qaqaa facility was - manufacture and storage.
Did he see any IAEA sealed bunkers? No. Did he see anything other than field weapons/munitions? No. Did they allow Iraqis to drive trucks into HQ and help themselves to weapons? Gimme a break! Would the 101st Division Command Staff HQ next to 380 tons of HMX, RDX and PETN during combat? I would think not.
My friend's parting thoughts were that this was likely Kerry's "October Suprise" to be leaked right before the election, leaving the Bush team no time to rebutt or explain, but it got leaked too early. Turns out this highly explosive story is one big DNC dud.
bttt
Understand that I find this report highly interesting and devastating for the Prokerryites (single-celled brainless creatures), but it is also true that Al QaQaa covers many square miles and 11,000 buildings. So the fact that the101st HQ was there doesn't mean that they were necessarily "next to" the "380 bunkers."
MAn rack your friend and his Screaming eagles buddies on smackdown Demos on reall truth of this story rack it
Colonel Anderson, who is now the chief of staff for the 101st and spoke by telephone from Fort Campbell, Ky., said that he did not see any obvious signs of damage when he arrived on April 10, but that his focus was strictly on finding a secure place to collect his troops, who were driving and flying north from Karbala.
"I love the internets!"
Don't forget to tell Al Gore thanks! LOL
That offer was directly from a radio host on a thread with the offer in the title. I'll look around.
**CALLING ALL 101st AIRBORNE MEMBERS, AIRTIME TO TELL YOUR STORY**
Posted by KMC1
On News/Activism 10/26/2004 2:41:23 PM PDT · 69 replies · 1,787+ views
WMCA - New York ^ | 10.26.2004
CALLING ANY 101st Airborne troops: New York Talk Show Host Kevin McCullough will give airtime to any from the 101st who will step forward. Anyone who was in the 101st when you secured the AlQaQaa facility on April4-10, 2003. He wants to hear from you. Please contact via kmc@wmca.com. KMC will give you air-time on Wednesday in New York City and around the world to tell us the truth about what you did in the securing of the munitions dump that is now the subject of controversy and false representation by John Kerry. PLEASE PASS THIS ON to anyone you...
Thanks! You should send this to Hugh Hewitt he was hitting this pretty hard tonight.
They know so little that it's hard to tell.
They'll get their votes counted only if they cast them in person because the dnc army of lawyers will do anything they can to cancel military votes. The enemy of OUR Republic is within, in the party of democrats.
We need to start a pool, buck a guess.
First it was cBS, next the ABC memo, so who's next NBC, PBS, LA Times....?
Gotta be NBC, as it's the three original "networks" that will die off first. All three abused their privilege of media monopoly, so it is natural that they sputter and die, finally. RIP ABC, CBS, NBC!
Has this letter been sent to the media?? the conservative media??
media monopoly
Memories light the corners of my mind
Misty water-colored memories of the way we were
Scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind
Smiles we gave to one another for the way we were.
Can it be that it was all so simple then
Or has time rewritten every line
If we had the chance to do it all again
Tell me, would we?
Could we?
I think I've read of 87 buildings, but 11,000?
Read it again. He said 2nd battalion spent one night there. That's the one with the embedded NBC reporters. Then division HQ setup camp there for 2 weeks. If true I hardly think they'd let anyone within a mile of the place. Hmmm.
My friend's not media-shy, he has done some public speaking engagements in his community about Operation Iraqi Freedom, and I'm sure he'd like another chance to say something positive about America's accomplishments in Iraq and set the record straight.
I told him about Free Republic, how to get started posting here, and I've e-mailed him a link to this thread. He's probably hit the sack now, but I'll give him a ring tomorrow and see what his reaction is.
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