101st HQ'd in Al-Qaqaa for Two Weeks! (Vanity - Just spoke with someone who was there)

Soldier in Iraq with the 101st | 10-27-04 | DTogo

[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.

[DTogo]

He'd like to! But he doesn't have time to try to get on - he's got a fulltime day job. Can we help him get on?

[Chieftain]

Copy and paste the stuff he said with his phone number and email it to Hannity!

[BykrBayb]

Did you know Kerry just stepped into deep doo doo??:)

I thought he was the doo doo. The doo doo just stepped into deep Qaqaa.

[international american]

Well stated!!

[DTogo]

I've sent this story and link around to several major conservative media outlets, including Hannity. If they're "lurking" here they're welcome to pass along a direct means of communication to me through the Admin Moderator or Jim Robinson (for authentication) and I will get it to my friend in a matter of minutes for him to contact them (or vice versa).

As I said, he told me this morning he'd love to talk and expose the truth (his wife also wants him to!), but he's also modest, and I respect his privacy.

[DennisR]

Well, after all, this soldier is only a "kid" - what do you expect?

Note to JFK: Can't wait to send you back to the Senate where you could only muster 11 "measures" in your 20 years there. Your senatorial resume - which you hardly/rarely discuss - is absolutely and unequivocally pathetic. What exactly were you doing those 20 years? Oh - playing hockey, windsurfing, snowboarding, biking, and visiting one of your many mansions. You did not have time for all of that "job-related" stuff, did you?

[cgk]

And DU says there is a jihadist video claiming to have these explosives given to them by American Intelligence.

Riiiiight.

[Peach]

Oh, sheesh. What do those people drink over there?

[GOPJ]

bump

[rocklobster11]

Does your friend know anything about the embedded reporters from a Minneapolis stations that have some film of them going thru some bunkers on April 18? Also, does he know anything about when the IAEA seals were broken on the bunkers in question (April 18 video shows a bunker with a seal, but it was not opened on April 18)?