Video shows one bunker door sealed in Iraq
Posted on 10/28/2004 9:52:24 PM PDT by ambrose
Photo, video show Iraqi complex before, after invasion
Items bolster different theories on missing explosives
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two more bits of possible evidence surfaced Thursday in the mystery of the missing Iraqi explosives, but they appear to bolster two different scenarios as to what may have happened to the cache.
The Pentagon released a photo showing activity before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003 outside a bunker at the weapons dump where nearly 380 tons of explosives reportedly disappeared.
While the photo might lend support to but does not prove the Pentagon's theory that the high-grade explosives were moved before the war, a videotape surfaced offering another scenario.
The video, shot by a crew from KSTP-TV in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that was embedded with the 101st Airborne Division, showed barrels of explosives in unguarded bunkers in the Al Qaqaa complex on April 18, 2003, nine days after the fall of Baghdad.
It was unclear, however, if the explosives in the video were of the same types as in the missing cache.
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How do you know the area was not secured?
I think your analysis is spot on. For those few undecided or sway-able voters who are left out there --and who care-- this story is a wash.
The only thing that is indisputably true is that Kerry, the NYT, and CBS are biased and partisan putzes who jumped on a story with little evidence, attempted to undermine our commander-in-chief in extremely perilous times --and, by implication at least, accused American servicemen of being incompetent slackers.
And on top of it all, it reminds people who might have forgotten how Iraq was armed to the teeth.
Exactly!
From Iraq's not having any WMD we now have MSM telling us that these missing explosives could detonate a nuke. OMG
Question to ponder. What explosive was used by the guys at Los Alamos to detonate Fat Man and Little Boy 59 years ago? I don't think it was one of these we're currently so concerned about.
Finally, if some one on FR can check this out. I believe the Coalition in Iraq says that not one IED thus far has used any of these explosives. If that's even close to the truth it needs to be out in the open NOW.
If you review the pictures on the KSTP web site that has the ABC video everyone is using you can see a very clear picture of a seal with its number (#144322). The PDF document of the UN inspections available show the numbers of the seals and none of them have that number. Therefore, it is clear that the bunkers that ABC videoed were not the ones that held the HMX the UN inspected.
500 tons of uranium. Was in the news.
But that was okay, Saddam had to have that, cause, they ain't got no natural resources to use like.....oil.....
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