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Fox News reporting marines find "weapons grade plutonium"
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Posted on 04/10/2003 10:24:53 AM PDT by JustRight

On TV right now.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: atomic; blix; cia; elbaradei; fedayeen; frenchfingerprints; frenchnuclear; hamza; iaea; illegalweapons; iraq; iraqinuclear; marines; nuclear; plutonium; radiation; seegar; truncheon; tuwaitha; un; underground; war; warlist
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
There are days where Fox makes DEBKA look respectable.
261 posted on 04/10/2003 11:26:38 AM PDT by Poohbah (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
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To: Poohbah
FOX interviewing Pittsburg Tribune Review reporter on site in Iraq. He was in the right place for the find. What more do you want? They are saying what "they believe" is weapons grade plutonium and "interesting other things".

Good be old..could be new materials. It is where the missile waters were pointed out by civilians. Doesn't mean anything..then again could be of interest.

F_T_D

262 posted on 04/10/2003 11:26:43 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay (occupied)
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To: MamaLucci
Anybody seen Rita Crosby since she leaked out the Jaguar encryption secret?
263 posted on 04/10/2003 11:27:20 AM PDT by oyez (Is this a great country or what?)
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To: fight_truth_decay
I'm just saying that Fox has been awful quick to release reports, only to have to say "Uh...nevermind."
264 posted on 04/10/2003 11:27:51 AM PDT by Poohbah (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
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To: Robe
Damn, you had ME fooled, in my minds eye I had you in a white lab coat etc<p. LOL, I got a C+ in cemistry.....well I Aced Astro, Calc, Geometry, FPS, etc...
265 posted on 04/10/2003 11:27:52 AM PDT by finnman69 (!)
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To: dfwgator
< s t r i k e o u t >Saddam doesn't have any links to terrorists

Saddam wasn't responsible for 9/11

Saddam has no Weapons of Mass Destuction

We will kill a lot of innocent civilians

This war is a quagmire

US Troops will not be welcomed< / s t r i k e o u t >

OK Liberals, what's your excuse now????

>>> War Is Bad.

266 posted on 04/10/2003 11:28:47 AM PDT by homeagain balkansvet
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To: Poohbah
There are days where Fox makes DEBKA look respectable.

heh, could not have been said any better. I think they try to jump on stuff before it's clear, to trump the other stations, but it does set them up to make big mistakes/miscalls.

267 posted on 04/10/2003 11:29:06 AM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: Quick1
How long before someone puts out captions side by side, or below each other:

Murdoch-owned entities?

NY Post - Headless Woman Found in Topless Bar
FOX - Nuclear Facility Found...

Comments like... they're both sensationalism, but for REAL journalism, turn to CNN, MSNBC, etc.
268 posted on 04/10/2003 11:29:36 AM PDT by NYC Republican
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To: freedomson
Actually, only morning and noon.

I don't Freep *nearly* as much as I once did, though.
That's how I worked in time to become a father and also to keep my full-time job! LOL.

269 posted on 04/10/2003 11:30:37 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Starrgaizr
I stand corrected. Makes very good sense. Fox news said they had to do more tests to see if it was "weapons grade," which I guess in this context means plutonium.
270 posted on 04/10/2003 11:30:59 AM PDT by FreeTheHostages
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To: fight_truth_decay
The key aspect is that there currently does not exist an actual text article on this, saying "plutonium" anywhere in the story.

And you've got a reporter who likely doesn't know an atom from his own rear-end talking to some Marine who likely has no PR experience or training who says "they believe" they've found some weapons-grade plutonium.
271 posted on 04/10/2003 11:31:36 AM PDT by John H K
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To: ScholarWarrior; dighton; aculeus; general_re; L,TOWM; hellinahandcart; Constitution Day
"It still keeps the basement of the library warm during the winter....Nuclear power is our friend -- o-)"

Not to mention the entertainment value of watching the three-foot long cockroaches fight with the six-foot rats over left-over cheetos.

272 posted on 04/10/2003 11:31:37 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Der Elite Møøsenspåånkængruppen ØberKømmååndø (EMØØK))
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To: Badabing Badaboom
Don't get me wrong -- I bet it is weapons grade. I'm just saying that, contrary to the title of the thread, FOX news didn't say exactly that. They're still testing.

But I'd bet it is.
273 posted on 04/10/2003 11:31:41 AM PDT by FreeTheHostages
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To: NYC Republican
Actually, I think MSNBC has done the best job of covering the war. I especially liked David Bloom's reports, it's too bad he's gone.
274 posted on 04/10/2003 11:32:08 AM PDT by Quick1
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To: oyez
I can't stand her! Hate her voice, looks, and the way she's so prententious... Always saying "HER" sources, and "I'm being told", over and over and over again.

She was the only one I saw who referred to the Jaquar system. Good move, if was being monitored before, we've just tipped our hand, without even being sure if we got him.

275 posted on 04/10/2003 11:32:21 AM PDT by NYC Republican
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To: JustRight
People, please...I'm sure that France, Russia, China or the liberals in this country have a perfectly reasonable explanation:


276 posted on 04/10/2003 11:32:26 AM PDT by scott7278 (Four more years! Four more years!)
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To: oyez
Anybody seen Rita Crosby

She's probably chasing down her "sources"

277 posted on 04/10/2003 11:32:31 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
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To: mewzilla
I'm not expert. I gather that not everything that is radioactive is weapons grade. I've been told in this thread that plutonium would be. I assume they're testing to see if it's plutonium, in particular.
278 posted on 04/10/2003 11:32:31 AM PDT by FreeTheHostages
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To: conservababeJen
*sigh*

Liberal friends I can handle (barely), but liberal family members? That would drive me crazy.

279 posted on 04/10/2003 11:33:16 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee (const vector<tag>& theTags)
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To: Quick1
I also thought they did the best job during the 911 disaster as well.

If we're being critical of FOX, just imagine how the "mainstream" media, and the average guy on the street (who's usually very impressionable) feels about them.
280 posted on 04/10/2003 11:33:39 AM PDT by NYC Republican
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