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The Los Angeles Times this morning ran an article on the alleged looting of the Al QaQaa explosives. Pivotal to the article, whcih relied on unidentified GI alleged witnesses to the looting, was this: One soldier said U.S. forces watched the looters' trucks loaded with bags marked "hexamine" — a key ingredient for HMX — being driven away from the facility. Unsure what hexamine was, the troops later did an Internet search and learned of its explosive power. "We found out this was stuff you don't smoke around," the soldier said. The trouble is, it's completely bogus. Hexamine isn't an...

A 5 Eyewitness News crew in Iraq may have been just a door away from materials that could be used to detonate nuclear weapons. The evidence is in videotape shot by Reporter Dean Staley and Photographer Joe Caffrey at or near the Al Qaqaa munitions facility. PICTURES AT http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/S3741.html?cat=64 The video shows a cable locking a door shut. That cable is connected by a copper colored seal. A spokesperson for the International Atomic Energy Agency told 5 Eyewitness News that seal appears to be one used by their inspectors. "In Iraq they were used when there was a concern that...

FROM A SOURCE CLOSE TO THE CAMPAIGN (GOOD NEWS FOR BUSH) [10/28 02:07 PM] Just heard from a source close to the campaign, tuned in to the conversations at the highest levels. According to the Bushies, the last few days have seen a huge burst of momentum in their numbers. They think Bush is ahead by a few points nationally. They expect the next round of tracking polls to show a bit of a bump. The internal polls show a significant lead in Florida (outside margin of error) and Arkansas is out of play, with a Bill Clinton visit or...

Last Update: Friday, October 29, 2004. 0:50am (AEST) IAEA defends missing explosives report A report on the amount of conventional explosives missing from an Iraqi storage site did not overstate the stockpile's size as a US media report suggests, the UN nuclear watchdog says. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had said that 342 tonnes of high explosives had disappeared from a site near Baghdad. Iraq told the IAEA the explosives at the sprawling Al Qaqaa military facility had gone missing through theft and looting due to lack of security after the US-led invasion. But ABC News (America) reports that...

Hanoi Kerry and the dims : You still blame the US Troops in IRAQabout missing explosives at Al QaqaaYou have FALSELY accused US Troops of not doing their job. APOLOGIZE NOWHanoi KerryAND DIMS! From a Viet Nam Vet "war criminal" that was there when you were there Hanoi Kerry!

THE WALLS ARE CAVING IN ON HIM: The Kerry people have foolishly decided to run the risk of "running the calendar". In other words they are hoping that time will run out before people that are going to the polls awaken to the fact that Kerry has been lying to them once again, and have the negative backlash. For their part Kerry's friends at the NewYorkTimes and CBSNews have tried to do their part. The problem is - the truth is getting out. First - yesterday one of the commanders of the 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne strongly refuted the claims made...

Russia Denies Involvement in Iraq Weapons 1 hour, 46 minutes ago By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press Writer MOSCOW - Russia angrily denied allegations Thursday that Russian forces had smuggled a cache of high explosives out of Iraq (news - web sites) prior to the U.S. invasion in March 2003. Defense Ministry spokesman Vyacheslav Sedov dismissed the allegations as "absurd" and "ridiculous." "I can state officially that the Russian Defense Ministry and its structures couldn't have been involved in the disappearance of the explosives, because all Russian military experts left Iraq when the international sanctions were introduced during the 1991 Gulf...

Wait a minute — so there were WMDs in Iraq? The Kerry campaign, the media, assorted pundits, and others are making much of the disappearance of the 380 tons of explosives from the Al Qaqaa storage facility south of Baghdad. According to the IAEA, the U.N. watchdog agency now apparently in the service of the Democratic National Committee, some of the explosives could be used to detonate nuclear weapons. Wow — nuclear-weapon components were in Iraq? Shouldn't the headline be, "Saddam Had 'Em?" The opposition really needs to get its story straight. The president cannot be taken to task for...

Sunday, April 6, 2003 Posted: 9:23 PM EDT (0123 GMT) FALLUJAH, Iraq (CNN) -- A convoy of vehicles carrying Russian diplomats and journalists came under fire Sunday as it headed out of Baghdad, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

Nothing further. Freaking Russians ...

Why are the New York Times, CBS and John Kerry hyping a fraudulent story on the missing explosives? Why did CBS state the story would not hold until 48 hours before the election? My opinion is they knew John Kerry’s presidential run was over when the following documents broke on October 26, 2004 if press and public where not all distracted elsewhere. Documentary evidence was reveled on October 26, 2004 establishing that John Kerry worked with the Vietnamese communists while Vietnam War was still ongoing. The documents clearly state: “The spontaneous antiwar movements in the US have received assistance and...

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 27 - Looters stormed the weapons site at Al Qaqaa in the days after American troops swept through the area in early April 2003 on their way to Baghdad, gutting office buildings, carrying off munitions and even dismantling heavy machinery, three Iraqi witnesses and a regional security chief said Wednesday.

<p>Just saw on MSNBC Scarborough Country, Pat Buchanan said that the Wash Times is set to report that Russian Troops helped move the explosives and weapons to Syria before the invasion...</p>

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.

EDITORIAL: The missing weapons Kerry's New York Times 527 committee. Voters are routinely warned to beware the "October surprise" -- some supposed political outrage or scandal revealed only a few days before the November elections, in hopes of starting a panic. On Monday, The New York Times reported the Iraqi interim government has warned the United States and international nuclear inspectors that nearly 380 tons of conventional explosives are now missing from one of Iraq's former military installations, at Al-Qaqaa. Grasping eagerly at the story, Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry -- before the Times had even hit the city's streets...

Copyright 2003 Valley Daily Bulletin   Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA) April 4, 2003 Friday LENGTH: 813 words [SNIP] Troops encounter unknown chemical items As the military advances closer to Baghdad, signs of Iraqichemical preparedness are multiplying, although there is still no conclusive evidence Saddam Hussein's regime possesses weapons of mass destruction. On Friday, troops at a training facility in the westernIraqi desert came across a bottle labeled "tabun" a nerve gas and chemical weapon Iraq is banned from possessing. Closer to Baghdad, troops at Iraq's largest militaryindustrial complex found nerve agent antidotes, documents describing chemical warfare and a...

This is a post by NR writer Cliff May on their "Corner" blog at NRO:~~~~~~~~~~BOMB-GATE [Cliff May] Sent to me by a source in the government: “The Iraqi explosives story is a fraud. These weapons were not there when US troops went to this site in 2003. The IAEA and its head, the anti-American Mohammed El Baradei, leaked a false letter on this issue to the media to embarrass the Bush administration. The US is trying to deny El Baradei a second term and we have been on his case for missing the Libyan nuclear weapons program and for weakness...

<p>News of missing explosives in Iraq -- first reported in April 2003 -- was being resurrected for a 60 MINUTES election eve broadcast designed to knock the Bush administration into a crises mode...</p>