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Debs · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 11:00 pm Post subject:

Brit also pointed out that Dana Lewis had said the site had been heavily bombed and big craters were visible there - so maybe our bombing destroyed the explosives, if they were even really there.

And Krauthammer was great, as usual. Smile

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Rdtf · CNO Joined: 13 May 2004 Posts: 2209 Location: BUSHville

NBC is doing it now on the nightly news. Opening story. Sounds like they are standing by their story. But - seems they feel they are being used by the Bush Admin to clear Bush. Still saying no hard intel to prove either way.

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shawa · CNO Joined: 03 Sep 2004 Posts: 2004

NBC really backed away. Brokaw was defensive. Said people
were using their report to prove the weapons weren't there.
He said you have to look carefully at what was said.
That Mikalezewski said the troops didn't find weapons there, but
that he DID NOT say the the troops searched for weapons.

He must have taken lessons from Clinton, depends on what is
is! Then went to the girl reporter that was embedded and she
said THE TROOPS DID NOT SEARCH FOR WEAPONS.

Anker-Klanker · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 11:24 pm Post subject:

One of the significant points in today's revelations is that no one knows what happened to those explosives - AND MOST CERTAINLY NOT THE DNC AND KERRY!!!

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noc · PO1 Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 492 Location: Dublin, CA

AP is repeating NBC backtrack

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Iraq%20Weapons

Al-Qaqaa spokesman says no weapons search

By KIMBERLY HEFLING
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- The first U.S. military unit to reach the Al-Qaqaa military installation after the invasion of Iraq did not have orders to search for the nearly 400 tons of explosives that Iraqi officials say were stolen from the site sometime following the fall of Baghdad, the unit spokesman said Tuesday.

When the troops from the 101st Airborne Division's 2nd Brigade arrived at the Al-Qaqaa base a day or so after Baghdad's fall on April 9, 2003, there were already looters throughout the facility, Lt. Col. Fred Wellman, deputy public affairs officer for the unit, told The Associated Press.

The soldiers "secured the area they were in and looked in a limited amount of bunkers to ensure chemical weapons were not present in their area," Wellman wrote in an e-mail message. "Bombs were found but not chemical weapons in that immediate area.

"Orders were not given from higher to search or to secure the facility or to search for HE type munitions, as they (high-explosive weapons) were everywhere in Iraq," he wrote.

His remarks appeared to confirm the observations of an NBC reporter embedded with the army unit who said Tuesday that she saw no signs that the Americans searched for the powerful explosives during their 24 hours at the facility en route to Baghdad, 30 miles to the north.

The disappearance, which the International Atomic Energy Agency reported Monday to the U.N. Security Council, has raised questions about why the United States didn't do more to secure the facility and failed to allow full international inspections to resume after the March 2003 invasion.

On Tuesday, Russia, citing the disappearance, called on the U.N. Security Council to discuss the return of U.N. weapons inspectors to Iraq. But the United States said American inspectors were investigating the loss and that there is no need for U.N. experts to return.

...cont.

URGENT:

They keep repeating this assertion:

"Iraq's Ministry of Science and Technology told the IAEA the explosives disappeared sometime after coalition forces took control of Baghdad on April 9, 2003."

But the fact is that there is NO evidence that this is the case. The DOD has reported that the military searched the site on April 10th, 2003 and did not find any HE with UN seals.

We need to echo this.

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Oct2004/n10262004_2004102606.html

However, coalition forces found no evidence of the weapons in question when they first arrived at the sprawling Al-Quaqaa facility, 30 miles south of Baghdad, about April 10, 2003, according to a defense official.

The troops searched 32 bunkers and 87 other buildings, finding some weapons and explosive material, but nothing close to the quantity reported missing by the Iraqi government, and none with IAEA seals, he said.

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http://www.nationalreview.com/kerry/kerry200410261714.asp

Otis · Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 12:46 am Post subject:

Rdtf · CNO Joined: 13 May 2004 Posts: 2209 Location: BUSHville

remember there were so many people sick as dogs after the gulf war? And it took the US military forever to acknowledge the 'gulf war syndrome?' Wasn't there a conclusion drawn that he was using something against our troops then?

PC · Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 12:49 am Post subject: Hugh Hewitt

Bernard Kerik, former NYC police cheif who was in Iraq comments:

http://hughhewitt.com/#postid777

truthserum · Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 12:52 am Post subject:

The scariest thing about this whole new episode of the media attempting to take down Bush, is that the collusion follows -Baredei to Kerry to NYT to CBS to LAT to , in other words it almost appears that somehow Kerry was colluding with baredei and the UN to take out Bush. In other words the UN is attempting to move in upon us even prior to the election.
I don't know about all of you, but I feel scared out of my wits over this.
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Rdtf · CNO Joined: 13 May 2004 Posts: 2209 Location: BUSHville