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Originally Posted by athletics
If it was, then I didn't see it. On their tv coverage it was all about missing weapons. No mention on the time frame.
In other news...there is a big domestic October Surprise that is going to break open in the next few days. The Bush administration has lost a river that flows through Arizona, leaving a very grand canyon. How do you lose a river? Poor environment policies and Halliburton, thats how.
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Friends, we're experiencing what it must have been like to try to stay
informed if you were living in old Soviet Russia. Bushco seems desperate to
spin the missing explosives story out of it's realm of responsibility.......
drudgereport.com led with a large lettered link at the top of the web pages
yesterday that an NBC news reporter embedded with U.S. invasion forces
has reported that the explosives were "already gone when U.S. troops arrives
at al qaqaa on April 10, 2003. CNN picked up the story and displsyed it as it's
headline story on it's web site last night until 8:00 AM EST today. My skepticism
increased when I observed that, outside of a video report of this story, there
was nothing on MSNBC's website comparable to CNN's feature.
My opinion is that CNN was involved in a transparent effort to aid the Bush
administration in minimizing the fallout from the explosives story by featuring
an NBC reporter's claim that Bushco did not even have an opportunity to
secure the explosives in the first place, at the same time NBC news did not
have enough confidence that the story was signifigant enough to lead with.
The main weakness in the story below is that I have posted three stories
above, including one from the state department's own website that establish
that U.S. troops were at the El Qa Qaa with the 3rd Infantry Division on
April 4, 2003, 6 days before the NBC reporter Lai Ling, embedded with the
101st Airborne division arrived there.
<a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/iraq/20030404-1742-war-chemicalfinds.html">http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/iraq/20030404-1742-war-chemicalfinds.html</a>
<a href=" http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83252,00.html"> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83252,00.html</a>
<a href="http://usembassy-australia.state.gov/hyper/2003/0404/epf504.htm">http://usembassy-australia.state.gov/hyper/2003/0404/epf504.htm</a>
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Posted on Tue, Oct. 26, 2004
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Embedded NBC reporter says no indication U.S. soldiers searched an Iraqi site for explosives now missing
NEW YORK (AP) - An NBC News reporter embedded with a U.S. army unit that seized an Iraqi installation three weeks into the war said Tuesday that she saw no signs that the Americans searched for the powerful explosives that are now missing from the site.
Reporter Lai Ling Jew, who was embedded with the Army's 101st Airborne, Second Brigade, said her news team stayed at the Al-Qaqaa base for about 24 hours.
``There wasn't a search,'' she told MSNBC, an NBC cable news channel. ``The mission that the brigade had was to get to Baghdad. That was more of a pit stop there for us. And, you know, the searching, I mean certainly some of the soldiers head off on their own, looked through the bunkers just to look at the vast amount of ordnance lying around.
``But as far as we could tell, there was no move to secure the weapons, nothing to keep looters away.''
On Monday night, NBC reported that its embedded crew said U.S. troops did discover significant stockpiles of bombs, but no sign of the missing HMX and RDX explosives.............
.......That raised the possibility that the explosives had disappeared before U.S. soldiers could secure the site in the immediate invasion aftermath.
However, 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.
The NBC team accompanied the 101st Airborne at Al-Qaqaa the following day -- on April 10, 2003.
Lai Ling told MSNBC that there was no talk among the 101st of securing the area after they left.
She said the roads were cut off ``so it would have been very difficult, I believe, for the looters to get there.''
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The drudgereport.com emphasis on this story yesterday and the CNN
followup "major headline" treatment seems to reveal a transparent CNN
effort to run a damage contol operation for Bush and his campaign. Much
information at these links below to further strenghten this accusation:
<a href="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_10_24.php#003804">http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_10_24.php#003804</a>
<a href="http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Al_Qaqaa_Weapons_Cache">http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Al_Qaqaa_Weapons_Cache</a>