Iraq had no WMDs

[ResearchMonkey]

Notice the date of the initial report that the information comes from.

NBC News: Miklaszewski: April 10, 2003

As of that day'ish US troops arrived with NBC News correspondant Miklaszewski the weapons were already gone.

So if you decide hold breath and wait for the other "newer" truth to come out, please take some pictures and post them for me.



Whoops, it must be a conspiracy fer sure now.

NBCNEWS: HUGE CACHE OF EXPLOSIVES VANISHED FROM SITE IN IRAQ -- AT LEAST 18 MONTHS AGO -- BEFORE TROOPS ARRIVED ​

Developing...

 

[ResearchMonkey]

Per Leslies story

Chief Mohammed ElBaradei is reporting that 342 tons of high explosives

That would cover all but 50-tons right there.

Time will tell thoo, we prolly blew up the conventional stuff. Is all going to come out in the wash.

(Gosh I like werking for the guys in the white hats.)

 

[Leslie]

something smells here.

when was it that the weapons inspectors were pulled out? I don't remember.

 

[ResearchMonkey]

I think is was more like "when did Saddam pull-out of the inspectors"

 

[Leslie]

U.N. weapons inspectors climbed aboard a plane and pulled out of Iraq March 18th. So that gives a feasible 3 weeks for them to be in and gone. Under bombfall.

It's possible, but meh somethin still smells.

and if that's how it went down, back to my original comment...

good thing these were taken out of Saddam's hands before the bad guys got em

 

[A.B.Normal]

A Pentagon official said the Iraq Survey Group - the CIA task force that searched for unconventional weapons - had been ordered to investigate the disappearance of the explosives.
They are thought to have been taken from the al-Qaqaa complex, 25km (16 miles) south of Baghdad, at some point after 9 April 2003.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3950493.stm

 

[ResearchMonkey]

at some point after 9 April 2003.

And Jimmy arrrived on the tenth. Not much time to move near 400 ton's of hi-explosives.

So either the even keeled BBC is wrong in their reporting ----or--- Jimmy is liar in his reporting.

And since Saddam knew exactly when and where the UN-inspectors would be, my guess is that he had plenty of time to move 'em.

 

[Leslie]

http://www.drudgereport.com/

A top Bush official e-mailed DRUDGE late Monday:

 

[ResearchMonkey]

All that great political fodder ruined by the truth again, darn!

**ABCNEWS Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 4 Times
**CBSNEWS Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 7 Times
**MSNBC Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 37 Times
**CNN Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 50 Times

As far as those dates you're so feverishly looking for Les.

But tonight, NBCNEWS reported, once: The 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives were already missing back in April 10, 2003 -- when U.S. troops arrived at the installation south of Baghdad!

An NBCNEWS crew embedded with troops moved in to secure the Al-Qaqaa weapons facility on April 10, 2003, one day after the liberation of Iraq.
According to NBCNEWS, the HMX and RDX explosives were already missing when the American troops arrived.

-then-

The International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors last saw the explosives in January 2003 when they took an inventory and placed fresh seals on the bunkers.

this is my favorite quote from Drudge

It is not clear why the NYTIMES failed to report the cache had been missing for 18 months -- and was reportedly missing before troops even arrived.

Gee I wonder why the NYT ran to press with wet-dreams.




. . and Les, how long have been holding on to that pic waiting for "the right moment"? Are you disappointed you didn't get to slap in on Gonz. (...or have you already done that, far too mant times)

 

[Leslie]

I showed Gonz, once - it was your turn to see it

you said that already...I knew all those dates, and found the ones I was lookin for, hence my 3 weeks feasible but meh post.

U.N. weapons inspectors climbed aboard a plane and pulled out of Iraq March 18th. So that gives a feasible 3 weeks for them to be in and gone. Under bombfall.

It's possible, but meh somethin still smells.

and if that's how it went down, back to my original comment...

good thing these were taken out of Saddam's hands before the bad guys got em

 

[ResearchMonkey]

you realy like to make me werk at it don'tcha' I like that you came to that fine conclusion that there was a 3-week window to consider.... But uh.

The International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors last saw the explosives in January 2003 when they took an inventory and placed fresh seals on the bunkers .

---and---

The 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives were already missing back in April 10, 2003

Lets say it together here Les, 3-MONTHS not 3-weeks . . . MONTHS

 

[Leslie]

you realy like to make me werk at it don'tcha' I like that you came to that fine conclusion that there was a 3-week window to consider.... But uh.


Lets say it together here Les, 3-MONTHS not 3-weeks . . . MONTHS

March 18th through April 10th. 3 WEEKS.

 

[A.B.Normal]

So then why are the US even bothering to investigate if they know they weren't there on April 10,.

 

[Leslie]

cause....

The letter informed the IAEA that since Sept. 4, 2003, looting at the Al-Qaqaa installation south of Baghdad had resulted in the loss of 214.67 tons of HMX, 155.68 tons of RDX and 6.39 tons of PETN explosives.

HMX and RDX can be used to demolish buildings, down jetliners, produce warheads for missiles and detonate nuclear weapons. HMX and RDX are key ingredients in plastic explosives, such as C-4 and Semtex — substances so powerful that Libyan terrorists needed just 1 pound to blow up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing 170 people.

ElBaradei’s cover letter to the council said that the HMX had been under IAEA seal and that the RDX and PETN were “both subject to regular monitoring of stock levels.”

“The presence of these amounts was verified by the IAEA in January 2003,” he said.

At the Pentagon, an official who monitors developments in Iraq said U.S.-led coalition troops had searched Al-Qaqaa in the immediate aftermath of the March 2003 invasion and confirmed that the explosives, which had been under IAEA seal since 1991, were intact. The site was not secured by U.S. forces, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6323933

 

[ResearchMonkey]

March 18th

. . . is when the inspectors left, January was the last time they were at tht site. That would be a threee month window, not weeks

 

[A.B.Normal]

an official who monitors developments in Iraq said U.S.-led coalition troops had searched Al-Qaqaa in the immediate aftermath of the March 2003 invasion and confirmed that the explosives, which had been under IAEA seal since 1991, were intact.

 

[ResearchMonkey]

Thats funny, your anonymous source surely does conflict with the report that came from an NBC reporter THAT WAS THERE THAT DAY AND REPORTED ON THAT DAY when the US took that place.

 

[ResearchMonkey]

How about this for trumping the anonymous source that say's "the explosives were sealed since 1991", a second time.

The nuclear agency pulled out of Iraq in 1998, and by the time it returned in 2002, it confirmed that 35 tons of HMX that had been placed under IAEA seal were missing. HMX and RDX are the key components in plastic explosives, which insurgents have widely used in a series of bloody car bombings in Iraq.

SD Trib.

 

[A.B.Normal]

Well I've been searching NBC news for anything on Miklaszewski's comments but can't find a thing .Odd to say the least

 

[ResearchMonkey]

Well damn! must not be true then! (j/k)

Give it time Abby, check the classifieds, page 34 in the NYT in two weeks, there might be a reatraction there printed in the fold.

NBC is the one that broke the story on TV, it may take a little bit to get their ducks in order to print it (web), their not as fast as the NYT when they have Bush hit piece.