Iraq had no WMDs

Well Miklaszewski was the Pentagon reporter/correspondant which means he was nowhere near Iraq ,so anything he says is secondhand anecdotal info at best.
 
yeah, thats his usual job. ...But on this particular week, he was riding thru the desert with the 101st airborne.

So back to first hand witness.
 
I couldn't find any sites that have him in Iraq ,March30 he was in Washington and then again April 21st.



From your post
NBC News: Miklaszewski: “April 10, 2003, only three weeks into the war, NBC News was embedded with troops from the Army's 101st Airborne as they temporarily take over the Al Qakaa weapons installation south of Baghdad. But these troops never found the nearly 380 tons of some of the most powerful conventional explosives,
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It doesn't say he was there only NBC ,they also spell Al Qaqaa incorrect (as Al Qakaa returns nothing pertainant(sp) in Google)
 
Well, I didn't write my souce and you can't place him anywhere else on that date, so we'll just have to wait for those who do have access to Jimbo's where about on those dates to tell us. You very well may be right thoo, Jim doesn't strike me as the sorta fella that does well in battle situation, live. let it play itself out. :shrug:

As for spellun'; Usama=Osama, Cuttar=Qutar, .... you'll find some of the spelling varies when we read about names and places over there. I would bet we are talking about the same place.



Niter Abby.
 
why must the knee jerk conservatives resort to spin, when the situation, NO MATTER WHO IS AT FAULT, quite deserves a more OH SHIT! reaction. we are talking about enough explosives here to blow up the state of Delaware (yes Im aware no one would miss it). So why has this thread turned into a "gotcha! no ya didnt!" game in the past 24 hours? Im beginning to think that if we find evidence that a bunch of nuclear bombs are in the hands of al-quaeda that the conservatives will be throwing confetti in the air and line dancing in celebration of having such a coup over the heads of the anti war folks. Get some perspective people...

And why are pentagon officials themselves saying in effect well hey we cant guard EVERYTHING if its just a non issue?
 
First...the source of this "leak" is ElBaradei, who hates Bush.

Second-a leak by the UN just days (or weeks) before a national election looks like tampering to me.

Third-The LA Times is reporting that this "NY Times EXCLUSIVE" is actually shared information with...CBS News. 60 Minutes was going to air it Sunday the 31st.

Can you say Kerry Election/mass media collaberation?

Fourth-Say, the last people to see this, to our knowledge, was the UN. Physically, in Jan 2003 & their tags were verified in March 2003. Shouldn't the UN have done their job?

Fifth-Did someone say saddam didn't have WMDs? Then why did he have this weapons cache? The one used to "hide" NUCLEAR fission reseasrch.

Sixth-While the NY Times lie did not include a date but presented the story as recent, NBC had the ethics to report what it knew.
Miklaszewski said:
"April 10, 2003, only three weeks into the war, NBC News was embedded with troops from the Army's 101st Airborne as they temporarily take over the Al Qaqaa weapons installation south of Baghdad. But these troops never found the nearly 380 tons of some of the most powerful conventional explosives, called HMX and RDX, which is now missing."

"The U.S. troops did find large stockpiles of more conventional weapons, but no HMX or RDX, so powerful less than a pound brought down Pan Am 103 in 1988, and can be used to trigger a nuclear weapon,"
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Today, PMSNBC is trying to undermine that credibility. ABC has also picked up the it ain't true slant.

Kudo's to both those news departments.


HELLO!!! 60 Minutes/CBS & NY Times, in bed with the Kerry campaign????

The weapons are in Syria, along with the rest of the goodies.
 
NewsMAX to the rescuse

Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004 10:33 p.m. EDT
Feb. 2003 UN Report: Saddam Moving Explosives From Al-Qaqaa

The United Nations nuclear watchdog group first reported that Saddam Hussein had begun moving stockpiles of explosives from his Al-Qaqaa nuclear weapons facility a month before the U.S. invaded Iraq.

The February 2003 report by the International Atomic Energy Agency, first reported Tuesday by the Fox News Channel, severely undermines claims by the New York Times, CBS News and the Kerry campaign that the Al-Qaqaa explosives went missing only after the U.S. gained control of the facility.

Fox correspondent Bret Baier detailed the chronology of events at Al-Qaqaa for "Special Report with Brit Hume":
* "In January 2003, inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency went to the Al-Qaqaa storage facility, tagging and sealing the large stockpile of powerful conventional explosives, HMX and RDX.

* "In February 2003, IEAE chief Mohamed ElBaradei reported to the United Nations Security Council that some explosives had been removed from Al Qua Quaa - 377 tons remained.

* "On March 8, 2003, IEAE inspectors made their last check of the facility before the war. The IAEA said that included a spot check on some - but not all - of the sealed explosives.

* "The war started March 19. After the Army's third division moved through here on their way to Baghdad, the first US troops stopped in to Al-Qaqaa on April 9.

* "A Reuters camera crew embedded with the Scouts from the 101st Airborne Division arrived at the storage facility, did a quick search noting a number of bunkers filled with explosives - but nothing marked by the IAEA.

* "On April 10, the Second Brigade of the 101st arrived there and spent the night.. An NBC crew was with them. A cursory search was conducted. Again, nothing marked or tagged by the IAEA was spotted. The Second Brigade left the next day, pushing forward to Baghdad.

* "US weapons inspectors, the Iraq Survey Group, arrived at the site on May 27, conducting a full search of the 32 bunkers - and they did not find any of the IAEA-marked explosives."

Baier's report continued:

"If one large truck contains ten tons, US commanders say it's highly unlikely that insurgents managed to take 38 truckloads worth of explosives out of the facility in that time.

"The roads were filled with convoys pushing to Baghdad, clogged with supplies and communications lines stretching all the way back to Kuwait - all being watched closely by unmanned aerial vehicles like the Jointstars and the Predators to protect the troops rear flank and to spot unusual activity.

"Defense Secretary Rumsfeld - asked about the missing explosives in a radio interview today - said the specifics are under investigation by the Iraq Survey Group. But he chose to point out that Saddam Hussein moved many weapons and explosives before the war."
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Of course you realize that, if the soldiers had started shooting the looters, there'd be a whole different stink, wouldn't there? Personally, I think they should've detonated the place as soon as they found it...but I wasn't at Al Aqaa (sp?)...
 
Gato_Solo said:
Personally, I think they should've detonated the place as soon as they found it...but I wasn't at Al Aqaa (sp?)...
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That's exactly what I've been wonder all this time.
Why didn't they drop some Jdams on those suckers right off, at the beginning of the war?
 
Gato_Solo said:
Of course you realize that, if the soldiers had started shooting the looters, there'd be a whole different stink, wouldn't there? Personally, I think they should've detonated the place as soon as they found it...but I wasn't at Al Aqaa (sp?)...
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Don't you wonder why the US Gov. was reporting that all the HMX was gone before the US arrived when in fact they were watching it disappear.
 
Why is this thread still alive. It's those that live in the past that are doomed to relive the future. Who give's a shit?! Tomorrow should be concerned with today not yesterday.
 
HeXp£Øi± said:
Why is this thread still alive. It's those that live in the past that are doomed to relive the future. Who give's a shit?! Tomorrow should be concerned with today not yesterday.
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Tomorrow those stolen explosives could and most very likely will be used against coalition forces.

Note : This has come to light after the election and is being put out by FOXNEWS ,so saying its a Kerry/Leftwing ploy doesn't work anymore.
 
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