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BigPapaSmurf
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 Posted - 10/29/2004 : 08:43:58
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Ok so it was originally reported that 700,000 # of Super primo explosives was missing from a site in Iraq, UN had warned the US to protect the site. Reports of looting still going on as of last saturday.
Pentagon denies, says site was empty when they got there.
Senior official at pentagon insists that Russian special forces helped move the stuff to Syria.
Pentagon says ^that guy smokin crack no evidence for that.
Admin uses the missing time defense of there were three weeks between the last Seal inspection and the time the troops got there.
Three workers at the site all say that looting only took place after the fall of baghdad, including locals renting trucks to looters.
Pentagon releases photo of trucks at the bunker. They claim this undatable photo proves it was moved before.
Yesterday ABC airs footage made by a tv crew that was with the US troops when they did the original inspection in April: Tape shows the opening of bunkers and a huge supply of explosives still there nine days after the fall of baghdad. Confiring the "Wild charges" of Mr. Kerry's campaign. The video shows troops breaking into bunkers and opening boxes and barrels marked "Explosives" and one box is marked "Al-Qaqaa State Establishment".
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/29/politics/29bomb.html?ei=5065&en=9b3f4b6995f82009&ex=1099627200&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print&position=
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 10/29/2004 : 10:54:30 [Permalink]
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| Foxnews is now reporting that US soldiers are claiming to have removed 250 tonnes of material from the site, strange how they waited till that tape showed up.. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Valiant Dancer
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Posted - 10/29/2004 : 10:58:44 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
Foxnews is now reporting that US soldiers are claiming to have removed 250 tonnes of material from the site, strange how they waited till that tape showed up..
Thats nice. They still need 130 tons. And it does bring into question the release of the information by the Pentagon that they don't know where it was. Political? Probably.
Kinda makes you wonder what the administration wanted to do with it.
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@tomic
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Posted - 10/29/2004 : 11:26:16 [Permalink]
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Isn't it strange how the Pentagon keeps changing its story every time they are countered with film? You start wondering what the truth is or if you can trust the Pentagon. No matter what, they do good things. A photo or video shows up questioning the validity of that and they come out with a back up story. That's show to be false and they go to plan C.
So they moved it. Where to? For what? Who moved it?
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 11/07/2004 : 00:57:12 [Permalink]
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sigh.....but they voted to block gay marriages.....so much more worrisome
Pentagon lying to cover up incompetence? Who'd of thought it?
Daily Show had it down, quoting Bush that, "if Kerry had his way, Saddam would still have those explosives and could give them to the terrorists". So, uh, don't the terrorists have the explosives now?
sigh...faded right out of the news along with all the other incredible incompetencies
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