(NBC's)Embedded Reporter Saw No Explosives Search

[maddezmom]

NEW YORK - 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."

more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041026/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_weapons_nbc&cid=540&ncid=1480

[aquart]

1. In other words, NBC knows nothing.

They have no idea what was at that site.

[AIJ Alom]

2. How could we secure the weapons when we had to rush to Baghdad to secure

the oil ministry !!! Jeez our military got hosed and now they are paying for it ! Support our troops ! Dump W !

[Sean Reynolds]

3. HAHA, and the Freepers were so excited by the news......

Now it's all blowing up in their faces!

[Tempest]

4. You mean *gasp* Drudge was lying?

Say it isn't so.

LOL!

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. Alas, sludge fires another dud

The whole story was suspect, since that brigade was just invasion fodder grunts, no weapons experts who would have known what they were looking at anyway.

[BUSHOUT]

6. This is another worm turned. Now, will CNN explain itself???

They've been whoring the *conclusion* that there were no explosives there when the invasion happened ALL DAY.

Time to set the record straight...

[wtmusic]

7. Of course not

the story's already buried.

Ashley Simpson has acid reflux...*haven't you heard*?

[Bluebear]

8. And Scott Peterson's defense rested!!

[Oilwellian]

10. Delete

[pa28]

9. Why did NBC say there was no evidence of explosives?

Is it possible they chucked out the spin and told a flat-out lie to protect Bush? Based on their track record I'd say it's possible.

[Supersedeas]

11. No Explosives Title is misleading: Vast Amount, No Move to Secure