KSTP: XCLUSIVE: MORE BREAKING NEWS ABOUT EXPLOSIVES FOUND IN IRAQ (SEALS)

[geek tragedy]

http://kstp.com/article/stories/S3741.html?cat=1

A 5 Eyewitness News crew in Iraq may have been just a door away from materials that could be used to detonate nuclear weapons. The evidence is in videotape shot by Reporter Dean Staley and Photographer Joe Caffrey at or near the Al Qaqaa munitions facility.

The video shows a cable locking a door shut. That cable is connected by a copper colored seal.

A spokesperson for the International Atomic Energy Agency told 5 Eyewitness News that seal appears to be one used by their inspectors. "In Iraq they were used when there was a concern that this could have a, what we call, dual use purpose, that there could be a nuclear weapons application."

[MidwestTransplant]

1. Doh, I posted late. I'll delete mine since your has pretty pictures!

[papau]

23. I do like the photos!

Seals used by the IAEA (top). A seal on an Iraqi bunker door videotaped by a 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS crew on April 18, 2003 (bottom).

OK but which they had said more about this "seal" image that they posted to their web site.



BREAKING from KSTP (photos of IAEA seals)

http://kstp.com/article/stories/S3741.html?cat=1

A 5 Eyewitness News crew in Iraq may have been just a door away from materials that could be used to detonate nuclear weapons. The evidence is in videotape shot by Reporter Dean Staley and Photographer Joe Caffrey at or near the Al Qaqaa munitions facility.

The video shows a cable locking a door shut. That cable is connected by a copper colored seal.

A spokesperson for the International Atomic Energy Agency told 5 Eyewitness News that seal appears to be one used by their inspectors. "In Iraq they were used when there was a concern that this could have a, what we call, dual use purpose, that there could be a nuclear weapons application."

[maddezmom]

2. buy-bye * and cheney

Looks to have been there, what do you got to say for yourselfs now??

[gavodotcom]

3. WAY TO GO KSTP, we love you, whomever you are!

[Carolab]

6. OUR LOCAL STATION HERE IN ST. PAUL, MN

YAY!!!! GO KSTP!!!!

[Dickie Flatt]

8. And, amazingly enough, owned by a Republican

[MrMonk]

10. Maybe he cares about honest reporting

[truthisfreedom]

46. i'm sure he was blindsided by his own reporting team. but think about it.

now his little station, which has had bad ratings for a while now, is suddenly in the national limelight.

very comprehensive reporting! they actually have closeups of the seals... unbelieveable.

my own little local station. unbelieveable. i wonder if they'll be credited with turning the election. 8^)

[Career Prole]

11. Buy that camera operator a drink on me! n/t

[keithjx]

4. Hoo Hoo!

This just keeps getting better. Nice that it takes hometown journalism to get this done!

[FUCK_BUSH]

5. Bush's Debate Notes

http://www.thatsuncalledfor.com/debate_notes/


REMEMBER: FUCK BUSH B/C HE IS A NAZI !!!!!!!

[knowbody0]

15. fuckin's just too good for the likes of blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

[damntexdem]

32. Al Qaa Qa is, hopefully, putting Dubya's election hopes into ...

la caca.

[MrMonk]

7. It should be easy to determine whether the pictures were taken at al QaQaa

A spokesperson for the International Atomic Energy Agency told 5 Eyewitness News that seal appears to be one used by their inspectors.

The IEAE should have a chain of custody for that numbered seal, showing where the seal was used, as well as when it was used and what was sealed.

[truthisfreedom]

47. the news team also has their GPS coordinates, which i bet are still stored

in the gps machine the reporter carried! would you ever erase GPS notes like that from your locator? not on your life. most exciting story that reporter was ever on...

[UL_Approved]

9. This had better be true

If this story is not substantiated and proven, we have just given the right-wing pundits more fodder in 24 hours than they've had in 4 years. I hope to hell that this is not taken down like the Dan Rather story this year. We could win or LOSE our support base on the validity of this investigation.

[The_Casual_Observer]

12. This story looks to be as good as gold.

[sonicx]

13. stop glooming

wanna jinx it or something?

[chuckhoward]

14. No rewards...

...unless you take some risks. I think it's worth running with it.

[chuckhoward]

16. I think the worst case scenario...

...is that the Pentagon tells us that all the stuff in the kstp videos has been destroyed...but I don't think they can prove that...

[mzmolly]

18. .

[displacedtexan]

19. This story didn't just miraculously appear yesterday.

There are no deus ex machinas 5 days before the election...

except maybe the Arafat gall stones.

[Carolab]

17. I am IN St. Paul and I JUST watched the local report

They verified their location via GPS and said they were in the right location for al Qaqaa and Bob Baer (from the CIA, appeared in Hijacking Catastrophy) said that this facility was A PRIMARY CONCERN. The report is available at kstp.com.

They said the website is getting 10 times the normal amount of traffic--like 200,000 hits in one hour!

[mzmolly]

20. Watched too, I think it will hit major media/world news tomorrow.

:shrug:

[juliagoolia]

21. Good story.. honest reporters finally

wonderful.. now when will the networks run with it?????

[Javaman]

22. I recall, early in the war, that the military was using GPS to mark

any weapons cashes they found. They know. That's why the penagon has said the russian story is bullshit, before the airing of this news report. They all know. Bastards.

[Critical Thinker]

24. HUGE story

look for it to break bigtime tomorrow.

[MattP]

25. MSM reaction

Why did the msm take like 5 minutes to run with the russia crap and yet it's taken like all day and yet nobody has yet to say shit about this yet!! wtf.

[Tansy_Gold]

27. Maybe, just maybe, the Russia story was played up as

speculation, subject to verification, but was never presented as having any real hard evidence. Easy to throw out there, no hard claims made, easily discounted.

Now, this KSTP report contains hard evidence that has to be analyzed -- is there an IAEA record of this particular seal and what it was assigned to, etc. That's a little less easy to toss around as "speculative." And I think maybe there are people who realize just how explosive (pun intended) this evidence could be and they want to make sure it doesn't prove to be a dud (again, pun intended) the way the Rather/Killian papers were.




Tansy Gold

[Daisey Mae]

26. This should do it. How can anyone think that .....

these guys should be incharge of anything ......LET ALONE THE WHOLE WORLD.....Kerry by a Landslide....

[Cooley Hurd]

28. ABC World News covered it just now!!!

Truth... BE TOLD!:thumbsup:

[UpInArms]

29. on ABC Evening News tonight

they admitted that the military cut the cable and opened the silo and left it unguarded.

[hdaddy]

31. Here it is finally on web

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=206847

[jfern]

45. HMX

They say it's HMX explosives.

[Schup]

30. Finally...

ABC picks it up.

Let's see if it rates a Nightline episode tonight.

[SaintLouisBlues]

33. kick

[thecrow]

34. I sent the video to lots of news people, then found this:

Administration Misleads on Missing Explosives


The Bush administration is pushing the theory that the 380 tons of explosives were missing from the Al Qaqaa storage facility before the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. Administration spokesman Dan Senor said on CNN that "there's a very high probability that those weapons weren't even there before the war."1

For days, this theory has been in direct conflict with a Pentagon official, who told the Associate Press on Monday, "US-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."2

Now, video shot in Iraq by a Minneapolis news team provides further proof that the administration's theory is bogus. After the invasion - on April 18, 2003 - the Minneapolis ABC news crew was stationed just south of the Al Qaqaa facility.3 That day, they drove 2 to 3 miles north with the 101st Airborne Division. There, "members of the 101st Airborne Division showed the 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS news crew bunker after bunker of material labeled 'explosives.'"4 Some of the boxes were marked "Al Qaqaa."5 One soldier told the crew: "we can stick in those and make some good bombs."6 Watch the video.

Sources:
"Paula Zahn Now," CNN, 10/26/04.
"380 tons of explosives missing in Iraq," Associated Press, 10/25/04.
"5 EYEWITNESS NEWS video may be linked to missing explosives in Iraq," KSTP.com, 10/28/04.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
http://www.moveon.org

[neohippie]

35. MSNBC Countdown leads with weapons story

Yes, it is finally getting on the cable stations. I hope that this is enough to wake up the sheeple to the web of lies that they are being fed daily

[Eloriel]

36. It was pretty good too -- featured the local station's tape

I was impressed.

[Bread and Circus]

37. What about the roadside bombs? I bet ya a million dollars....

that some of these roadside bombs are made with that very
same explosive that was looted. They can do chemical testing
on the bomb aftermath to see what kind of explosive it was.
If they were to release that info (I'm sure it's out there),
we'd almost surely find that some of it is the same kind of
material that was in that compound.

If the troops, equipment, and priorities were there, that material
wouldn't have been looted and the post war effort would have been
a lot better.

Heads in this administration should have rolled a long time ago,
but all we heard was how Rumsfeld was doing such a "superb" job.

[ozymandius]

40. NOT just "superb"

Rumsfeld is the BEST Sec of Defense in the history of this nation - per Prick Cheney.

[misterphelps]

38. This time there are pictures...

... so they're f_cked.

Think about every other time when they just deny, deny, deny. Never having to admit anything - even when there are witnesses.

It's time to pay.

[AIJ Alom]

39. Reporter Dean Staley said on Paula Zahn that his group removed seals to

get into the building ! Originally they thought the seals, strips of wire (attached to a copper metal head) were booby traps ! Imagine that, the troops had no idea that these were the seals in question. When they cut the bolts, they also cut the wire and got in to a warehouse full of barrels labeled Explosive 1.1 D. (Hmmmm, wonder what that could be?)

[geek tragedy]

43. Gee, I wonder.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1198046

Sorry, but too many people gave me crap for that thread.

[funnymanpants]

50. Yes, you are right

There was some freeper on there (pagan preacher) trying to obfuscate the issue with technicalities.

What a jerk he was!

[AIJ Alom]

41. Pentagon's satellite imagery is of the wrong part of the Al Qaa Qa site

see this post !

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1204947

[lovuian]

42. WMD and he doesn't give a damn !!!

The IAe must be shaking their heads right now!!!

:nuke:

[goforit]

44. Hmmmm........They wanted chaos , they just may get it!!!!

This is blowing up in Rove's face!!!!

[goodhue]

48. latest version of KSTP story - quotes from Dean Staley & Joe Caffrey

EXCLUSIVE: 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS RAISES NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT UNGUARDED EXPLOSIVES

Updated: 10/28/2004 07:50:58 PM

http://kstp.com/article/stories/S3740.html?cat=64

Photojournalist Joe Caffrey recalls seeing Iraqis watching them as they went through the bunkers. As his crew and the troops from the 101st departed each bunker, they left them open.

"We weren't quite sure what we were looking at, but we saw so much of it and it didn't appear that this was being secured in any way," said photojournalist Joe Caffrey. "It was several miles away from where military people were staying in their tents."

Caffrey also recalls overhearing a military briefing after curious soliders had encountered another bunker.

"Apparently two soldiers had gone in to these bunkers, lit a match for light and the fumes or powder... whatever it was, exploded and burned their clothes off," he said. "Shortly thereafter, everyone was told to stay away from these bunkers"

Another bunker encountered by the 101st Airborne and the 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS crew was locked with chains and a seal left by inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency. According to the IAEA, the seal marked a facility suspected of holding "dual-purpose" materials that could be used to produce nuclear weapons.

[Cooley Hurd]

49. Lit a MATCH? LIT A FUCKING MATCH?!?!?!?

Didn't they see the same Bugs Bunny cartoons I saw??? :wow:

[rentogen]

51. too sweet...

October surprise? Yes indeed, and they all seem to be breaking for the reality based community. Fan the flames, keep the stories burning. Schadenfreude, schadenfreude.

[cubsfan forever]

52. Yes, Rove and his fascists wanted

an October Surprise, just not one that blew up in THEIR faces.
Hey all of you little men in the administration: Careful what you wish for...

Professor 2

[Chicago Democrat]

53. I think ABC Punk'd Bush and Cheney.... BWA HAHAHAHAH (nt)

[maddezmom]

54. David Kay on CNN now....listen

He said US knew and failed to secure

[carolinalady]

55. I think Mr. kay did a very good job.

He seemed to give the clearest explanation of the situation I have seen all day.

[skordane]

56. This Will Run for a Few More Days

The major news outlets will be running with the news footage story tomorrow and keep this horse running another day. It is on the NY Times web site.

[Chicago Democrat]

61. Write CNN and make them get the story correct!

My Letter to CNN:

Regarding your article at....
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/28/iraq.explosiv...

Why is the TITLE of the Article

"Photo, video show Iraqi complex before, after invasion"

The 'prior' is irrelevent to the main story which is that David Kay verifies that those seals are the ones so the material MUST BE the high explosives..

Furthermore... AMPLE eye witness testimony proves all the bunkers were SIMILARLY intact! I'm talking about the soldiers that were there!!

Quit playing A LIE equals THE TRUTH!!!

The truth is PLAIN!!

[Chicago Democrat]

62. Hurrah CNN removes stupid article!! The keyboard is mightier than ...

the Missles I guess!

[twenty2strings]

57. following story all day...made me join in.

the looks on the faces of the local abc affiliate team were revealing to me. i saw a thrill of discovery and pride in their faces. kind of a bernstein woodward moment. i am a new duer but i worked the debate polls with satisfaction. i`m with you.

[goodhue]

59. Welcome to DU!

Dean Staley should get some sort of commendation or something.

[Richard1]

58. Help

NPR's Morning Edition repeated this morning the assertion made in its Wednesday story that the 380 tons of explosives missing in Iraq was just a fraction of the explosives seized and or destroyed during the occupation. I do not believe this to be true. I think I saw a story that stated the tons destroyed to be between 300 and 400 hundred tons and the amount seized but not yet destroyed to be between 100 and 200 tons. I do not remember where I saw this. I believe it was from a reputable news source within the last week. I could not find the story with a quick google search. If anyone has this story please send it to Morning Edition and NPR.

[Chicago Democrat]

60. CNN Continues TO RUN stupid CONFUSING ARTICLES!!!

TO Cnn:
You wrote......
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/28/iraq.explosives/index.html

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two more bits of possible evidence have surfaced in the mystery of the missing Iraqi explosives.

The Pentagon released a photo Thursday showing activity before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003 outside a bunker at the weapons dump where 360 tons of explosives reportedly disappeared.

The photo might lend support to but doesn't prove the Pentagon's theory the explosives were moved before the war, and a videotape surfaced offering another scenario.
(snip)

Why is this INCONCLUSIVE AND USELESS "evidence" the lead in on a story that is mainly about the videotape that PROVES PER DAVID KAY the presence of HMX on April 13!

STOP WRITING CONFUSING ARTICLES ABOUT WHAT WE KNOW TO BE TRUE>>>

APRIL 13!! Videotape of one bunker and conclusive proof...Also TESTIMONY THAT PROVES THE LIKELY TIMELINE OF EVENTS>>>>

LAY IT OUT PLAINLY! STOP RUNNING BALONEY!

[Chicago Democrat]

63. Hurrah for small victories ... CNN pulls bullshit story 5 minutes after

Josh Marshall trashed it!....

I love you Josh Micah Marshalll...



Is he gay???

[Chicago Democrat]

64. Damn... Lying CNN story with misleading headline is back :(

:(

[Chicago Democrat]

65. More CNN lying stories....

More complaints of mine to CNN....

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/28/iraq.explosives/index.html

There is no "MYSTERY" about the missing WEAPONS!!!!!

STOP EQUATING PENTAGON/BUSH SPIN WITH ACTUAL FACTS PER PHOTOS, INTERVIEWS AND EYEWITNESSESS!!!

These munitions were looting after April 13 per the the video. Interview with David Kay, THE BUSH APPOINTED GUY!, proves what Kerry has been saying is true. It proves that BUSH IS LYING!! PLEASE CORRECT!!

[goodhue]

66. video date is April 18th

April 13th is date pentagon says somebody removed something