NYTIMES: Video Shows G.I.'s at Weapon Cache

[jezebel]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/29/politics/29bomb.html?ex=1256788800&en=547ebf5b1e8f573d&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland

A videotape made by a television crew with American troops when they opened bunkers at a sprawling Iraqi munitions complex south of Baghdad shows a huge supply of explosives still there nine days after the fall of Saddam Hussein, apparently including some sealed earlier by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The tape, broadcast on Wednesday night by the ABC affiliate in Minneapolis, appeared to confirm a warning given earlier this month to the agency by Iraqi officials, who said that hundreds of tons of high-grade explosives, powerful enough to bring down buildings or detonate nuclear weapons, had vanished from the site after the invasion of Iraq.

The question of whether the material was removed by Mr. Hussein's forces in the days before the invasion, or looted later because it was unguarded, has become a heated dispute on the campaign trail, with Senator John Kerry accusing President Bush of incompetence, and Mr. Bush saying it is unclear when the material disappeared and rejecting what he calls Mr. Kerry's "wild charges."

Weapons experts familiar with the work of the international inspectors in Iraq say the videotape appears identical to photographs that the inspectors took of the explosives, which were put under seal before the war. One frame shows what the experts say is a seal, with narrow wires that would have to be broken if anyone entered through the main door of the bunker.

[Bozita]

1. and Bushco is playing defense for the final minutes of the election game

Can't play offense without the ball.

[alittlelark]

3. They don't have any balls

so I guess they can't play?

[alittlelark]

2. 'Main door of the bunker' seal must be broken???

IT WAS such a SNAFU that no one gave a shit - why should they- they have to follow commands and DO AS THEY WERE TOLD.

I hate these people.

[neomonkey]

4. Now THAT is professional journalism (babble alert)

unlike some of the other rag-pieces I've seen lately, ie, AP the other day which seemed to be nothing but a recitation of George W. Bush's wet dreams.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. They will try and ignore this story again like they did until yesterday

when they got the brilliant idea they would apply good old boy logic and say that the shit was already gone. The chimp is a fucking insane monster.

[keopeli]

6. David Kay confirms ABC video contents, definitely US responsibility

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1206317

David Kay confirmed this earlier tonight on CNN.

[leftchick]

7. ooooo they're a spinning like Mad now! Pictures don't lie.....

~snip~
In disputing claims by Mr. Kerry that the Americans had lost the explosives, a senior administration official said Thursday, "We don't know all the facts and no one should be jumping to conclusions." Al Qaqaa, the official said, "was not controlled for three weeks after the I.A.E.A. left," and added "there are a lot of dots we have to connect."

The Pentagon also notes that it has destroyed 400,000 tons of munitions from thousands of sites across Iraq, and that the explosives at Al Qaqaa account for "one-tenth of 1 percent" of that amount.

The Minneapolis television crew was with an Army unit that was camped near Al Qaqaa, members of the crew said. The reporter and cameraman said that although they were not told specifically that they were being taken to Al Qaqaa by the military, their videotape matches pictures of the site taken by United Nations weapons inspectors, according to weapons experts.




LOL... Here's a big dot!

[Moderator]

8. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=941217