WHAT?? CNN still reporting Russians took Explosives???

[YEM]

WTF?? This is fucking IGNORANT journalism!!

[madmax]

1. Yes, they are let's email them the article

with pics. :mad:

[miamimama]

2. Not so fast ---

"no intelligence to support the conclusion"

[txindy]

3. Then they shouldn't keep bringing it up.

Are they there to report anything people say just to finish the long story with "no intelligence to support the conclusion?" Oh.... wait.... That's what CNN does these days, isn't it? Never mind. ;)

Seriously, though, they need to not report the unsupported conclusion they read about in Moonie's paper. It's lazy and can't even be called reporting.

[da_chimperor]

4. I think that's a really lame excuse for them to spread speculation

If there's nothing to support the conclusion, then why report it? There's no evidence to support the conclusion that I went over to Iraq and took all the exlosives to hide them in my basement. Why doesn't CNN report that? It sounds just as credible as the Russia story to me. :shrug:

[Ducks In A Row]

6. they do this to avoid the real story about the video

[da_chimperor]

10. It's disgusting that they get away with this

I know it's nothing new, but each time someone highlights something like this is really pisses me off! Salon is already reporting on the video, so with any luck this story should get at least SOME news coverage in the next day or two. I think this is too big for them to completely ignore.

[papau]

8. photos of SEAL - no looting when we took control - from KSTP TV

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."

[vinnievin777]

5. CNN,Fox,CNBC

All have to defend their interests and support bush.
Bad for Democracy good for big business.

Vinnie Vin
http://www.vinnievin.com

[Cleita]

7. If they say so, it must be true.

I noticed, no sources, no pictures, just the statement that the Russians did it and moved the explosives to Syria. (Uh aren't we supposed to invade Syria sometime after Iran according to the PNAC master plan?) Wonder what the Russians have to say about it? When in the decade leading up to the invasion was there a significant Russian presence there that could do this without being detected, especially a convoy big enough to remove all those explosives to Syria?

[Cleita]

9. Here's something. I don't know how reliable it is because

the source is Washington D. C.,

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,11214459%255E1702,00.html

<snip>
Russians 'took Iraqi explosives'
From correspondents in Washington
28oct04

RUSSIAN special forces "almost certainly" removed the explosives missing from a military base south of Baghdad before the March 2003 US invasion and sent them to Syria, Lebanon and possibly Iran, The Washington Times daily said, quoting a US official.

"The Russians brought in, just before the war got started, a whole series of military units ... Their main job was to shred all evidence of any of the contractual arrangements they had with the Iraqis," deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security John Shaw told the daily in an interview.
The official said he believes the Russian troops, working with Iraqi intelligence, "almost certainly" removed the high explosive material that went missing from the Al-Qaqaa military facility south of Baghdad.

The missing 380 tons of explosives over which the International Atomic Energy Agency raised the alert earlier this month have become fodder in the US presidential election campaign, with Democratic challenger John Kerry accusing incumbent Republican President George W. Bush of incompetence in his handling of post-invasion Iraq. more...<snip>

[LibDemAlways]

11. I heard the same crap today on the CBS

radio affiliate in LA. They were also trying to spin the missing explosives as no big deal because they are "only" 350 tons. The reporter even sarcastically questioned how that figure had been arrived at. Whores are spinning overtime to put a good face on this.