wow. 38 minutes ago the AP story about the explosives hit a ton of papers

[truthisfreedom]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/2004/oct/25/102504973.html

the article that contains this damning quote:

"The presence of these amounts was verified by the IAEA in January 2003," he said.

At the Pentagon, an official who monitors developments in Iraq said U.S.-led coalition troops had searched Al-Qaqaa in the immediate aftermath of the March 2003 invasion and confirmed that the explosives, under IAEA seal since 1991, were intact. Thereafter, the site was not secured by U.S. forces, the official said, also speaking on condition of anonymity.

The Iraqis told the nuclear agency the materials were stolen and looted because of a lack of security at governmental installations, Fleming said.




UN: 400 tons of Iraq explosives missing
Times Picayune, LA - 15 minutes ago
By WILLIAM J. KOLE. VIENNA ... unsuccessfully. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said US-led forces searched the Al-Qaqaa facility after the invasion. ...

UN: 400 Tons of Iraq Explosives Missing
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, IA - 27 minutes ago
By WILLIAM J. KOLE. VIENNA ... unsuccessfully. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said US-led forces searched the Al-Qaqaa facility after the invasion. ...

UN: 400 Tons of Iraq Explosives Missing
The Missoulian, MT - 33 minutes ago
By WILLIAM J. KOLE. VIENNA ... unsuccessfully. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said US-led forces searched the Al-Qaqaa facility after the invasion. ...

UN: 400 Tons of Iraq Explosives Missing
Albany Democrat Herald, OR - 37 minutes ago
By WILLIAM J. KOLE. VIENNA ... unsuccessfully. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said US-led forces searched the Al-Qaqaa facility after the invasion. ...

UN: 400 Tons of Iraq Explosives Missing
Carlisle Sentinel, United States - 37 minutes ago
By WILLIAM J. KOLE. VIENNA ... unsuccessfully. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said US-led forces searched the Al-Qaqaa facility after the invasion. ...

UN: 400 Tons of Iraq Explosives Missing
Leavenworth Times, KS - 38 minutes ago
By WILLIAM J. KOLE. VIENNA ... unsuccessfully. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said US-led forces searched the Al-Qaqaa facility after the invasion. ...

UN: 400 Tons of Iraq Explosives Missing
Rapid City Journal, SD - 38 minutes ago
By WILLIAM J. KOLE. VIENNA ... unsuccessfully. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said US-led forces searched the Al-Qaqaa facility after the invasion. ...

UN: 400 Tons of Iraq Explosives Missing
Lodi News-Sentinel, CA - 38 minutes ago
By WILLIAM J. KOLE. VIENNA ... unsuccessfully. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said US-led forces searched the Al-Qaqaa facility after the invasion. ...

UN: 400 Tons of Iraq Explosives Missing
Orangeburg Times Democrat, SC - 38 minutes ago
By WILLIAM J. KOLE. VIENNA ... unsuccessfully. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said US-led forces searched the Al-Qaqaa facility after the invasion. ...

[grace0418]

1. Run with it!

RUN WITH IT! I'm so sick of hearing about stupid things like Mary Cheney being gay over and over while important stories get ignored.

[joeybee12]

2. What??? Mary Cheney is GAY??? How come I didn't know that!!!!!

[RoyGBiv]

6. DAMNIT!!!!

Why does no one TELL ME THESE THINGS!

;-)

[ClassWarrior]

8. She's not gay. She's LEBANESE.

24.

[Cats Against Frist]

12. LOL!

[Bongo Prophet]

23. I heard she was an actress or something. Lebanese too?

Like Marlo Thomas?

[rsmith6621]

4. Is This The October Suprise That Us Kerry Suptrs Wanted

God........I hope that some Repugs can read and comprehend....


This story is far better than a verifiable source that Shrub was truly booted out of the TANG for failing a drug test....

Run...........Run....Run with it..........

8 days till it Pres Kerry.

[JusticeForAll]

3. I must be getting sleepy...what is the detail of significance here.. n/t

(on edit!!) Whoa before I get flamed...I know this was SUPPOSED to be the big news of the day and SHOULD have been...but how is this latest report different...

[Maple]

5. NBC Drudge very inaccurate spin

so this counteracts it

[ClassWarrior]

9. The explosives were there and accounted-for just after we invaded.

Therefore Bush*, Cheney*, Rummy, and company ALLOWED THE SHIT TO BE LOOTED.

AND THEN COVERED IT UP!!! The ghost of Dick Nixon is smiling...

24.

[Elidor]

7. Someone in the Pentagon is outside the tent pissing in

I wonder who this person is?

...The site was not secured by U.S. forces, the official said, also speaking on condition of anonymity.

The Iraqis told the nuclear agency the materials were stolen and looted because of a lack of security at governmental installations.

Miserable Failure.

[Rjnerd]

17. They teach you in Basic

If you can't secure a weapon, you destroy it (if if it was one of yours). You never just leave it alone.


Hell, they could have great "our high tech weapons at work" footage of destroying the stuff.

[MADem]

21. He ain't outside the tent

He is in the tent. He is walking around to all the offices, farting silently in the corner, and leaving, wandering the halls until he gets to Rummy's sanctum, slipping in and taking a very LARGE dump on his little architect's table.

He's pissing in every corner but his own, but he is in the tent, bet on it.

Hear, hear!

[MidwestTransplant]

10. Drudge is in panic mode

Olberman just reported what NBC News said and it's totally opposite of what Drudge is saying. They are FLIPPING out. They know this story could be the end of the road.

[autorank]

11. Great post! Great news! Thanks.

[jezebel]

13. How do you link to those articles. Freepers posted the newest AP article

with the Bryan Whitman quote and the anonymous quote is gone.

[jezebel]

14. SHIT!!! AP has taken out that quote. heres a link.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=2&u=/ap/20041026/ap_on_re_mi_ea/nuclear_agency_iraq

[private_ryan]

15. over 800 news sites

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&tab=nn&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/102604dnintiraqexplosives.f1d4.html

[meow mix]

16. gee i thought it "had no legs" as many freakers promised.

bwhahaha

[snowbear]

18. CNN Headline News:

CNN Headline News just had a guy named Dr. Jim Walsh from the Harvard Institute (Foreign Affairs Expert) saying how deplorable this incident is.

He added that he thinks after today,that the importance of the story, the ramifications of what has occurred, the shear magnitude of it, and most of all-- the reasons that it happened..

...will likely FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS.

In other words.. he thinks the media will dump the story quickly. :mad:

[shivaji]

19. Oklahoma Govt Bldg was blown up using common fertilizer

so what was unusual about this explosive cache in Iraq?

[Nordic]

20. God I hate CNN

Fuck CNN. I fucking hate those motherfucking cocksuckers.

Write to this guy, their news chief, and tell him what you think.

[e-mail]

He reads them, because he's written me back a few times.

I want this guy's head on a platter. I want the whole corporation to go down like Enron.

These people need to be sued, class-action, billions of dollars, worse than the cigarette companies.

They are, quite simply, the enemy of this democracy.

[SoCalDemocrat]

22. Someone posted a memo on Hannity's site

Someone posted a memo on Hannity's site that came from the International Atomic Regulator Committee blasting Bush for losing the cache.


http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-10-25-missing-explosives_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA

Mohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, notified the Security Council on Monday, two weeks after informing U.S. officials that the materials were missing. Before the war, the explosives were being monitored by the IAEA because they can be used in nuclear bombs to trigger a nuclear explosion.

The disappearance of the high explosives is the latest and perhaps most striking evidence of Saddam Hussein's immense prewar stockpile of conventional weapons and the failure by the U.S. military and its allies to secure those weapons during the rush to topple Saddam's regime and in the chaotic aftermath of that initial campaign.

The explosives constitute a fraction of the conventional weapons that were scattered across Iraq at storage sites, at ammo dumps and in non-military stashes.

Since the end of the major combat phase of the Iraq war on May 1, 2003, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has destroyed 178,000 tons of munitions and secured an additional 150,000 tons.

But weapons experts say that if insurgents or terrorists obtain some or all of the missing materials, they could use the explosives against targets in Iraq and the United States or sell them to groups or countries trying to build nuclear weapons.

Paul Leventhal, founding president of the Nuclear Control Institute in Washington, D.C., said he fears the explosives were taken by Baath Party insurgents and are already being used against U.S. troops or kept in reserve in the event of civil war in Iraq.

Another, darker possibility, Leventhal said, is that the explosives were removed by those "who might retain the capacity to assemble a nuclear weapon."

Dan Goure, a military analyst at the Lexington Institute in Arlington, Va., said the disappearance of the explosives was another sign of how overwhelmed the U.S. military was after the fall of Saddam's regime.

"It was in keeping with what we saw in Iraq almost from day one," Goure said, noting the large amounts of weapons that U.S. and allied troops were unable to secure from looters.