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Donny247 Donating Member (184 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 10:34 AM
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Freepers Trying to Spike 60 Minutes!!
We gota hit back hard on this. The Freepers are trying to make CBS blink and not air this upcoming report, and their efforts are often successful. Anyone have links to CBS/60 Minutes e-mail adresses??
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 10:39 AM
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1. They won't suceed this time because it really is NEWS!
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Tamyrlin79 Donating Member (944 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 10:41 AM
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2. What report are they trying to censor THIS time?
There really is so much Freeper Madness that it's tough to keep up with what they are doing NOW. More specifics please?
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 10:42 AM
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6. 380 tons missing report that was in NY Times
:-)
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 11:49 AM
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17. Will US Media dare to report this AP Wire conjecture? Insurgents got 400T!
Will US Media dare to report this AP Wire conjecture? Insurgents got 400T!

Insurgents could possess up to 400 tons of the deadly materials often used in bombs

By William J. Kole, Associated Press

VIENNA, Austria -- The U.N. nuclear agency warned Monday that insurgents in Iraq may have obtained nearly 400 tons of missing explosives that can be used in the kind of car bomb attacks that have targeted U.S.-led coalition forces for months.
<snip>

The disappearance raised questions about why the United States didn't do more to secure the Al-Qaqaa facility 30 miles south of Baghdad and failed to allow full international inspections to resume after the March 2003 invasion.
<snip>

Al-Qaqaa is near Youssifiyah, an area rife with ambush attacks. An Associated Press Television News crew that drove past the compound Monday saw no visible security at the gates of the site, a jumble of low-slung, yellow-colored storage buildings that appeared deserted.
<snip>

Insurgents targeting coalition forces in Iraq have made widespread use of plastic explosives in a bloody spate of car bomb attacks. Officials were unable to link the missing explosives directly to the recent car bombings, but the revelations that they could have fallen into enemy hands caused a stir in the last week of the U.S. presidential campaign.
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http://www.trivalleyherald.com/Stories/0,1413,86~10669~2492592,00.html
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 12:26 PM
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18. Josh Marshall posts interview NBC Producer embed - No Search
Josh Marshall posts interview NBC Producer embed - No Search


http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com /

Lai Ling Jew: When we went into the area, we were actually leaving Karbala and we were initially heading to Baghdad with the 101st Airborne, Second Brigade. The situation in Baghdad, the Third Infantry Division had taken over Baghdad and so they were trying to carve up the area that the 101st Airborne Division would be in charge of. Um, as a result, they had trouble figuring out who was going to take up what piece of Baghdad. They sent us over to this area in Iskanderia. We didn't know it as the Qaqaa facility at that point but when they did bring us over there we stayed there for quite a while. Almost, we stayed overnight, almost 24 hours. And we walked around, we saw the bunkers that had been bombed, and that exposed all of the ordinances that just lied dormant on the desert.

AR: Was there a search at all underway or was, did a search ensue for explosives once you got there during that 24-hour period?

LLJ: No. There wasn't a search. 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. But there was – at that point the roads were shut off. So it would have been very difficult, I believe, for the looters to get there.

AR: And there was no talk of securing the area after you left. There was no discussion of that?

LLJ: Not for the 101st Airborne, Second Brigade. They were -- once they were in Baghdad, it was all about Baghdad, you know, and then they ended up moving north to Mosul. Once we left the area, that was the last that the brigade had anything to do with the area.

AR: Well, Lai Ling Jew, thank you so much for shedding some light into that situation. We appreciate it.




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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 10:41 AM
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3. Duh. What's 60 Minutes got?
Pardon my iggerance. Missed something here.
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LuminousX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 10:41 AM
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4. CBS will go ahead with it
Freepers don't have that much power.
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nickinSTL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 10:41 AM
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5. to contact CBS
there is a contact form to fill out.

www.cbsnews.com - at the bottom of the page there is a Contact Us link
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cubsfan forever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 10:47 AM
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11. Did it! n/t
Professor 2
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 11:02 AM
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14. done n/t
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TexasBushwhacker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 10:42 AM
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7. Which report?
Geez, CBS had already spiked the report on the the obviously fake documents for the yellow cake uranium in Niger:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/29/cbs_wmd/index.html

Are they going to kill another story now? What's it about, the missing 400 tons of explosives?

As for contacting CBS, go to the bottom of this page and click on the "Contact Us":

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/29/cbs_wmd/index.html
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cubsfan forever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 10:43 AM
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8. Will e-mail them once I find the link
but I don't think even the Freepers can do this to 60 Minutes.

Professor 2
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Worst Username Ever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 11:01 AM
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13. cbsnews.com
go to the bottom of the page, hit "contact us." Automated email system.
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cubsfan forever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 11:37 AM
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16. Thanks! n/t
Professor 2
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AmerDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 10:43 AM
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9. geeze man, read Skinners thread about this shit!
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Algorem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 10:44 AM
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10. 60 Minutes tomorrow doing voting machines,
Edited on Tue Oct-26-04 10:51 AM by Algorem
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BUSHOUT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 10:56 AM
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12. Exactly where are freeaks doing this? Gotta link? n/t
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 11:06 AM
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15. CBS is already on record
As saying they don't want to influence the election in the crucial final weeks. It wouldn't surprise me a bit if they decided to spike another story cricital of the corrupt Bush administration. Apparently, the truth is to be avoided at all costs to maintain the "too close to call" horse race that the networks thirst for.

Whores. All of them.
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