missing-explosives article...Based on that NBC report, Hannity and Blitzer incorrectly suggested and The Note simply -- and falsely -- asserted that NBC reported that the weapons were gone by the time the troops first arrived at the Al Qa Qaa site. But at no point did the NBC report claim that the arrival of its embedded crew at Al Qa Qaa on April 10 was the first time U.S. troops visited the site. In fact, as the Associated Press reported (on April 5, 2003), the U.S. military arrived at the site six days earlier, on April 4, when the 3rd Infantry Division found, among other things, "white powder that appeared to be used for explosives."
...NBC's Miklaszewski clarified on October 26 that there was another reason why the troops arriving April 10 didn't find explosives -- they weren't looking for them. Following up on his report on NBC's Nightly News, Miklaszewski offered this additional clarification on MSNBC on October 26:
Following up on that story from last night, military officials tell NBC News that on April 10, 2003, when the Second Brigade of the 101st Airborne entered the Al Qa Qaa weapons facility south of Baghdad, that those troops were actually on their way to Baghdad, that they were not actively involved in the search for any weapons, including the high explosives HMX and RDX. The troops did observe stockpiles of conventional weapons but no HMX or RDX, and because the Al Qa Qaa facility is so huge, it's not clear that those troops from the 101st were actually anywhere near the bunkers that reportedly contained the HMX and RDX.
— D.B.B.
Posted to the web on Tuesday October 26, 2004 at 6:24 PM EST
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