REUTERS has picked up the ABC HMX video story--this is going to spread

[jezebel]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6651363
- ABC News on Thursday showed video that appeared to confirm that explosives that went missing in Iraq did not disappear until after the United States had taken control of the facility where they were stored.
The disappearance of the hundreds of tons of explosives from the Al Qaqaa storage facility has become a hotly contested issue in the U.S. presidential campaign.

Democrat John Kerry said it was an example of President Bush bungling the Iraq war. Bush countered that Kerry was making wild accusations without knowing the facts.
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ABC said the video was shot by an affiliate TV station embedded with the 101st Airborne Division when members of the division passed through the facility on April 18, nine days after the fall of Baghdad.

ABC said experts who have studied the images say the barrels seen in the video contain the high explosive HMX, and U.N. markings on the sealed containers were clear.

The barrels were found inside locked bunkers that had been sealed by inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency just before the war began, ABC reported

[jezebel]

1. kick

[DaveinMD]

2. this cycle

is going to continue thru the election. It can only be good for us.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. the righties are going bat shit over this

[Steelangel]

5. They already are ;)

[Steelangel]

4. Excellent!

You can see many freepers are getting mad and ranting about that at yahoo board (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041028/ts_nm/iraq_explosives_abc_dc_1) Boy, that is fuckin hilarious.

[Ducks In A Row]

6. finally

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. And the lame bush denial of this about how it could have happened

earlier demonstrates how uninformed and what a shitbird he is.

[shelley806]

8. Hot Damn!!!!

I think that's about the second time in my life I've used that phrase!

[proud patriot]

9. Good I sent it to every news agency I could today

:D

[Sara Beverley]

10. Now to run this right before the splice of the troops in Bush ad.

How can anyone trust this administration?

[wurzel]

11. Guiliani: Did the troops search carefully enough?

These Repukes who have the nerve to say Kerry blames troops. Not that they can quote a single instance of it. Are now blaming the troops for missing explosives!

[Mountainman]

12. OK it wasn't the Russians, It wasn't that they were gone before the attack

Hey Karl what's the spin today about those damned missing munitions?

[Hans Delbrook]

13. Gotta' be

Barney ate them :D

[Skinner]

14. Way to go, Reuters!

You published the story only ten hours after it was first posted on DU. :eyes: