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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Oddly enough, and as I said earlier, contrary to the bogus NYT claims, this material was already "missing" when the boots arrived on the ground:
Jim Miklaszewski of NBC News pretty much dismantled the New York Times attack on behalf of Kerry today.
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April 10, 2003, only three weeks into the war, NBC News was embedded with troops from the Army's 101st Airborne as they temporarily take over the Al Qakaa weapons installation south of Baghdad. But these troops never found the nearly 380 tons of some of the most powerful conventional explosives, called HMX and RDX, which is now missing. The U.S. troops did find large stockpiles of more conventional weapons, but no HMX or RDX, so powerful less than a pound brought down Pan Am 103 in 1988, and can be used to trigger a nuclear weapon. In a letter this month, the Iraqi interim government told the International Atomic Energy Agency the high explosives were lost to theft and looting due to lack of security. Critics claim there were simply not enough U.S. troops to guard hundreds of weapons stockpiles, weapons now being used by insurgents and terrorists to wage a guerrilla war in Iraq.
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(NBC’s “Nightly News,” 10/25/04)
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Damn that drudge. He's always so quick to pull the trigger instead of waiting for the story to develop. From
Josh:
Now, NBC's Jim Miklaszewski just went on MSNBC with this follow-up (emphasis added) ...
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 QaQaa 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 stock piles of conventional weapons but no HMX or RDX. And because the Al Qaqaa 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.
So I guess the NYT's story is now remantled?
