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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-27-04 01:22 PM
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TX truck/Fallujah bomb factory/WTF???
Edited on Sat Nov-27-04 01:24 PM by rainbow4321
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/

For instance, just look at yesterday's headline from The Dallas Morning News:

SUV with Texas registration found at Fallujah bomb workshop

An "embedded" CNN crew allegedly found Zarqawi's HQ. They can assume as much, because "al Qaeda organization" was written on the wall. Seriously. We're awaiting confirmation of "Bad Guy Hideout - No Gurls Allowed!" And there was this SUV, surrounded by bags of sodium nitrate, with 15 Iraqi plates inside and a "Texas registration sticker...on the truck's window."

The most incredible aspect of this is not the truck, but that the report of its provenance could be delivered without so much as a raised eyebrow. What will it take for CNN's incurious Paula Zahn to say "Wait a minute - what the fuck?"


http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/111804dninttruck.6d557d8d.html


BAGHDAD, Iraq – U.S. troops in Fallujah today believe they found the command center for an insurgent group led by Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

The raid also uncovered a bomb-making workshop where a SUV registered in Texas looked like it was being converted into a car bomb.

Details come from a CNN crew that was embedded with the Army.
The Texas registration sticker was on the truck's window.
The vehicle had no license plate, but some 15 Iraqi license plates were inside the SUV


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Newsjock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-27-04 01:25 PM
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1. Reporting 101
After all this time, why hasn't anyone run a check on the registration sticker to find out the registered owner?

Seems like one of the most fundamental, basic questions to ask.

And nobody at CNN is apparently asking it.

Draw your own conclusion.
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drdtroit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-27-04 01:28 PM
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3. There are no journalists or reporters left at major cable news
Only talking heads reading their scripts.
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mhr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-27-04 01:32 PM
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4. I'm Convinced That They Are Actually Robots, Just Ones And Zeros!
eom
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-27-04 01:25 PM
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2. and I bet
the al Qadea Organization sign was in English!
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DELUSIONAL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-27-04 01:41 PM
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5. This message wasn't for us who haven't had the Kool-aid
This is a direct message to the bushie cult members -- it is reinforcing the meme that WMD are in Iraq and that's why bushie sent in the troops.

We've known that something would be planted -- and this one is so darned obvious.

The freepers and other followers of jesus-bushie will be shortly saying "I told you so -- there were WMD in Iraq."

It doesn't take much to convince the logically impaired neocon/freeper/bushie butt kisser.
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Spoon Donating Member (401 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-27-04 02:28 PM
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6. Contractor SUV
Many of the pseudo-forces we have over there to help "rebuild the country" are independent contractors, many from the oil companies in Texas. Considering how many convoys have been attacked, I'm not surprised that Zarqawi had one of their vehicles.

Also, what a perfect delivery vehicle for a major car bomb. It has size and disguise.
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bvar22 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-27-04 02:35 PM
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7. That's what I would do...
..if WE were occupied by a foreign invader. Use one of their vehicles to blow them the fuck up!

I've read reports that the civilian contractors will leave new vehicles on the roadside if they have a flat tire. "WTH, we're here on cost plus, doesn't come out of our paycheck."
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-27-04 09:07 PM
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9. It could be one of the Halliburton vehicles that they
lost.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112804W.shtml

  Bowen reported that an audit earlier this summer found KBR had lost track of more than $18 million worth of equipment in Iraq. Investigators could not track down 52 of 164 randomly selected items in an inventory of more than 20,000 items overseen by KBR, including two electric generators worth nearly $1 million, 18 trucks or SUVs and six laptop computers.

    Pentagon and Halliburton officials have been searching since the summer for the missing items and have tracked down many of them. Some were found in the hands of "unauthorized users" and 111 vehicles had not been returned for required check-in, they said.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-27-04 02:44 PM
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8. Why is there always a Texas connection?
this Texas mafia is in control of our country, and we have to either stand up to them or allow them to control us.
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