Misleader documents that AP Wire/GOP missing 380 tons story is Bogus-MNTV

[papau]

news team provides further proof that the administration's theory is bogus

www.Misleader.org

ADMINISTRATION MISLEADS ON MISSING EXPLOSIVES

The Bush administration is pushing the theory that the 380 tons of explosives were missing from the Al Qaqaa storage facility before the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. Administration spokesman Dan Senor said on CNN that "there's a very high probability that those weapons weren't even there before the war."<1>

For days, this theory has been in direct conflict with a Pentagon official, who told the Associate Press on Monday, "US-led coalition troops had searched Al Qaqaa in the immediate aftermath of the March 2003 invasion and confirmed that the explosives, which had been under IAEA seal since 1991, were intact."<2>

Now, video shot in Iraq by a Minneapolis news team provides further proof that the administration's theory is bogus. After the invasion - on April 18, 2003 - the Minneapolis ABC news crew was stationed just south of the Al Qaqaa facility.[]3 That day, they drove 2 to 3 miles north with the 101st Airborne Division. There, "members of the 101st Airborne Division showed the 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS news crew bunker after bunker of material labeled 'explosives.'"<4> Some of the boxes were marked "Al Qaqaa."<5> One soldier told the crew: "we can stick in those and make some good bombs."<6> Watch the video:
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1338421&l=65509.

Sources:

1. "Paula Zahn Now," CNN, 10/26/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1338421&l=65510.
2. "380 tons of explosives missing in Iraq," Associated Press, 10/25/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1338421&l=65511.
3. "5 EYEWITNESS NEWS video may be linked to missing explosives in Iraq," KSTP.com, 10/28/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1338421&l=65512.
4. Ibid, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1338421&l=65512.
5. Ibid, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1338421&l=65512.
6. Ibid, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1338421&l=65512.

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

1. I'm confused...they sent Rudy out to blame troops for missing expl.

and they are also saying that they were missing before invasion? Am I confused or are they just fucking morons? I'm serious...what is going on here?

[papau]

2. What ever the media wants to say that excuses Bush - whatever sticks to

the wall!

:toast:

It is great that the media gives anything GOP/Bush such great credibility!

:party:

:-)

[Sinnerman]

4. Kerry/Edwards 2004

We Will WIn

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. Standard tactics --

Spread around several different lies about the same subject, and each lie will resonate with a different part of their base, which then ignores all the other lies as well as the truth being told by dems.

Why invade Iraq?
Iraq was a threat.
It was the WMDs.
It was Al Queda.
It was for Democracy.
It was for the oil.

[kanrok]

3. Good catch

Nominated for front page. I already sent it to a repug friend who is drinking the repub kool-aid on this issue. Cannot wait for his response.

[papau]

6. Here are the photo's of the Seals - still intact - no looting - from KSTP

Seals used by the IAEA (top). A seal on an Iraqi bunker door videotaped by a 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS crew on April 18, 2003 (bottom).

OK but which they had said more about this "seal" image that they posted to their web site.



BREAKING from KSTP (photos of IAEA seals)

http://kstp.com/article/stories/S3741.html?cat=1

A 5 Eyewitness News crew in Iraq may have been just a door away from materials that could be used to detonate nuclear weapons. The evidence is in videotape shot by Reporter Dean Staley and Photographer Joe Caffrey at or near the Al Qaqaa munitions facility.

The video shows a cable locking a door shut. That cable is connected by a copper colored seal.

A spokesperson for the International Atomic Energy Agency told 5 Eyewitness News that seal appears to be one used by their inspectors. "In Iraq they were used when there was a concern that this could have a, what we call, dual use purpose, that there could be a nuclear weapons application."

[Sebum]

7. What BS they try to smear!