I guess you missed the part about there "NOT" being any sign of said missing materials IE "no proof they were STILL in Al Qaqaa" at the beginning of the invasion. Hype is not tangible.
http://belmontclub.blogspot.com/ "For the NYT assertion that the explosives vanished sometime after US custody to be true, the RDX would necessarily have to be present when 3ID and 101st got there. But if, as MSNBC emphasizes, we don't know what there was -- didn't know they were not there -- then necessarily we don't know they were there. A null value cannot be true or false as one prefers. It is null." an email from a soldier who had knowledge of the al Qa Qaa search and reiterates that the RDX was already gone when the teams first arrived. "I was serving as a staff member during the time in question. The Commander on the site had complete real time intelligence on what to expect and possibly find at the Al-QaQaa depot. The ordinance in question was not found when teams were sent in to inspect and secure the area. When this information was relayed, Operational plans were adjusted and the unit moved forward. Had the ordinance in question been discovered, a security team would have been left in place." Faced with an invasion of Iraq in 2003, Saddam carried out his own sideslip maneuver into a redoubt. The Duelfer report notes that Saddam may have begun moving his WMD materials into Syria as the US vainly attempted to get UN authorization to topple his regime. Duelfer agreed that a large amount of material had been transferred by Iraq to Syria before the March 2003 war. "A lot of materials left Iraq and went to Syria," Duelfer said. "There was certainly a lot of traffic across the border points. We've got a lot of data to support that, including people discussing it. But whether in fact in any of these trucks there was WMD-related materials, I cannot say." > > > I didn't realize we were talking about media hype Stuntman I thought we were > talking about what happened to these explosives and 60 minutes bad judgement > doesn't change the fact that they > failed to secure them. > Here's the latest story hot off the press and it's straight from the 101st > Airborne Division's second brigade soldiers. > > Associated Press > > A U.S. military unit that reached a munitions storage installation after the > invasion of Iraq had no orders to search or secure the site, where officials > say nearly 400 tons of explosives have vanished. > When troops from the 101st Airborne Division's 2nd Brigade arrived at the > Al-Qaqaa installation south of Baghdad a day or so after other coalition > troops seized the capital on April 9, 2003, there were already looters > throughout the facility, Lt. Col. Fred Wellman, deputy public affairs > officer for the unit, told The Associated Press. > The soldiers "secured the area they were in and looked in a limited amount > of bunkers to ensure chemical weapons were not present in their area," > Wellman wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press. "Bombs were found but > not chemical weapons in that immediate area. > "Orders were not given from higher to search or to secure the facility or to > search for HE type munitions, as they (high-explosive weapons) were > everywhere in Iraq," he wrote. -- TRUNCIATED DUE TO REPETITION--------------------- -- It's not the fall that hurts. Home page http://tnthompson0.tripod.com/homeincyberspace/ Graphics portfolio http://tnthompson1.tripod.com/index.htm Domain space http://nw-in.com/index.html
