Weapons of Mass Distraction A good linked summary of the still-building saga of the already infamous NYT Judith Miller WMD story can be found at rationalenquirer.org. Latest development is Bush citing the same mysterious source as Miller for the alleged last-second destruction of Iraq's WMD's.
http://www.rationalenquirer.org/comment/archives/000026.html The Rational Enquirer - Comment - Follow Along April 25, 2003 Follow Along * On Monday, April 21, the New York Times publishes an unsourced and unconfirmed front page story http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/international/worldspecial/21CHEM.ht ml by Judith Miller claiming an Iraqi "scientist" -- or some guy in nondescript clothes and a baseball cap -- has told an American military team that Saddam's weapons of mass destruction were destroyed or sent to Syria, and that Iraq was recently cooperating with Al Qaeda. The article raises some eyebrows http://slate.msn.com/id/2081774/ in the journalistic community, with once source inside the Times calling it a "wacky ass piece," http://www2.observer.com/observer/pages/offtherec.asp adding that there were "real questions about it and why it was on page 1." * Miller's wacky ass article is republished in dozens of newspapers and web sites. Rush Limbaugh calls Miller's piece "a big, huge, very important story," focusing on the alleged Al Qaeda-Iraq "cooperation." Hours after Miller's original article makes the rounds, the AP quotes http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/iraq/5685 060.htm a senior defense official as saying the baseball player's claim of Al Qaeda-Iraq cooperation is "highly skeptical," and that no new discoveries have been made in Iraq that link Saddam to Al Qaeda. * On Tuesday's NewsHour, Miller upgrades http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june03/search_04-22.htm l the guy in nondescript clothes and a baseball cap from a "smoking gun" to a "silver bullet," though she has yet to interview him. While wet with excitement, her story remains unconfirmed and unsourced. Critics http://slate.msn.com/id/2081942/ rightly howl, http://slate.msn.com/id/2081905/ with one saying http://www.todaysalternativenews.com/index.php?event=link,150&values[0 ]=2&values[1]=617 Miller "was blowing more smoke than a Ford that has thrown a rod at 80 miles an hour." * On Thursday, April 24, President Bush speaks http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/04/20030424-6.html at a tank factory in Ohio and suggests Iraq's WMD may have already been destroyed. Afterward, the Associated Press reports: http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2003/04/24/Iraq_weapons/ "A senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Bush's remarks were based on information from at least one Iraqi scientist who has led coalition forces to materials used in the production of weapons of mass destruction and who has said some weapons were destroyed before the war, others perhaps afterward." ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/O10svD/Me7FAA/AG3JAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
