| Submit your comments on this article |
| Iraq-Jordan |
| Dang Decimal Point - 3 tons of explosives not 300+ tons |
| 2004-10-28 |
| Discrepancy Found in Explosives Amounts Documents Show Iraqis May Be Overstating Amount of Missing Material Oct. 27, 2004 — Iraqi officials may be overstating the amount of explosives reported to have disappeared from a weapons depot, documents obtained by ABC News show. The Iraqi interim government has told the United States and international weapons inspectors that 377 tons of conventional explosives are missing from the Al-Qaqaa installation, which was supposed to be under U.S. military control. Decimal point, man! Where is the decimal point? But International Atomic Energy Agency documents obtained by ABC News and first reported on "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings" indicate the amount of missing explosives may be substantially less than the Iraqis reported. Peter Jennings ignored the reporters statement about quantity... The information on which the Iraqi Science Ministry based an Oct. 10 memo in which it reported that 377 tons of RDX explosives were missing — presumably stolen due to a lack of security — was based on "declaration" from July 15, 2002. At that time, the Iraqis said there were 141 tons of RDX explosives at the facility. al-Baradei doesn't get our support to continue in his slot, so he's doing, he hopes, payback! But the confidential IAEA documents obtained by ABC News show that on Jan. 14, 2003, the agency's inspectors recorded that just over 3 tons of RDX was stored at the facility — a considerable discrepancy from what the Iraqis reported. The IAEA documents could mean that 138 tons of explosives were removed from the facility long before the start of the United States launched "Operation Iraqi Freedom" in March 2003. The missing explosives have become an issue in the presidential campaign. Sen. John Kerry has pointed to the disappearance as evidence of the Bush administration's poor handling of the war. The Bush camp has responded that more than a thousand times that amount of explosives or munitions have been recovered or destroyed in Iraq. Don't confuse Lurch with the facts. Russian Special Forces before the invasion? Shhhh! The IAEA documents from January 2003 found no discrepancy in the amount of the more dangerous HMX explosives thought to be stored at Al-Qaqaa, but they do raise another disturbing possibility. The documents show IAEA inspectors looked at nine bunkers containing more than 194 tons of HMX at the facility. Although these bunkers were still under IAEA seal, the inspectors said the seals may be potentially ineffective because they had ventilation slats on the sides. These slats could be easily removed to remove the materials inside the bunkers without breaking the seals, the inspectors noted. al-Baradei and his merry gang of Keystone Cops! What's a few seals between friends. Just feed 'em sardines, and they will disappear! |
| Posted by:BigEd |
| #11 Ok, guys....three days left in October for the "Surprise"! I am gonna be so damn happy when this election is over..... |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2004-10-28 4:26:15 PM |
| #10 Asshat response: Though the decimal point is an Islamic innovation (like the works of Shakespeare) and therefore entitled to multi-cultural acknowledgement, it must be kept in mind that the notion of absolute value in numbers is an oppressive and rigid concept whose prevalence should be attributed properly to the effort by white, male capitalist elements to continue their hegemonistic dominance. Selah. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-10-28 3:45:57 PM |
| #9 Bwahhaaaaaa.....if the MSM has ANY credibility left after this election - it just proves that you can fool some of the people all of the time. |
| Posted by: 2b 2004-10-28 2:24:02 PM |
| #8 El Baradei and Kerry got confused by the metric system? |
| Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) 2004-10-28 1:18:17 PM |
| #7 Hey! You know I bet if we fax the document around about 50 times I bet we get get this decimal point to disappear! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-10-28 12:53:05 PM |
| #6 More in-kind campaign contributions to the Kerry campaign from the media. The FEC needs to look into this. We need the FCC to do something, actually not do something: renew the licenses of directly-owned stations. |
| Posted by: jackal 2004-10-28 12:48:51 PM |
| #5 It would have been a Machiavellian trick, but if the Bush Admin had known of the subsequent details, they could have held their fire, and bought TV time immediately after 60 minutes on Sunday, and shown all contradictory evidence.... 1% of original quantity, and moved out before war by Russian Special Forces, and Iraqi Secret Service. Maybe actual WMDs (nerve gas). Why else would they need the Russians there? Remember they found nerve gas antidote at QaQaa! If they didn't tell CBS what they would do... Just cut to a live broadcast of the Prez, it would have beeen interesting. But the NY Times jumped the gun, and it looks like Lurch has egg all over his botoxified face. The entire 60 Mins crew would cry "foul", of course, and "set-up", which like Lurch, is what they were trying to do to the Prez. Next "October Surprise"? I still say that if the MSM or some Kerry lackey like mister Maine nutball fisherman, who had the DUI stuff, tries something, a 527 with a {wink-wink} from Bush has the General Discharge docs along with an ad detailing Kerry's treasonous meetings with the Viet Cong in Paris in 1970. This is not being released because not only would it end Kerry's political career, it would strike at him personally. Treason implications would affect someone like a major sex crime of some sort. And there would be no sympathy backlash. Remember there was the desired effect of that 20-yr old DUI on Bush, and Bush is the kind of fellow who would only resort to this if he felt he were being seriously cheated. If all he would say about Senator Kennedy Bagogas was that he was "uncivil", after all the personal attacks, means he's a better man than most of us, but , because of the terror implications of someone of Kerry's ilk cheating his way in, abetted by MSM sycophants, then he would be forced to act, and probably feel bad about it.... After Bagogas' attacks last spring, I Emailed the White House and told them that the Prez was being to nice, that the attacks were very personal, and if it were me, I'd have the notion to do more than call the fat jackass "uncivil"... SO much in Bagogas' past is rife for study... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-10-28 10:50:40 AM |
| #4 The strategy is clear: Let Kerry bloviate, then point out that the stuff was WMD components. Therefore, there WAS WMD in Iraq. If they object that it wasn't WMD, but just plain explosives, why have it under IAEA seal? If it's "dual use", then it IS WMD (Recall the "dual use" agricultural helicopters sold as crop sprayers that were converted to chem warfare attack helicopters to gas the Kurds. Fool us once...) |
| Posted by: Ptah 2004-10-28 10:36:08 AM |
| #3 somebody at CBS must look like a genius for trying to hang on to this story until next weekend. Avioded another Rathergate. Waiting for the NYT retraction in 5,4,3..... |
| Posted by: john 2004-10-28 10:26:13 AM |
| #2 Hey, what's 138 tons of high explosives between friends! The NYT always rounds up when they're attacking Bush. |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-10-28 8:24:08 AM |
| #1 Reality looks like Scrappleface again. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-10-28 7:24:38 AM |