About those missing explosives at al Qaqqaa
[link|http://www.adamyoshida.com/2004/10/mainstream-media-opens-fire.html|Seems they were missing to begin with]
Excerpts:
Now, the story fails to answer one core question: when did these
explosives go missing? It is simply never mentioned anywhere in the body
of the story. American forces, one official is quoted as saying, went
through the facility sometime towards the beginning of the war, saw no
materials carrying the IAEA seal, and moved on. Buried deep within the
story is the most likely explanation for what happened to the stockpile:
it was standard Iraqi practice to, prior to bombing, move explosives out
into the open and camouflage it. In all probability, it was long gone
before any American soldiers ever got near the place...
First: in all probability most of what was at Al Qaqaa and these other
places was looted before the arrival of US troops. Post-war intelligence
confirms what many of us have long believed: that Saddam had, by March
of 2003, abandoned all hope of defeating the United States in a
conventional war and, therefore, had staked his hopes on the victory of
a guerrilla force which, in collaboration with seditionists in America,
would undermine the morale of the American people and force a US
withdrawal.
I say:
This is another overhyped story, very similar to the trumped up
museum looting scandal. The only thing making it different is it comes
very close to the election, leaving very little time to get the
debunking out there.
[link|http://fnmarlowe-politics-world.blogspot.com/2004/10/about-those-missing-explosives-at-al.html|Comment at blogger.com]
[link|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/iraq.html#20041025|Angelfire link] (turn off Javascript to avoid popups)
