3rd ID Explored Al Qaqaa Before 101st Airborne
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Yesterday, NBC debunked a NY Times-CBS News story, saying:"April 10, 2003, only three weeks into the war, NBC News was embedded with troops from the Army's 101st Airborne as they temporarily take over the Al Qaqaa weapons installation south of Baghdad. But these troops never found the nearly 380 tons of some of the most powerful conventional explosives, called HMX and RDX, which is now missing."
However, dated AP reports indicate that the 3rd Infantry division explored the same site before the NBC embedded reporter arrived on April 10th.
It was reported by the Associated Press on April 4th, 2003 that " Col. Peabody, (engineer brigade commander of the 3rd Infantry Division), told an Associated Press reporter that troops at al Qa Qaa also discovered atropine, used to counter the effects of nerve agents, and 2-Pam chloride, which is used in combination with atropine in case of chemical attack."
AP added: "Col. John Peabody, said troops found thousands of five-centimetre by 12-centimetre boxes, each containing three vials of white powder, together with documents written in Arabic that dealt with how to engage in chemical warfare."
In order to move 380 tons of explosive materials, it would require the use of 40 semi-trailers and at least 100 men. Therefore, the theory that the weapons were moved out of Al Qaqaa, while U.S. forces were in Iraq, is highly implausible. Furthermore, the Iraqi army was in full retreat, at that time, and there was no organized insurgency.
The only person who could have organized such a massive operation, removing 380 tons of weapons, was Saddam.
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It is also being reported that CBS was planning to run this story the night before the elections. They collaborated with the NY Times on the weapons cache story.
National Review is reporting that Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, leaked the story to the NY Times.
Recently, El Baradei has come under fire by the Bush Administration for his failure to discover Libya's nuclear weapons program.
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