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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command
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To: Solid who wrote (22896)10/29/2004 10:44:34 AM
From: cirrus  Read Replies (1) of 27181
 
Did anyone else in the 'mainstream media' pick up on that story? From CNN

Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior Pentagon officials distanced themselves from comments in the Washington Times by Deputy Undersecretary of Defense John Shaw about the explosives.

Shaw said Russian troops working with Iraqi intelligence moved the explosives to Syria and possibly other countries before the war.

Shaw said Russian special forces "almost certainly" removed the material from the Al Qaqaa complex, about 20 miles south of Baghdad, before the war to hide evidence of Russian "contractual arrangements" with the Saddam Hussein regime.

The missing explosives -- RDX and HMX -- were probably of Russian origin, he said.

Shaw, the Pentagon's point person for international technology security, said the Russians brought troops into Iraq before the war to disperse Saddam's weapons.

He said they were moved to Syria, Lebanon and possibly Iran, according to the Washington Times report.

But senior Pentagon officials told CNN they have seen no intelligence information that would corroborate Shaw's assessment.

Asked about Shaw's comments during an interview on WABC radio in New York, Rumsfeld said, "No, I have no information on that at all and cannot validate that even slightly."

Pentagon spokesman Larry DiRita said Shaw was not speaking for the Pentagon and that his views were not those of senior defense officials. DiRita also said that Shaw's superiors were talking to him about his comments.

cnn.com
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