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Originally posted by Cowperson@Oct 29 2004, 09:45 AM
It's interesting that in this thread we have one reporter, Dana Lewis of NBC News, a Canadian no less, saying nothing was at the ammo site and a Minneapolic crew saying there was. An obvious contrast and debate.
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this interview, Lewis says that
"I’ve had those seals described to me, and I can tell you that as we went from the bunkers certainly there were wires and there were locks but I don’t recall ever seeing an IAEA stamp on any of them. It doesn’t mean that there weren’t any of them." I don't see him anywhere saying nothing was at the site.
From what I gathered from the Pentagon briefing this morning:
Sometime before the war started there are photos of a number of Iraqi trucks at Al-Qaqaa
April 10 Troops from the 101st Airborne Division’s (with Lewis) spend 24 hours at the site, search for chemical weapons — but not high explosives — and then head to Baghdad. Al-Qaqaa is left unguarded.
April 13 the Major at the Pentagon briefing and a number of US forces remove ~250 tonnes of munitions and equiptment from Al-qaqaa, but don't know whether any of it was the high explosives people are concerned about. Al-Qaqaa is left unguarded.
April 18 a handful of US troops and the Minnessota reporter arrive, break open IAEA sealed bunkers and find tonnes of explosives. The IAEA says they only put seals over high explosives. Al-Qaqaa is left unguarded.
After April 18, everything else cleared out by
someone