Guest willy.wonka Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/12/...lear/index.html Some 380 tons of explosives powerful enough to detonate nuclear warheads are missing from a former Iraqi military facility that was supposed to be under American control, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency says. :pumpkin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 i think this was already posted in the crossfire section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest willy.wonka Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 oh...fucking crossfire. im never gonna get used to this i guess i'll just be willy and look at stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metallix Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 WHO GIVES A FUCK? THIS NEW IS 2 YEARS OLD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poop Man Bob Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 ^^^ Actually, no, as the NYTimes "broke" the story with an above-the-fold article yesterday (Monday). http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/25/internat...ast/25bomb.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metallix Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 well then it's been censored obviously. "Earlier this month, in a letter to the I.A.E.A. in Vienna, a senior official from Iraq's Ministry of Science and Technology wrote that the stockpile disappeared after early April 2003 because of "the theft and looting of the governmental installations due to lack of security."" "The Qaqaa stockpile went unmonitored from late 1998, when United Nations inspectors left Iraq, to late 2002, when they came back. Upon their return, the inspectors discovered that about 35 tons of HMX were missing. The Iraqis said they had used the explosive mainly in civilian programs." this information is 2 years old.. someone must be sharing it for a specific reason now.. election time isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poop Man Bob Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 So were you privy to the letter? Unless you were, your "WHO GIVES A FUCK? THIS NEW IS 2 YEARS OLD" is incorrect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poop Man Bob Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 Merely because something comes to light at date X, yet some of the events involved in the story occurred at date X-2, does not mean the event is per se un-newsworthy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metallix Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 yea but why wasn't it newsworthy 2 years ago and now has become newsworthy? im just saying its all lies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poop Man Bob Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 Wait, what happened two years ago that you believe is key? I think you're misreading the article. The Iraqi Provisional Government just announced that they believe the site was looted and that the explosives have gone missing. You're essentially stating that the press should not report this because a) it's close to election day, and b) although it was just announced and made public, some of the events related to this story occurred in the past. Lame. And saying "its all lies" without adding anything else does little for your argument. I know you love conspiracy theories, but I'm not going to let you spout off conclusory statements without any support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BROWNer Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 things keep getting better and better don't they? rambley mcramblestinks.. it's hard not to concede that this disaster has incredible fringe benefits for the few, which happen to include members of bush's own team and wealthy US commissar's, and that perhaps this was and always is the fundament..the bones of all weapons heavy interventions. the fact that it's a shithole is of little concern up until the profits for the m/i complex begin to stall. am i off the mark? take a look at the incredible profits of arms dealing by the US, which incidentally is the world leader, to practically any and all regimes and horrendous dictatorships..that is, there is zero ethical boundary. the motives are distinct and disgusting. on and on..blahblahblah...well, i feel the turtle pushing cloth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metallix Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 Originally posted by Poop Man Bob@Oct 26 2004, 09:42 AM Wait, what happened two years ago that you believe is key? I think you're misreading the article. The Iraqi Provisional Government just announced that they believe the site was looted and that the explosives have gone missing. You're essentially stating that the press should not report this because a) it's close to election day, and b) although it was just announced and made public, some of the events related to this story occurred in the past. Lame. And saying "its all lies" without adding anything else does little for your argument. I know you love conspiracy theories, but I'm not going to let you spout off conclusory statements without any support. Quoted post yes we know your a lawyer. im not. so im not going to talk in lawyer speak. i could spend 1 hour explaining how propaganda operates with facts and evidence. i could write you a paper on it. these are not conspiracy theories. what im saying is that this information is strategically released at a strategic moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poop Man Bob Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 Ha! My choice of schooling has nothing to do with the fact that you made a blanket statement without providing any support, and still can't now that you got called on it. Don't pin this on me, hoss. But it's whatever .. no more arguing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrChupacabra Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 Originally posted by willy.wonka+Oct 25 2004, 11:10 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (willy.wonka - Oct 25 2004, 11:10 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>380 tonsQuoted post [/b] <!--QuoteBegin-metallix@Oct 26 2004, 12:26 AM 35 tons Quoted post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justaname Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 ready for another terror alert before the election? this shit could be use as a possible weapons for the terrorists to attack the u.s again... amazing.... but on a serious note though, that's some fucked up shit. how can someone stole 300 something tons of explosives and not get caught? all that billions dollars spent on iraq and still, we can't control a fucking facility? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porque Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 ...you're way off metallix...this is brand new news...the group, IAEA, discovered it back in july or august i believe, and notified both the iraqi interim government as well as the pentagon...it was not released to teh press by either authority...the new york times broke the article which was followed shortly by a press release from the IAEA confiming the story...furthur information shows that going into the war, the pentagon labeled the base and the securement of teh materials as a moderate concern... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClueTwo Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 Here is the latest on the missing explosives. Rush reported that they had been burned and destryed although after reading from his source it clearly says that all of the explosives have not been accounted for, exactly 127 TONS of them to be exact. I think RUSH was just a little off..... "Pentagon spokesman Larry DiRita acknowledged the Defense Department did not have all the answers and could not yet account for all of the missing explosives, but stressed that the major's disclosure was a significant development in unraveling the mystery." http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,137017,00.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
POIESIS Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 rush limbaugh is a fucking tard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClueTwo Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 Originally posted by POIESIS@Oct 29 2004, 11:08 AM rush limbaugh is a fucking tard. Quoted post Thanks for the re-confirmation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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