...and another example of media negligence. I have seen the media picking up on the fact that the explosives at al-Qaqaa were gone when the soldiers arrived at the site. It took me about 10 minutes to find out, through googling, what the soldiers who could have been guarding al-Qaqaa were doing. The fact that the media is not showing us this very same info, is proof once again that they are lazy and/or biased. Here is what I found:
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NBCNEWS reported: The 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives were already missing back in April 10, 2003 -- when U.S. troops arrived at the installation south of Baghdad!
An NBCNEWS crew embedded with troops moved in to secure the Al-Qaqaa weapons facility on April 10, 2003, one day after the liberation of Iraq.
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This is what the troops were doing on April 2nd 2003:
U.S. Army Sgt. Mark Phiffer stands guard duty near a burning oil well in the Rumaylah Oil Fields in southern Iraq, April 2. Coalition forces have successfully secured the southern oil fields for the economic future of the Iraqi people and are in the process of extinguishing the burning wells that were set ablaze in the early stages of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Photo courtesy Joint Combat Camera Center...
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This is what the troops were doing on April 9th 2003:
anonymous e-mail post from the same day:
• Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 23:20:48 +0800
America is being accepted as a liberator. The scene on CNN just now, the
smile on looters' faces and that dabka dance in the plaza can not be
mistaken for anything else. This is certainly a plus sign for an extended
American stay.
I still have to ask however where is Saddam and where are all of his hundred
thousand Guards? I graciously assumed the fellow had an IQ of 200+ at the
start of the war. I wonder if I have to revise that estimate.