| Remember the missing explosives the media went apeshit over? [message #124076] |
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SuperFlyingEngi
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Registered: November 2003
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The media went ape over missing explosives?
What are you talking about? Each of the major media outlets spent maybe 5 minutes a day covering the story, while always throwing out counters. The most attention this got was an above-the-fold article in the NYT when the story broke.
You do know that all this article says is that some people under Saddam planned to use some of this explosive for making a couple suicide cars, right? They didn't plan to take all 350 tons of it, and drive 35 big rigs into some UN compound. Above about 10 pounds, HMX and RDX need a shaped charge to contain the explosion enough to make the extra weight worthwhile.
This article also doesn't address how the embedded reporter with the Army unit that passed by al Qa Qaa took pictures of football-field sized rooms lined with explosives AND IAEA seals placed over many doors.
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