Using GPS technology and talking with members of the 101st Airborne Division, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has determined the crew embedded with the troops may have been on the southern edge of the Al Qaqaa installation, where the ammunition disappeared. The news crew was based just south of Al Qaqaa, and drove two or three miles north of there with soldiers on April 18, 2003.
During that trip, members of the 101st Airborne Division showed the 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS news crew bunker after bunker of material labelled "explosives." Usually it took just the snap of a bolt cutter to get into the bunkers and see the material identified by the 101st as detonation cords.
Well then. I don't think this is the sort of thing that should sway votes, but the news media sure will make hay.
Via Hesiod.
Posted by Walter at October 28, 2004 02:47 PMI view it as just another nail in the coffin, combined with the report in The Lancet that 100,000 Iraqis have died unnecessarily in the past 18 months.
I do wonder why the labels on the explosive containers are in English, not Arabic.
Posted by: Michael Ditto at October 28, 2004 03:04 PMEnglish is the international language of commerce. Lots of goods are labeled in English.
Posted by: qwerty at October 28, 2004 08:46 PM