{"id":2932,"date":"2004-10-26T14:01:13","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T21:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/10\/iraqi-explosives-story\/"},"modified":"2004-10-26T14:01:13","modified_gmt":"2004-10-26T21:01:13","slug":"iraqi-explosives-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/26\/iraqi-explosives-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi explosives story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tSo CBS had planned to run the story about 380 tons of explosives missing in Iraq (out of 600,000 total) this weekend in order to sink the Bush re-elect effort, but the NY Times beat them to the punch. Unfortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/6323933\/\">NBC News has busted them:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>An NBC News crew that accompanied U.S. soldiers who seized the Al-Qaqaa base three weeks into the war in Iraq reported that troops discovered significant stockpiles of bombs, but no sign of the missing HMX and RDX explosives.<\/p>\n<p>Reporter Lai Ling Jew, who was embedded with the Army?s 101st Airborne, Second Brigade, said Tuesday on MSNBC TV that the news team stayed at the Al-Qaqaa base for about 24 hours. <\/p>\n<p>?No move to secure the weapons?<br \/>\n?There wasn?t a search,? she said. ?The mission that the brigade had was to get to Baghdad. That was more of a pit stop there for us. And, you know, the searching, I mean certainly some of the soldiers headed off on their own, looked through the bunkers just to look at the vast amount of ordnance lying around. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fact that this story comes from a UN official desperate to shut down the Oil-for-Palaces scam is very disturbing, but not so disturbing that the Soros Brigade of Marshall, Brock, and Black didn&#8217;t run with it.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So CBS had planned to run the story about 380 tons of explosives missing in Iraq (out of 600,000 total) this weekend in order to sink the Bush re-elect effort, but the NY Times beat them to the punch. Unfortunately, NBC News has busted them: An NBC News crew that accompanied U.S. soldiers who seized &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/26\/iraqi-explosives-story\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Iraqi explosives story&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Li","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}