The missing explosives
The
NY Times reports that they have the story about the missing 380
tons of explosives right:
White House officials reasserted yesterday that 380 tons of powerful
explosives may have disappeared from a vast Iraqi military complex
while Saddam Hussein controlled Iraq, saying a brigade of American
soldiers did not find the explosives when they visited the complex on
April 10, 2003, the day after Baghdad fell.
But the unit's commander said in an interview yesterday that his
troops had not searched the site and had merely stopped there
overnight.
The commander, Col. Joseph Anderson, of the Second Brigade of the
Army's 101st Airborne Division, said he did not learn until this week
that the site, Al Qaqaa, was considered sensitive, or that
international inspectors had visited it before the war began in 2003
to inspect explosives that they had tagged during a decade of
monitoring.
However, soldiers supposedly from the unit are e-mailing websites
saying that they did inspect the site when they stopped.
In addition, it was reported in February 2003 that the U.N. reported
that Saddam Hussein was moving explosives from Al-Qaqaa
The United Nations nuclear watchdog group stated that Hussein began
moving stockpiles of explosives from his Al-Qaqaa nuclear weapons
facility a month before the U.S. invaded Iraq.
It is suspected that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was
the one who planted the story with CBS in order to get back at the
Bush administration prior to the election.
It has also been reported that a Reuters camera crew embedded with the
scouts from the 101st Airborne Division arrived at the storage
facility, did a quick search noting a number of bunkers filled with
explosives. However, they reported that nothing was marked by the IAEA.
A U.S. weapons inspectors, the Iraq Survey Group, arrived at the site
on May 27, conducting a full search of the 32 bunkers. They did not
find any of the IAEA-marked explosives.
Defense Secretary Rumsfeld was asked about the missing explosives in a
radio interview. He said the specifics are under investigation by the
Iraq Survey Group. Rumsfeld pointed out that Saddam Hussein moved many
weapons and explosives before the war."
Kerry accused President Bush that he ''tried to hide the information
until after the election" about the loss of the explosives. He further
went on to say that American soldiers have been killed and wounded by
the explosives. However, he offered no proof that the accusation was
true. It was also reported by a news service yesterday that the type
of explosive at Al-Qaqaa had not been found in the attacks upon
soldiers in Iraq.
Election legal battles
Newspapers across the nation are covering the legal battles that are
fomenting before election day is even here. A key part of the problem
is the legislation Congress passed after the Florida debacle and the
Supreme Court’s ruling of what ‘fair but equal’ means.
The
Washington Post in the middle of their article states:
Many of the lawsuits have focused on how provisional ballots should be
counted, a new voting procedure that was intended to be an improvement
in balloting. After the disputed 2000 election, Congress declared that
no voter could be turned away at the polls and passed legislation
requiring that provisional ballots be given to those who come to the
polls but whose names are not on the rolls. But the measure left
unclear the standards for determining whether the ballots are valid
and should be counted -- and how quickly -- after Election Day.
The
Washington Times covers the Democrat efforts in Florida to paint
Republicans as intimidating voters:
Democrats in Florida already are pursuing nine election-related
lawsuits, accusing state election officials of conspiring to
disenfranchise minority voters.
Led by the Florida Democratic Party, the People for the American Way,
the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and
the AFL-CIO, the lawsuits target, among others, Florida Secretary of
State Glenda Hood, who was appointed by Republican Gov. Jeb Bush,
President Bush's brother.
The suits say Republican officials refused to count provisional
ballots, improperly disqualified incomplete voter registrations,
established overly restrictive rules to disproportionately hurt
minority voters and actively sought to disenfranchise blacks.
The
LA Times covers the large amount of fraud that is going on:
We were getting stacks of forms with identical handwriting," said
Harvard L. Lomax, registrar of voters in Clark County here. "We were
getting calls from people wanting to know why they were getting
registration forms when they hadn't asked for one. If you went to a
DMV office over the last five months, you were mobbed by people trying
to register you, claiming they were working for us. It was obvious it
was fraud."
Ohio vote fraud
"We have four counties where you have more voters registered than you
have 18 and over population," Ohio’s Republican Governor Bob Taft
said.
"A lot of these voters don't have addresses," he said of the new
registrations. "When they send the postcard out to them, after they
register, that comes back undeliverable. You're talking about
thousands of cases like that all across the State of Ohio," Taft said.
Entire “Stolen Honor” to air
Chronicle DTV Television Network, a digital television network
operated by OlympuSat, Inc. of West Palm Beach, will present the
documentary "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal" in its entirety
throughout the week of Oct. 25, 2004.
Chronicle DTV can be seen on digital networks around the country.
Poll watching, 10/27
Pennsylvania
Franklin & Marshall College/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,
et al, Keystone Poll. Oct. 19-23, 2004. N=376 likely voters (MoE ±
5.1):
Bush 46%
Kerry 51%
Unsure 3%
Florida
American Research Group poll. Oct. 23-25, 2004. N=600
likely voters statewide. MoE ± 4:
Bush 46%
Kerry 49%
Nader 1%
Unsure 4%
Ohio
American Research Group poll. Oct. 23-25, 2004. N=600
likely voters statewide. MoE ± 4:
Bush 47%
Kerry 49%
Unsure 4%
DRUDGE: New Terrorist Tape
According to DRUDGE REPORT,
a new terrorist tape is claiming a future and catastrophic attack on
American soil:
In the last week before the
election, ABCNEWS is holding a videotaped message from a purported al
Qaeda terrorist warning of a new attack on America, the DRUDGE REPORT
has learned.
The terrorist claims on tape
the next attack will dwarf 9/11. "The streets will run with blood,"
and "America will mourn in silence" because they will be unable to
count the number of the dead. Further claims: America has brought this
on itself for electing George Bush who has made war on Islam by
destroying the Taliban and making war on Al Qaeda.
ABCNEWS strongly denies
holding the tape back from broadcast over political concerns during
the last days of the election.
The CIA is analyzing the
tape, a top federal source tells the DRUDGE REPORT.
ABCNEWS obtained the tape
from a source in Waziristan, Pakistan over the weekend, sources tells
DRUDGE.
"We have been working 24
hours a day trying to authenticate [the tape]," a senior ABCNEWS
source said Wednesday morning, dismissing a claim that ABC was
planning to air portions of the video during Monday's WORLD NEWS
TONIGHT.
The terrorist's face is
concealed by a headdress, and he speaks in an American accent, making
it difficult to identify the individual.
US intelligence officials
believe the man on tape may be
Adam Gadhan - aka Adam Pearlman, a California native who was
highlighted by the FBI in May as an individual most likely to be
involved in or have knowledge of the next al Qaeda attacks.
According to the FBI,
Gadahn, 25, attended al-Qaida training camps and served as an al-Qaida
translator.
The disturbing tape runs an hour -- the man simply identifies himself
as 'Assam
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