FINAL UPDATE 9:42pm pacific time
Before I fall off the Recommended list I wanted to offer a link to BigDog04's diary with a truly massive media e-mail list. In the previous up date is the link to the DNC "I don't worry about Osama Ad" a/k/a "Exageration" ad... Get it out to them in an e-mail blitz. Many thanks.
Massive media e-mail list
UPDATE #5 4:00pm pacific time
Can you say "exaggeration"... This is an opportunity, folks! A lay up with 2 minutes to go in the fourth quarter. DNC needs to hit hard in swing states with this ad starting tomorrow! Kerry can't (because of te debate agreement) and shouldn't (because his surrogates need to take this on).
I never said I don't worry about Osama Bin Laden... That's what you call an E X A G E R A T I O N!
ATTACK! ATTACK! ATTACK!
more below fold...
UPDATE #4 11:41 pacific time
What if the administration launches a Fallujah attack over the weekend?
Is the Kerry team prepared? How should it respond. This would be the ultimate cynical political use of the Pentagon. Please offer advice in the comments.
UPDATE #3 11:05 pacific time
See comments re: Pentagon Press conference.
MSNBC is on it.
But CNN still ignores.
UPDATE #2 9:08 pacific time
More damning eveidence via Andrew Sullivan and flit...
http://www.snappingturtle.net/flit/archives/2004_10_29.html#23004931
UPDATE 8:10am pacific time
Per courtjester and the Independent...
Eyewitnesses say Alqaqaa was looted AFTER troops left.
Relevant passage...
Al-Qaqa'a, the Iraqi military complex from which 350 tons of explosives disappeared, was looted after US troops left the area refusing requests to protect the site, Iraqi witnesses say.
They say unguarded buildings were stripped of their contents after the arrival and departure of American troops in the last few days of the war.
Independent story
ORIGINAL POST
The following website demonstrates that the trucks shown on Pentagon satellite photos were NOT next to bunkers containing explosives.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iraq/al_qa_qaa-imagery4.htm
The site compares IAEA maps with the satellite photos and persuasively concludes that the trucks are near a storage dump that is hundreds of yards away from the nearest depot known to have HMX explosives.
Infuriating! In the face of David Kay's "Game. Set. Match." reaction to the ABC affiliate footage of explosives found by US troops at Al Qaqaa - remember that Kay is a man who went out of his way to absolve the administration of bad faith on WMD - nevertheless, the SCLM still presents this Pentagon photography and takes the administration's word for it.
Jamie McIntyre reported on CNN that "We know that depot (on the Pentagon's photograph) had explosives in it." This was an outright untruth. Why did McIntyre just take the Pentagon's word for granted? Why didn't he check the maps?
Why is NBC avoiding the story? The Washington Post, CBS, Time and Newsweek? Ideas?