One last point for the evening.
If you go to the MSNBC website, the headline on the al Qa Qaa story reads: “Paper: Iraq tells U.S. of missing explosives.”
Please.
That not only doesn’t square with simple logic, it doesn’t even match with what the article in Times says.
The issue here is that the Iraqis finally told the IAEA.
The material seems to have been missing since some time shortly after the US invasion of Iraq in March/April 2003. So this isn’t something that just happened. It probably happened some eighteen months ago.
What’s more, the Times piece notes explicitly that Iraqi officials say they told Jerry Bremer about this last May. By definition, that means that the US government knew about this almost six months ago, and while it was still the occupying power.
And all this on top of the fact that IAEA officials have told journalists from several news outlets, including the Nelson Report, that the Bush administration not only failed to notify the IAEA of this while the US was still the occupying power but has pressured the Iraqis not to inform the IAEA both before and after the July 1st handover of power.
Are those facts covered by “Iraq tells U.S. of missing explosives”?
Please.
