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Offline rpm

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« on: October 27, 2004, 02:55:17 AM »
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Army unit not ordered to make Iraqi explosives search
NEW YORK (AP) — The first U.S. military unit to reach the Al-Qaqaa military installation after the fall of Baghdad did not have orders to search for the nearly 400 tons of explosives that are missing from the site, the unit spokesman said Tuesday.
When troops from the 101st Airborne Division's 2nd Brigade arrived at the Al-Qaqaa base a day or so after coalition troops seized Baghdad on April 9, 2003, there were already looters throughout the facility, Lt. Col. Fred Wellman, deputy public affairs officer for the unit, told The Associated Press.

The soldiers "secured the area they were in and looked in a limited amount of bunkers to ensure chemical weapons were not present in their area," Wellman wrote in an e-mail message. "Bombs were found but not chemical weapons in that immediate area.

"Orders were not given from higher to search or to secure the facility or to search for HE type munitions, as they (high-explosive weapons) were everywhere in Iraq," he wrote.

His remarks appeared to confirm the observations of an NBC reporter embedded with the army unit who said Tuesday that she saw no signs that the Americans searched for the powerful explosives during their 24 hours at the facility en route to Baghdad, 30 miles to the north.

No search, no guards posted to stop looters. Why didn't the Bush team plan the basic task of guarding ammo dumps?
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« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2004, 04:01:33 AM »
All the oil fields in Iraq were the first priority to be secured.  Georgey boy allowed the Museum of Iraq to be looted of priceless artifacts (from mesopotamia).
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Re: 101st:"We were never ordered to search"
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2004, 04:20:45 AM »
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No search, no guards posted to stop looters.  


Not true, they secured the oil ministry against looting...

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« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2004, 04:30:29 AM »
lmfao..you dum potatos


that was gutted way before 2003


u player haters need to get a life ..
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« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2004, 08:13:43 AM »
Do you guys ever get tired of being wrong?
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« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2004, 08:16:36 AM »
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Do you guys ever get tired of being wrong?


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« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2004, 08:19:53 AM »
as for the ammo dump, we used that area to stage for the push on saddam international airport, we never stuck around to count rounds, there were plenty of units behind us so i dont think that there was much looting of the ammo dump after we left the area. the museum was being looted while we were still south of the airport. i know, i was there..... then again maybe everyone missed that on CNN.
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Offline Toad

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« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2004, 08:25:33 AM »
101... what the heck could you possibly know?

Hang on a bit and we'll have a Euro here to explain to you what you saw and what you did and what actually happened to you.

Your welcome.















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« Reply #8 on: October 27, 2004, 08:29:06 AM »
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101... what the heck could you possibly know?

Hang on a bit and we'll have a Euro here to explain to you what you saw and what you did and what actually happened to you.

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« Reply #9 on: October 27, 2004, 08:31:54 AM »
this is funny... rpm is buying it again!  You would think that after going out and buying an IBM 70's model typewriter to duplicate blathers phony memo he would have learned.

Think I will believe the soldiers that were there.

And... if the oil fields were not secured and were set on fire (could that ever happen?)....

How would the people every recover economicaly?   Wouldn't the greenies have a coniption fit?

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Offline Yeager

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« Reply #10 on: October 27, 2004, 08:38:48 AM »
these are same misguided people that are going to vote for terror...err...I mean Kerry.
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« Reply #11 on: October 27, 2004, 08:47:13 AM »
Toad - or maybe it will be a Yank? Fancy that.
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« Reply #12 on: October 27, 2004, 08:48:05 AM »
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No search, no guards posted to stop looters. Why didn't the Bush team plan the basic task of guarding ammo dumps?


The Bush team as in...the US military? The Division? The unit commander who happened to pass through that area? Maybe W should have ridden shotgun and micromanaged the entire war effort. This nonsense is getting more and more ridiculous the closer we get to the election.
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« Reply #13 on: October 27, 2004, 08:52:34 AM »
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101... what the heck could you possibly know?

Hang on a bit and we'll have a Euro here to explain to you what you saw and what you did and what actually happened to you.

Your welcome.











yea you are right, i guess that i saw it all wrong... ok folks let it rip.  














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Offline rpm

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« Reply #14 on: October 27, 2004, 12:16:25 PM »
101, I you for your service. It was NOT the fault of the 101st, it was much further up the chain. You did the job you were told to do. Too bad the planners never put someone in place so your fellow soldiers did'nt have to deal with IED's today.
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