A job well done

Ao que parece as toneladas de explosivos que estavam na base de Al-Qaqaa, despareceram após a chegada ao local das tropas norte-americanas. O que nega as afirmações de Donald Rumsfeld [negações que já se tornaram um clássico].

É isso que revela uma cassete vídeo, segundo noticia o USA Today:

"Tape may show U.S. forces with now-missing explosives "

"WASHINGTON (AP) — Videotape shot by a Minnesota television crew traveling with U.S. troops in Iraq when they first opened the bunkers at the Al-Qaqaa munitions base nine days after the fall of Saddam Hussein shows what appeared to be high explosives still in barrels and bearing the markings of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The video taken by KSTP of St. Paul on April 18, 2003, could reinforce suggestions that tons of explosives missing from a munitions installation in Iraq were looted after the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. The video was broadcast nationally Thursday on ABC".

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"Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld entered the debate Thursday, suggesting the 377 tons of explosives were taken away before U.S. forces arrived, saying any large effort to loot the material afterward would have been detected".

Mais um motivo para Bush se orgulhar do trabalho feito.

j.marioteixeira@sapo.pt