Goldmund
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Fri Oct-29-04 01:49 PM
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Read the latest Josh Marshall blog entry |
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Edited on Fri Oct-29-04 01:58 PM by slavkomae
In a new disclosure, the senior U.S. military officer and another U.S. official, who also spoke on condition he not be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter, said that an Iraqi working for U.S. intelligence alerted U.S. troops stationed near the al Qaqaa weapons facility that the installation was being looted shortly after the fall of Baghdad on April 9, 2003.
But, they said, the troops took no apparent action to halt the pillaging.
"That was one of numerous times when Iraqis warned us that ammo dumps and other places were being looted and we weren't able to respond because we didn't have anyone to send," said a senior U.S. military officer who served in Iraq.
As Landay's sourcing makes clear, this was coming out of the career military, not from the president's appointees.
More: www.talkingpointsmemo.com
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Fri Oct-29-04 01:52 PM
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1. Snippets- try using Mozilla |
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Edited on Fri Oct-29-04 01:53 PM by depakote_kid
In a new disclosure, the senior U.S. military officer and another U.S. official, who also spoke on condition he not be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter, said that an Iraqi working for U.S. intelligence alerted U.S. troops stationed near the al Qaqaa weapons facility that the installation was being looted shortly after the fall of Baghdad on April 9, 2003.
But, they said, the troops took no apparent action to halt the pillaging.
"That was one of numerous times when Iraqis warned us that ammo dumps and other places were being looted and we weren't able to respond because we didn't have anyone to send," said a senior U.S. military officer who served in Iraq.
As Landay's sourcing makes clear, this was coming out of the career military, not from the president's appointees.
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Fri Oct-29-04 01:58 PM
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