Iraq Reviews > A burning body maybe, but where's the evidence?
[Being American in T.O.] The stickers said to be on the boxes in the video released by ABC evidently are of a substance that is mixed with water (or did ABC use stock footage of boxes that were not at Al Qaqaa?) I've had some small experience with Hazmat designation numbers up here in Canada, and all I know for sure is that the classification numbers are intended to tell emergency crews what they are dealing with - corrosives, explosives, etc. - rather than identify any specific substance.
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Libertyblog: It appears to me that they are in a bunker filled with blasting agents (slower detonation rates for moving rock, see link below on detonation rates) .First we see boosters, (they would commonly be inserted into a bag of ANFO(ammonium nitrate fuel oil) or nitro starch for blasting. (via Cosmos)
Being American in T.O.: 3 - 20:42: Belmont Club gleans a lot of information from the Washington Post article Fallujah Plan is Readied (which is based in part on this ABC report Anatomy of the Attack.) There are indeed strong reasons for believing that the attack was an ambush (and that the men were prepared for that possibility going in) as well as a possibility that there was complicity with Iraqi security forces in Fallujah. He analyzes the cordon around Fallujah and probable strategic decisions in Command Decision. (via Cosmos)
Speed of Thought...: Update: Well, well, well, the tag numbers don't match? Hmmm. Others are speaking also . Can you say RatherGate? Update II: Everybody in the MSM is talking about the wrong site? So all this means, well, nothing? LMAO! Posted at 09:49 PM Link (via Cosmos)
The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta: Powerline is highly skeptical of the claims made in this morning's NYT piece that: "... the videotape and some of the agency's photographs of the HMX stockpiles "were such good matches it looked like they were taken by the same camera on the same day."" According to a munitions expert who contacted Powerline, the material depicted in the video could hardly have been RDX or HMX: (via Cosmos)
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