The night of the shooting stars comes to mind. The Sox break the curse (heartthrob Johnny Damon led off the game with a homer off loser Jason Marquis, left), the heavens stage a total eclipse of the Hunter's Moon (our own photo, right, shows last night's full moon framed by Ailanthus leaves, flag halyard and red stripe of Old Glory from our front porch later on, as the light was too dim for our little camera to catch anything much during the actual eclipse itself -- totally awesome orange to the naked eye) and Bill Gertz gets the scoop of the year (see below)
Bill Gertz of The Washington Times appears to have the scoop of the year -- "Russian special forces troops moved many of Saddam Hussein's weapons and related goods out of Iraq and into Syria in the weeks before the March 2003 U.S. military operation" -- but so far this morning all the news shows -- even Fox & Friends -- seem stuck in the time warp of the last news cycle, where the alleged looting of 380 tons of RDX and HMX from Al-Qaqaa is Bush's Fault.™ The current guest on F&F, someone from NPR, is salivating at the possibility that this "October Surprise" may prove to be GW's downfall. Don't any of these people read Drudge? Bill Gertz writes:
John A. Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said in an interview that he believes the Russian troops, working with Iraqi intelligence, "almost certainly" removed the high-explosive material that went missing from the Al-Qaqaa facility, south of Baghdad.
"The Russians brought in, just before the war got started, a whole series of military units," Mr. Shaw said. "Their main job was to shred all evidence of any of the contractual arrangements they had with the Iraqis. The others were transportation units."
Mr. Shaw, who was in charge of cataloging the tons of conventional arms provided to Iraq by foreign suppliers, said he recently obtained reliable information on the arms-dispersal program from two European intelligence services that have detailed knowledge of the Russian-Iraqi weapons collaboration.
The Russian arms-removal program was initiated after Yevgeny Primakov, the former Russian intelligence chief, could not persuade Saddam to give in to U.S. and Western demands, this official said.
Okay, it's coming up on 7 a.m. EDT, and finally the Fox News gal, Lauren Green, is asking provocatively, "Is Russia involved?"
Update: E.D. Hill on Fox & Friends is touting Bill Gertz's story and calling the NYT/CBS/Kerry anti-Bush spin on the "looted" explosives allegations "ridiculous." You go, girl!
Don't any of these people read Drudge?
ROFLMAO
Posted by: JD | October 28, 2004 at 09:35 AM
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Posted by: Sissy Willis | October 28, 2004 at 10:57 AM