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The NY Times bogus weapons-cache story

Drudge is reporting that NBC News is reporting that the weapons cache the NY Times "reported" on yesterday was already gone when our troops got there, back in April 2003!

Yet again, the media bias is the story, not the story they told you. I'm angry. Also, as I understand it, the IAEA was the source for the NY Times story. So, not only is the "mainstream" media trying to unseat the president, but so is a U.N. agency!

As Drudge writes:

Why is the U.N. nuclear agency suddenly warning now that insurgents in Iraq may have obtained nearly 400 tons of missing explosives -- in early 2003?

NBCNEWS Jim Miklaszewski quoted one official: "Recent disagreements between the administration and the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency makes this announcement appear highly political."

There's not much else to say. Notice in that Drudge report how many times the respective TV news networks mentioned the stories. I saw the BBC today going into all this detail about the weapons. It was disgusting, knowing even then that it was an old story, and watching them put on this patently political show.

In any case, this is a big story, and I feel like rounding up what others have to say about it. I'll do that in a bit.

Ok:

First, Charles puts this weapons cache in perspective and questions Kerry's logic (make sure you see the second comment on the latter post).
Roger Simon points out that the site is ironically named "Al Qaqaa", and has harsh words for the NY Times.
Matt Wretchard has comments. Do read.
I think PoliPundit jumped the shark with their name for this scandal this time
- But one of their readers comes through with an article from the AP through Lexis-Nexus from April 4, 2003 - "U.N. weapons inspectors went repeatedly to the vast al Qa Qaa complex – most recently on March 8 – but found nothing during spot visits to some of the 1,100 buildings at the site 25 miles south of Baghdad."
InstaPundit has a roundup.
More from PoliPundit.