CNN reports that NBC debunked the misleading New York Times story that the U.S. failed to secure 380 tons of explosives:
NBC said that on April 10, 2003 -- a day after Baghdad fell -- one of its news crews was embedded with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division when the troops arrived at the Al Qaqaa storage facility south of Baghdad.
While the troops found large stockpiles of conventional explosives, they did not find HMX or RDX, the types of powerful explosives that were said to have disappeared, NBC said.
After NBC aired its report, Bush campaign accused Kerry of baseless attacks:
"John Kerry's attacks today were baseless," Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt said Monday night. "He said American troops did not secure the explosives, when the explosives were already missing."
Schmidt also said Kerry "neglects to mention the 400,000 tons of weapons and explosives that are either destroyed or in the process of being destroyed" in Iraq.
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