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St. Mary's Convent High school, Mapusa is staging a play titled "Lion King" December 1, 2007 - Hanuman Hall, Mapusa to fundraise for a false ceiling for the school hall & upgrading the school playground Headmistress Sr. Namika A.C. / Teacher Mrs. Sonia Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, investigative reporter Richard Miniter > wrote a well-researched and documented book called > "Disinformation : 22 Media Myths That Undermine the > War on Terror" which is available on Amazon.com and > included a chapter detailing the WMDs that were > found in Iraq. > Exactly two years ago, I had written a post on Goanet exposing the fact that the claims about finding of WMDs in the above book chapter, are completely bogus. Here are pertinent excerpts from my post: "I found out that in regards to the items you had circulated here as the dreaded "WMDs", or "deadly weapons", Miniter has simply copied and pasted news reports from the "liberal" media such as BBC and Washington Post websites, even though he is claiming that the liberal media is spreading disinformation, which he aims to expose. In each case he has C&Ped only one news report. He has made no attempts to check how another, "conservative" perhaps, newspaper reported that story. What is worse is that he has truncated the C&Ped material at strategic points to leave out any caveats, and to leave an impression that one is dealing with a potential WMD. Anybody can google his C&Ped material and retrieve the entire article. If you read the entire article, you find out that none of the original sources in the articles he has excerpted are claiming that the items found were the elusive WMDs. Miniter has not bothered to talk to the original sources, nor has he obtained relevant details from the websites of the military and Governmental entities mentioned in the reports. Here are the specifics about each item: 1. The 1.77 metric tons of low-enriched uranium and the 1000 radioactive materials were the same ones that the USA Today article reported as being sealed and kept under control by IAEA since 1992. They were not the elusive WMDs. Miniter C&Ps a BBC report for this, and says nothing about the USA Today report. 2. The 1500 gallons of chemical actually turned out not to be a chemical weapon in the actual testing that was done. Moreover, this material was produced after the Iraq war i.e. after Bush's "mission" was "accomplished". 3. The one roadside bomb only had traces of sarin. It exploded close to a couple of soldiers who were not harmed in any way. Only two out of the 17 warheads had some traces of cyclosarin. And all of these things were relics of the Iran-Iraq war strewn around or buried in the old battlefield. Neither Miniter's C&Ped job nor any of the news reports that I retrieved claimed that these were the elusive WMDs. My conclusion from this is that at least as far as WMDs are concerned it is Miniter who is spreading disinformation rather than the liberal media." Cheers, Santosh