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Thursday, Oct. 28, 2004 10:38 p.m. EDT

Embeds Filmed Al-Qaqaa Explosives After Invasion

In a development that could impact the presidential race, a Minneapolis TV station is claiming that a news crew it had embedded with the 101st Airborne Division filmed "bunker after bunker" of explosives at Iraq's Al-Qaqaa weapons depot on April 18, 2003.

The video, currently being analyzed by security experts, could lend weight to claims by the New York Times, CBS News and the Kerry campaign that a substantial quantity of explosives disappeared from Al-Qaqaa after the U.S. invasion.

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  Using GPS technology and talking with members of the 101st, "5 Eyewitness News" in Minneapolis said it has determined that its news crew "may have been on the southern edge of the Al-Qaqaa installation, where the ammunition disappeared."

"Members of the 101st Airborne Division showed the 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS news crew bunker after bunker of material labeled 'explosives,'" a report on the station's Web site claimed Thursday.

The report was accompanied by four photos showing what could be the type of explosives that went missing from the weapons depot, though the quantity of bomb material observed and filmed by "Eyewitness News" remains unclear.

The report appears to be at odds with the recollection of former Pfc. Ken Dixon, who was with the 101st Airborne when it arrived at Al-Qaqaa on April 10, 2003.

On Wednesday, Dixon told the Fox News Channel that he had searched two or three bunkers at Al-Qaqaa.

While there were a few boxes inside the bunkers, Dixon recalled, "there was nowhere near what they're saying that came up missing that was inside those bunkers."

Dixon told Nashville radio host Steve Gill that he observed heavy truck tire tracks outside the bunkers, which could indicate prior removal of the explosives in question.

On Thursday the Fox News Channel aired satellite photos taken before the war that showed heavy truck activity around Al-Qaqaa's bunkers.

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