Why isn’t this getti…

Why isn’t this getting reported as incredible good news by the American press, or hardly anybody at all?

Kuwaiti security authorities have foiled an attempt to smuggle $60 million worth of chemical weapons and biological warheads from Iraq to an unnamed European country, a Kuwaiti newspaper said on Wednesday.

As of right now (noon, October 2nd), there is only 1 web news site reporting this story: The Hindustan Times in India, and it was posted 19 hours ago. The Associated Press sent this out on the wires to all major, medium and even minor news organizations, but the silence is deafening. Here is major potential evidence of WMDs in Iraq, and while the blogosphere is all over this, there’s a mainstream news blackout on it. This is truly amazing.

Of course, when it’s a conservative (like, oh, Rush Limbaugh) saying things that knee-jerkers so desperately want to construe as racist, CNN gives it hourly updates.

UPDATE: Speculation around the blogosphere now is that this is rumor, as some folks with AP feeds aren’t seeing this story. So perhaps I ought to calm down a bit, eh, because, as we all know, the press never reports on rumors. Right?

UPDATE #2: Reuters is running a report where Kuwaiti security sources deny that weapons were siezed; only that archaeological artifacts and “other items” were intercepted. Ah well, you’d think I would have learned when the reports that came out during the war of WMD discoveries turned out to be either false alarms or just rumors. Yup, time to calm down.

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