The Phony Cargo Truck Scam

    Because no one really looked at these tilt-up end dump 5th wheel trailers that have a round bottom from front to back to transport sand, gravel, or construction debris, Secretary Powell could imply the 35 ton cargo trucks were of the type used with a forklift to ferry dangerous WMD out to a hiding place.

One could load pallet cargo onto a 5th. wheel flatbed trailer with a forklift! This is not a flatbed trailer! I have spent over half my life around equipment like those in the picture Secretary Powell relied on. These are not flatbed truck trailers. I know what is there. At best, It seems Powell was kept in the dark and fed mushroom food on this issue.

This is not as simple as it seems as the design of the trailer is against use for transport of WMD munitions. The sides of the 5th wheel trailer are part of the truck bed, there are no sides to remove in order to load the bed using a forklift! These trailers are suited for hauling dirt, gravel or construction debris loaded over the top of such a trailer. There is no part of the trailer that is flat on dump trailers of this design, the whole of the "trailer bed" is of round unibody design incorporating the sides and the bottom into one piece! Cargo would roll around inside such a trailer, and there would be no place to tie down such cargo. Moving any type of palletized cargo in such a manner would be dangerous. Moving WMD munitions within the confines of these rounded trailers would be courting suicide. Even if it were possible to stack WMD inside, how would it be unloaded?

You would not dare to dump it out the end like so much gravel.

The phony shadows

On larger magnification of this image areas around trees are "airbrushed black", as well area around so called forklift. My kid could have done better with a free "paint" program! These poor quality "enhanced shadows" make it look like the time of day is early afternoon or early morning. Building on far left is missing corresponding false shadow to match that on trees and other buildings.

The false Shadows may have been augmented to hide true nature of "forklift" and other objects non comporting to The Secretary of State's presentation.

The Forklift looks like it may very well be a front end loader with a 3 to 5 cubic yard bucket ! No Forklift is of this proportion, but a Front End loader is.

Equipment in this picture is probably either getting ready to haul away some dirt or gravel from near this area, already had done so, or this is nothing more than a construction equipment storage area.

I invite you to save the image below and open up a paint program of your choice, magnify the image 200 to 300 percent. Out will jump the darker than usual shadows with square edges. but there is much more than that shown and not shown. The fact is, this image was photographed much closer to high noon.

Unmodified U.S. State Department image of claimed

I feel it is an image of a front end loader and dump trucks.

Of Treasonous Mention: In case you missed it, the building on far left is missing its shadow. Somebody should supervise the sloppy civilian Neocons in the Pentagon lie factory more carefully before unloading such a low grade pile of fecal matter on the American public and the world. It would be better to have shown no proof than leave such sloppy work lying around for the world to discover.

At least the Gulf of Tonkin Incident stood for decades before McNamara admitted the incident hadn't ever happened.